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500
Rhazes
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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754
Pharmacies
The first pharmacy was opened in 754 in Baghdad. Pharmacies could be found in Europe in the 12th century -
1140
Licensing
Physicians were no longer able to practice medicine without a license. -
1363
Guy de Chauilac
Considered one of the most influential Doctors in the Middle Ages.
Wrote Chirugia Magna that was used as the standard for surgery for 300 years -
1377
Quarentine
Quarentines were used to help control the spread of diseases, like the Black Plague. -
1440
Printing Press
The invention of the printing press made spreading knowledge about infections and anatomy easier -
1500
Blood Letting
Blood letting was a common practice during the Renaissance period for treating illnesses -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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1543
Vesalius
Vesalius published a book in 1543 that illustrated and described human anatomy based on his observations from dissecting cadavers -
1545
Ambroise Paré
Paré revived the concept of tying arteries to stop blood loss in amputations. Paré also designed an artificial hand with moving fingers -
Blood Transfusion
The earliest known blood transfusion is attempted. 1665 The first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in England: Physician Richard Lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner invented the vaccine for small pox. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Anesthetic
One of the truly great moments in the long history of medicine occurred on a tense fall morning in the surgical amphitheater of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. It was there October 16, 1846, that a dentist named William T.G.Morton administrated an effective anesthetic to a surgical patient. -
Discovery of X Ray
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was the first person to see an x ray while he was testing to see if a cathode ray could pass thru glass -
Invention of Aspirin
Scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer began investigating acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines, and identified a new way to synthesize it -
Period: to
Modern World
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Vaccine for Diptheria
The first successful vaccine for diphtheria was developed in 1913 by Emil von Behring -
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician-scientist who was recognized for discovering penicillin. The simple discovery and use of the antibiotic agent has saved millions of lives, and earned Fleming – together with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, who devised methods for the large-scale isolation and production of penicillin – the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine -
Pacemaker
The first clinical implantation into a human of a fully implantable pacemaker was in 1958 at the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden, using a pacemaker designed by Rune Elmqvist and surgeon Åke Senning, connected to electrodes attached to the myocardium of the heart by thoracotomy. -
Hepatitis B Vaccine
The first hepatitis B vaccine was approved in the United States in 1981 -
Cloning
Dolly was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. -
Jean-Michel Dubernard
Dr.Jean-Michel Dubernard is most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on 23 September 1998. -
Period: to
21st Century
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The Human Genome Project Draft
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. -
First HPV Vaccine approved
The first HPV vaccine became available in 2006 -
Jacques Marescaux
On April 2, 2007, Jacques Marescaux is believed to be the first in the world to operate a person without leaving a scar, removing the gallbladder of a patient older than 30 years without making incision of the skin and through a natural orifice. -
Kidney
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have made functioning rat kidneys in the lab and transplanted them into the rodents, where the bioengineered organs filtered blood and produced urine, -
Human liver grown
Scientists at a The Saban Research Institute of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles created a liver using stem and progenitor cells obtained from human and mouse livers the researchers generated the so-called liver organoid units (LOU) which were later implanted into mice
