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Period: 500 to
The history of medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Jan 26, 1030
One of the most important medical books of its time was written by the physician Avicenna
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for sick
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
The Renaissance
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Jan 27, 1347
an outbreak of Bubonic plague broke out in Istanbul
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Jan 27, 1494
Syphilis was first recorded in Europe when an epidemic broke out among french troops.
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Jan 27, 1543
Andreas Vesalius published an exquistely illustrated anatomy text. He presented the first largely accurate description of the human body.
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Jan 27, 1550
Techniques like tying off arteries to prevent bleeding to death was developed by Ambrose Par`e
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William Harvey published his new theory that the heart acts as a muscular pump which circulates blood around the body in the blood vessels
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Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi identified capillaries which finally showed the link between arteries and veins
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Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Surgery was greatly improved by the discovery of Anestetics.
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The discovery of the anaesthetics ether, chloroform and cocaine allowed surgeons to take more time and care over operations
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Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis
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John Snow stops outbreak of Cholera
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X-rays were discovered by the German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen
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Period: to
The Modern World
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Different human blood types were discovered by Karl Landsteiner
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Alexander Fleming discovers Pencillin
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The last case of naturally-transmitted smallpox was reported in Africa
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A surgical robot was created by Dr Yik San Kwoh
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The first vaccine developed for Hepatitis A.
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Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
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Large hospitals were involved in the training and licensing of doctors and pharmacists.
