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500
Hildegarde von Bingin
First women to discuss plants and their relation with medicine -
500
Treatments
Treatments usually revolved around plants and herbs -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 2, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between small pox and mussels -
Jan 2, 1000
Monasteries
Christian monasteries were founded to treat the ill -
Jan 2, 1489
Leonardo da Vinci
He dissected the first corpses -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Jan 2, 1515
Human Anatomy
People began dissecting human cadavers and becoming more knowledgeable on the human body and its anatomy. -
Microscope
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He discovers blood cells -
Francis Bacon
Discovered the plague fleas -
Claudius Amyand
He preformed the 1st successful appendectomy. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Develops the first vaccination for smallpox... 1st vaccine for any disease. -
James Blundell
He preformed the 1st successful human blood transfusion -
Rabies
1st vaccine was created for rabies -
Contacts
1st contact lenses were developed -
Felix Hoffmen
He developed the 1st aspirin -
Period: to
Modern World
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Blood Classification
Karl Landsteiner introduced the blood classification system. (A, B, AB, O) -
Insulin
Insulin was 1st used to treat diabetes -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
He preformed the 1st kidney transplant -
Chicken Pox
The first vaccine was invented -
Hepatitis B
The first vaccine was created for it -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human Genome
First rough draft of the human genome was announced -
Artificial Heart
World's first self- contained artificial heart was implanted. -
Dr. Bernard Devauchelle
He preformed the first face transplant on a living person -
1st cancer treatment
First vaccine to target was created -
1st Artificial Kidney
The FDA approved the 1st human clinical trial for the 1st artificial kidney.
