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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1301
Middle Ages
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659
Dental Amalgams
Medieval China made the first method for tooth fillings -
750
Islamic medicine
First recorded Islamic Medicine -
754
The first pharmacy
The first pharmacy's were established in Baghdad -
910
Rhazes
Persian physician is the first to identify smallpox -
960
Leprosy.
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1231
Shift of Medical Education into Universities
Frederick II promulgated a set of law that promoted medical education standards -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1377
Quarantine
The city of Ragusa issued orders to combat the plague by making ships wait 30 days in the harbor before they dock to make sure no one was infected -
1489
Human dissection
Leonardo da Vinci starts to dissect corpses and records it -
1514
Andreas Vesalius one of the most well-know anatomist of his time
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1543
Human Anatomy
Vesalius published finding in De Fabrica Corporis Humani -
1543
Page from the De humani corporis fabrica,
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First microscope
Zacharius Jannssen invents the first microscope -
Discovery of white blood cells
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered blood cells -
Bacteria
Anton van Leeuwenhoek studied bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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First smallpox vaccine
Benjamin Waterhouse introduces the smallpox vaccine to the United states -
Anesthetic
Sir Humphry Davy discovers the properties of nitrous oxide -
Invention of the stethoscope
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope -
Childbed fever
Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the prevention and also the cause of puerperal -
Patent electric-medical machine
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Robert Koch discovered the bacteria that causes Tuberculosis
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Appendicitis
Reginald Heber Fitz provided the first clinical description of appendicitis -
Period: to
Modern World
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Band-aid
Earle Dickson made the band-aid -
Insulin
insulin used to treat diabetes -
First blood bank
Bernard Fantus founded the first blood bank in Chicago -
Dialysis unit built from a washing machine
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DNA molecule
Francis Crick and James Watson work on the structure of the DNA molecule -
First version of the oxygenator
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Leukemia-fighting drug
Gertrude Elion made a leukemia fighting drug -
Human Genome
First draft of human genome was announced -
Period: to
21st Century
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Adaptive Artificial
The first Rheo knee was made -
Artificial liver
Dr. Colin McGucklin and Dr. Nico Forraz of Newcastle university a liver growth from stem cells -
Artificial liver
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3D printed body parts
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3D body part
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Gene therapy
Modifying someones's DNA to treat disease
