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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Oct 17, 659
First Tooth filling
The first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin. -
Jun 20, 900
Rhazes
discovered difference between small pox and measles -
Oct 15, 1140
Medical License introduced
Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license, indicating that doctors were clearly under some form of regulation. -
Jul 18, 1289
Medical school at Montpellier founded
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Jan 1, 1500
Cesarean sections
The first written record of having both a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Nov 10, 1527
Paracelsus
one of the prime movers in the shift away from superstition and dogma in medicine, causing Renaissance physicians to rethink how they approached illness. -
Aug 9, 1550
Ambroise Paré
one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology, and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, -
De Motu Cordis was published
detailed analysis of the overall structure of the heart, going on to an analysis of the arteries, showing how their pulsation depends upon the contraction of the left ventricle -
Bacteria and protists were first observed with a microscope
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Albrecht von Haller
best known for demonstrating the relation of symptoms to lesions and, in addition, he was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. He was the first physician that put thermometer measurements to clinical practice. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Discovered a way to cure small pox by using cow pox on people -
smallpox vaccination became compulsory in Britain.
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Louis Pasteur
He called these germs because they were
germinating, or growing. His theory was that these
germs were causing the decay. -
"Germ Theory" was published
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the bacteria which caused anthrax, a disease in cattle, sheep and sometimes humans.
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Period: to
Modern World
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the wife of the British king took control of the nursing unit of the British army
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Robert Koch
He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis -
Elizabeth Blackwell
the first woman to formally study and practice medicine in the United States. -
Linda Richards
the first professionally trained American nurse. -
bombardment was first diagnosed by British Army doctors
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Period: to
21st Century
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the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public.
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Artificial liver was invented
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Abiocor artificial heart invented
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Ortho McNeil invented birth control patch
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Dr. Ian Frazer
developed HPV vaccination
