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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1500
Dark Ages
Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited -
Period: Jan 1, 1452 to Jan 1, 1519
Leonardo Da Vinci
The artist who used dissection to draw the human body -
Jan 1, 1559
Reoldo Colombo
Described the circulation of blood through the lungs in detail -
Girolamo Fabrico
studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heart -
William Harvey
Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Developed the polio vaccine -
Independence Day
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Edward Jenner
Developed a vaccine for smallpox -
Gregory Mendel
Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens -
Josheph Lister
Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery -
Florence Nightengale
Founder of modern nursing -
Civil War
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Clara Barton
Found the American Red Cross -
Louis Pasteur
Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria -
William Roentgen
discovered X-rays -
Marie Curie
Isolated Radium -
WW1
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Influenza
The spread of influenza that killed over 60,000 americans and about 3 million people world wide -
Diptheria
First vaccination of Diptheria -
Tuberculosis
First vaccination of tuberculosis -
Sir Alexander Flenning
Discovered Penisciline -
WW2
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Robert Briggs and Thomas King
Cloning - the discovery and the research -
Jonas Stalk
Developed the polio vaccine -
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Rhazes
An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for sutre material
