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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 9, 620
Aaron of Alexandria Syriac . He wrote 30 books on medicine
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Sep 9, 1084
First documented hospital in England Canterbury
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Sep 9, 1095
Congregation of the Antonines, was founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease.
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Sep 9, 1248
Ibn al-Baitar wrote on botany and pharmacy and studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine.
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Sep 9, 1284
Mansur hospital of Cairo was built
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1307
John Arderne is an English surgeon
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Sep 9, 1346
black plague killed 75 to 200 million people
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Sep 9, 1500
Paracelsus, an alchemist by trade, rejects occultism and pioneers the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. Burns the books of Avicenna, Galen and Hippocrates
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Sep 9, 1510
pioneered the treatment of gunshot wounds
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Sep 9, 1546
Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable seedlike entities
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Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heart
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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Joseph Priestley discovers nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, ammonia, hydrogen chloride and oxygen
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recognized cowpox which is a deadly disease worse than the small pox
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first small pox vaccination
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First painless surgery with general anesthetic
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First vaccine for cholera
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Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner discovers the existence of different human blood types
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First vaccine for Tuberculosis and tetanus
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Metered Dose Inhaler
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Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
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new viral disease emerged called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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First human liver grown from stem cells in Japan
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first description of the symptoms of smallpox