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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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754
First Pharmacy was Established
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between small pox and measles. -
1200
Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing.
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1300
Eyeglasses were invented to correct vision
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1350
The concept of quarantine was created.
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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1520
scientific method came into place
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1530
Books were written about how the overall approach to medicine and surgery should be
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William Harvey
Made a detailed description and diagram of the heart. -
Robert Hooke
invented the first reflecting microscope -
Studies in human anatomy took place
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Invention of the stethoscope
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Public demonstration was made with ether anesthesia
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Louis Pasteur
Discovered germs and bacteria and how to get rid of them. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
discovered the first X-ray -
Felix Hoffman
Decided that the juice from the willow tree bark would not be effective anymore to reduce pain. -
Period: to
Modern World
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First successful human blood transfusion
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Dr. Paul Dudley White
He became one of America's first cardiologists -
Edward Mellanby
discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets -
AZT is used to combat AIDS
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First vaccine for Hepatitis A
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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment -
The completion of the Human Genome Project identified a complete set of DNA, which lets us have individualized treatments.
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Gardasil was approved by the FDA
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Scientists figure out how to use human skin cells to make embryonic stem cells.
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the first FDA approved implanted heart was surgically placed in a patient
