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500
Alcmaeon
Distinguished veins from arteries -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discoverd difference between meseals and small pox. -
1010
Avicenna
Wrote The book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine -
1140
Roger of Sicily
He forbade anyone to practice medicine without a license. -
1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectacles which allowed for people to see farther or closer away objects. -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Leonardo Da Vinci
The first dissection of a corpse. -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invented the first microscope -
Sir Christopher Wren
Expiremented with canine blood transfusions. -
Reflective Microscope
It allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered blood cells. -
Observing Bacteria
Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Louis Pasteur
Identifies germs as cause of disease. -
Anthrax Vaccine
Developed by Louis Pasteur. -
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Discovered the first X-rays. -
Bubonic Pleague Vaccine
The first vaccine developed for the Bubonic Pleague. -
Felix Hoffman
Develops asprin. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Selman A. Waksman
Discovered the antibiotic streptomycin. -
Paul Zoll
Develops the first cardiac pacemaker -
James Watson and Francis Crick
Work on structure of the DNA molecule. -
Gertrude Elion
Patented a leukemia- fighting drug. -
Jonas Salk
Develops the first polio vaccine. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Tuberculosis Treatment
multidrug- resistant tuberculosis treatment. -
Cancer Causing Vaccine
First vaccine to target the cause of cancer. -
Enhancer Transcription
Led by Michael Greenberg, found that helps environmental stimuli activate certain selections of DNA. -
Hematopoietic Stem Cells
extending the possibility of transplantation to patients for whom a donor cannot be identified. -
Rhematoid Arthritis
Studying cell samples from patients with rhematoid arthritis.
