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100
Egyptians, 3500-500
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100
Greeks, 400 BCE
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Period: 410 to Jan 1, 1000
Dark Ages
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Jan 1, 1400
Rebirth of science
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Jan 1, 1400
Medical schools built
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Jan 1, 1400
Printing press made books possible
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Jan 1, 1400
Accepted study of body by dissection
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance
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Oct 8, 1500
Andreus Versalius and Da Vinci dissected human bodies
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Oct 8, 1500
William Harvey described the cirulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
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Oct 8, 1500
Anton von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope
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Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope
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Vaccine for smallpox invented
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Joseph Lister first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision
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Louis Pasteur rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria
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Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor
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Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays
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Egyptians, 3500-500 BCE
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Marie Curie isolated radium
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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Jonas Salk developed polio vaccine
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Christian Bernard, performed the world's first heart transplant surgery
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Louise Brown, first test tube baby
