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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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Feb 2, 659
Tooth Fillings
One of the most important contributions to medicine from medieval China was amalgams for dental procedures and the first use of a substance for tooth fillings. -
Feb 2, 752
The First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad -
Feb 2, 910
Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
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Feb 2, 1140
Roger of Sicily
Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license, indicating that doctors were clearly under some form of regulation. -
Feb 2, 1249
Roger Bacon
invents spectacles (glasses) -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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Feb 2, 1510
Ambroise Paré
helped lay the foundations for modern forensic pathology and surgery. -
Feb 2, 1546
Girolamo Fracastoro
He was the first doctor to have suggested that human diseases may be caused by pathogens. -
William Harvey
an English doctor, was the first person to properly describe the systemic circulation and properties of blood, and how the heart pumps it around the body. -
The Black Death
the Black Death killed 20 percent of the population of London. -
Blood Cells Were Discovered
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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first successful appendectomy
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Smallpox Vaccine Was Created
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First Successful Vaccine
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Quinine was found and used to treat malaria
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
discovers X rays -
Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine developed for tuberculosis
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Sir Alexander Fleming
discovers penicillin and penicillin is an antibiotic that fights infections caused by bacteria -
John Hopps
invented the first cardiac pacemaker -
Period: to
21st Century
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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A "mini-liver¨
A mini-liver the size of a small coin is generated from human cord blood stem cells by doctors at Newcastle University, U.K. -
Stem Cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
woolly mammoth
DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the revived DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome. -
Thomas Manning
is the first man to receive a penis transplant
