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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
middle ages
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Jan 1, 910
middle ages
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox -
Jan 1, 1010
middle ages
Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
Jan 1, 1150
middle ages
Hildegard von Bingen
draft about natural and healing -
Jan 1, 1200
middle ages
the Book of Optics, would be considered the most important research in the field for hundreds of years. -
Jan 1, 1249
middle ages
Roger Bacon invents spectacles -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
renaissance
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Jan 1, 1489
renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses -
Jan 1, 1560
renaissance
the microscope is invented -
renaissance
Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions -
renaissance
blood cells are discovered -
renaissance
Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria -
Industrial Revolution
Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York. -
Industrial Revolution
A dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide. -
Industrial Revolution
First contact lenses developed -
Industrial Revolution
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin -
Period: to
modern world
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modern world
Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
modern world
First vaccine developed for measles -
modern world
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans. -
modern world
First vaccine developed for hepatitis A -
modern world
Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone -
21st century
scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public. -
Period: to
21st century
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21st century
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
21st century
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
21st century
DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. -
21st century
The success of an first-time experimental surgery will determine future availability for U.S. cancer patients and veterans with injuries to the pelvic region.
