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3000 BCE
Aurveda
Ayurveda medicine, is a system of medicine with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.[2] Globalized and modernized practices derived from Ayurveda traditions are a type of complementary or alternative medicine.[3][4] In the Western world, Ayurveda therapies and practices have been integrated in general wellness applications and in some cases in medical use.[5] -
1800 BCE
Code of Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a seven and a half foot stone stele and various clay tablets. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1000
Middle ages
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525
Alexander of Tralles
Alexander of Tralles in Lydia (or Alexander Trallianus, c. 525 – c.605) was one of the most eminent of the ancient physicians. -
550
Aëtius of Amida
Aëtius of Amida fl. mid-5th century to mid-6th century) was a Byzantine Greek physician and medical writer,[1][2] particularly distinguished by the extent of his erudition.[3] Historians are not agreed about his exact date. He is placed by some writers as early as the 4th century; but it is plain from his own work that he did not write till the very end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th, as he refers not only to Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, who died 444,[4] -
630
Paul of Aegina
Nothing is known about his life, except that he was born in the island of Aegina, and that he travelled a good deal, visiting, among other places, Alexandria.[1] He is sometimes called Iatrosophistes and Periodeutes, a word which probably means a physician who travelled from place to place in the exercise of his profession. -
Period: Jan 1, 1001 to
Renaissance
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1519
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci made many contributions in the fields of science and technology. -
1564
Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius was a Flemish-born anatomist whose dissections of the human body helped to rectify the misconceptions made in Ancient Times, particularly by Galen, -
Ambroise Paré
Paré was a French surgeon, anatomist and an inventor of surgical instruments. -
Siege of Kinsale
The Siege or Battle of Kinsale was the ultimate battle in England's conquest of Gaelic Ireland, commencing in October 1601, near the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and at the climax of the Nine Years War—a campaign by Hugh O'Neill, Hugh Roe O'Donnell and other Irish lords against English rule. -
Battle of the Boyne
The Battle of the Boyne (Irish: Cath na Bóinne IPA: [ˈkah n̪ˠə ˈbˠoːn̪ʲə]) was a battle in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II of England, and those of Dutch Prince William of Orange who, with his wife Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland[b] in 1688. -
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Industrial Revolution
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Edmund Cartwright
English inventor, and member of the Anglican clergy. Cartwright invented the power loom which significantly increased the efficiency of textile production. He also developed a wool combing machine. -
Karl Marx
Marx saw the industrial revolution as being a stage in the eventual struggle and triumph of the Proletariat. Marx felt it was a historical inevitability that the oppressed workers of industrial states would eventually revolt against the capitalist class. -
Friedrich Engels
German social scientist and political activist. His work, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844), explained the dire conditions of the workers caught up in the industrial revolution. In 1848, he co-authored the ‘Communist Manifesto’ with Karl Marx. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian biologist and physician and immunologist.[2] He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937, thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient's life. With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909. -
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Modern World
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.[3] In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains particularly in the back, and headaches.[3] Symptoms typically improve within five days.[3] In about 15% of people within a day of improving, the fever comes back, abdominal pain occurs, and liver damage begins causing yellow skin.[3][6] If this occurs, the risk of bleeding and kidney problems is also increased. -
William Grey Walter
Grey Walter's most famous work was his construction of some of the first electronic autonomous robots.He wanted to prove that rich connections between a small number of brain cells could give rise to very complex behaviors - essentially that the secret of how the brain worked lay in how it was wired up. His first robots, which he used to call Machina speculatrix and named Elmer and Elsie, were constructed between 1948 and 1949 -
Hepatitis B vaccine
Hepatitis B vaccine is a vaccine that prevents hepatitis B.[1] The first dose is recommended within 24 hours of birth with either two or three more doses given after that.[1] This includes those with poor immune function such as from HIV/AIDS and those born premature.[1] In healthy people routine immunization results in more than 95% of people being protected.[1] -
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis refers to the genetic profiling of embryos prior to implantation (as a form of embryo profiling), and sometimes even of oocytes prior to fertilization. PGD is considered in a similar fashion to prenatal diagnosis. When used to screen for a specific genetic disease, its main advantage is that it avoids selective pregnancy termination as the method makes it highly likely that the baby will be free of the disease under consideration. -
Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. It remains the world's largest collaborative biological project. After the idea was picked up in 1984 by the US gov when the planning started, the project formally launched in 1990 and was declared complete in 2003. -
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21st Century
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Carlo Urbani
Carlo Urbani (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo urˈbaːni]; Castelplanio, Italy October 19, 1956 – Bangkok, Thailand March 29, 2003) was an Italian doctor and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a new and dangerously contagious viral disease. -
Jean-Michel Dubernard
Dr. Dubernard is most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on 23 September 1998, the first successful double hand transplant shortly thereafter (but not announced until 14 January 2004), and assisting Prof. Bernard Devauchelle in performing the first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire on 27 November 2005. -
HPV vaccines
Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines are vaccines that prevent infection by certain types of human papillomavirus.[1] Available vaccines protect against either two, four, or nine types of HPV. -
Laurent Lantieri
Professor Laurent Lantieri, M.D. is a French plastic surgeon who is a pioneer in the field of face transplantation. He performed the first[1] second[2] and third[3] full face transplants. References[edit]
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