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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the differences between smallpox and measles -
1010
Avicenna
Writes the Book of Healing and the Canon of Medicine -
1249
Roger Bacon
Invents spectacles -
1260
Louis IX
Established Les Quinze-vingt. Originally a retreat for the blind, it became a hospital for eye diseases, and is now one of the most important medical centers in Paris. -
1275
Mondino de Luzzi "Mundinus"
Carried out the first systematic human dissections since Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos 1500 years earlier. -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1489
Corpses are dissected
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Microscope is invented.
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Printing press
Allowed for publication of medical discoveries -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Observes bacteria. -
Francis Bacon
Uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
Giacomo Pylarini
gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Claudius Aymand
Performs the first successful appendectomy -
Edward Jenner
Develops the process of vaccination for smallpox -
The stethoscope is invented.
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First contact lenses are developed
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Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner
Introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Insulin is first used to treat diabetes
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Alexander Fleming
Discovers penicillin -
First vaccine developed for influenza
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Willem J. Kolff
Invents the artificial kidney dialysis machine -
Period: to
21st Century
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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First draft of human genome is announced
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc.
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George Church
He successfully use the "revived" DNA of an extinct mammoth to sequence the mammoth's complete genome. -
Thomas Manning
First man to receive a penis transplant
