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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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740
Pharmacies in Baghdad
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between small pox and measles -
1300
Islamic hospitals for the sick
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1305
Glasses are made
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Jul 30, 1340
Black Plague
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1400
French woman Jacoba Felicie trys to practice medicine but is denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissances
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1520
Niccolo Leaniceno found 400 errors in Pliny's Natural History
Pliny's Natural History was the main medical teachings book -
The use of the scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke - Reflective Microscope
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Antonie von Leewenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon
used microscope to discover plague fleas -
Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination
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Period: to
Industrial Revoultion
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Chicken pox vaccination
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Louis Pasteur cures Cholera, Anthrax and Rabies
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1st stethoscope was invented by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
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Joseph Lister medical practice of asepsis
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Robert Koch - discovery of pathogens
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Karl Landsteiner creates blood typing system
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Period: to
Modern World
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovers vitamins
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1st successful blood transfusion
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Dr. Paul Dudley White Americas first Cardiologist
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Insulin is first used to treat diabetes
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Targeted cancer therapies a cure for some cancers
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Period: to
21 Century
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scientists completed a draft of the human Genome
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greater understanding of stem cells
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HIV cocktail cure
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Hugh Herr co-creator of the new prosthetic leg
