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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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659
Dental Amalgams
One of the most important meds was Amalgams for dental procedures. -
754
Pharmacies
First Pharmacy was made in Baghdad. -
900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
1200
ophthalmology and optics
ancient writers believed people could see by invisible beams of light -
1300
Joannes Actuarius
He was a Byzantine physician in Constantinople. -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1400
Tobacco use
Tobacco was used for cough(female disease) -
1500
cesarean sections
Cesarean sections were used some times but ended because a mother died with no chance of survival along with the baby. -
1530
Girolamo Mercuriale
He was a Italian philologist. -
1551
Alcohol for digestion
booze were used for digestion meds -
William Harvey
He was an English physician -
Ear wax is a cure
It was used as a cure for migrains -
printing press
allowed for publication of medical discoveries. -
Period: to
Revolution
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transfusion of human blood
The first ever successful transfusion of human blood was during the revolution -
Florence Nightingale
worked to formal education founded by modern nursing -
Joseph Lister
founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine -
cholera
first vaccine for cholera was made -
rabies
first vaccine for rabies was made -
Period: to
Modern world
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Dr. Paul Dudley
pioneers the use of a ECG -
whooping cough
first vaccine for a whooping cough -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He discovered penicillin -
influenza
First vaccine for influenza was made -
John Hopps
he invented the first cardiac pacemaker -
Dr. Virgina
The first female full professor at Columbia university of physicians and surgeons. -
Period: to
21st century
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cancer
first vaccine to target cancer -
HIV
Doctors believe a HIV patient was cured by a bone marrow transplant -
Dr.Zora
One of the best doctors for burn victims -
locate tumors
using liquid biopsies to locate tumors.
