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500
Difference between smallpox and measles discovered
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Aug 31, 754
First pharmacy built in Baghdad
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Dec 6, 805
Harun Al-Rashid
Built the first general hospital in Baghdad -
Dec 6, 1328
Black Death
235 million people died in total due to this disease that caused them to have painful swelling in the lymph nodes and other symptons, There was no treatment. -
Aug 31, 1500
First written record of having both the mother and child survive a c-section
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Renaissance
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Feb 9, 1527
Paracelsus
Cured a leg infection without amputation. -
Dec 6, 1536
Started using ligatures to tie arteries during amputations, so patients didn't bleed to death.
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Dec 6, 1536
Pare discovered wounds healed better if treated with egg yolk and rose oil.
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Use of Scientific method begins
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William Harvey
Identified the difference between arteries and veins. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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First stethoscope invented
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Florence NIghtingale
founded modern nursing -
Willhelm Roentgen
discovered x-rays and first nobel prize in physics -
Joseph Lister
First to introduce antiseptic surgery. -
Production of aspirin
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Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Introduced 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 whooping cough
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First test-tube baby is born.
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Smallpox is eradicated
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Period: to
21st Century
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scientists completed a draft sequencing of the human genome.
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First partial face transplant was done in Amiens, France
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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scientists showed adult cells can be "turned back" into stem cells.
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Thomas Manning
First man to receive a genital transplant
