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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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659
Dental Amalgam
Medieval China created the creations of amalgam for dental procedures. The first substance used for teeth fill was sliver and tin. -
754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy that appeared was in Baghdad. A physician said that a pharmacy are “the art of knowing the materia medica simples in their various species, types and shapes. From these, the pharmacist prepares compounded medications as prescribed and ordered by the prescribing physician.” They soon became really popular in the Arabic World. Then soon spread to Europe by the 12th century. -
800
Hospitals
The first ideas of hospitals started to show up in Arabic Worlds. The larger the city they would have dozens of physicians. Also they had many ward for different illness. -
900
Rhazes
determined the difference between small pox and measles -
1300
Cleaning wounds
The first idea of cleaning wounds were that you leave some pus in the wound to help them heal, but soon in the 13th century Theodoric Borgognoni found a new method. Antiseptic method were you clean the wound and then sutured to promote healing. Also he created anesthetic for during surgeries. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1322
Jacoba Felice
She was a french physician, she was put on trail because she didn't have a license while practicing medicine. Even though she help many people they didn't want to give her a license because she is a women. -
1489
Leonardo Da Vinci
Was the person who made dissecting human bodies a thing -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invented first telescope -
Printing Press
Allowed for publications of medical discoveries -
Circulatory system
William Harvey discovered the circulatory system and explained how it acted like a muscle and it contracted. -
Smallpox Inoculations
Given to public to prevent smallpox -
Period: to
Industrial Revoluion
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Vaccine
First vaccine to be used, the vaccine was used for smallpox -
Louis Pasteur
Identifies germs as cause of disease. -
Bubonic Plague Vaccine
The first vaccine developed for the Bubonic Plague -
Felix Hoffman
Made the first asprin -
Period: to
Modern World
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Band Aid
Helped with bleeding -
Alexander Fleming
Discovered Penicillin -
HIV
Identified as a Virus, associated to AIDS -
Gertrude Elion
Made a leukemia fighting drug -
Human Heart
First human heart transplant happened this year. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Face Transplant
First ever face transplant was successful during that year. -
Cancer Vaccine
First vaccine to target the cause of cancer -
Smoking
No smoke laws and campaigns reduced public smoking to reduce death and failure to the lungs. -
Bionic Limbs
Advanced prosthetic leg that communicates with the users mind -
Hematopoietic Stem Cells
extending the possibility of transplant to patients for whom a donor cannot be identified -
Nora
Shows that addiction is a disease and not a moral failure
