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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Feb 3, 900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between small pox and measels -
Aug 7, 1256
Theodoric Borgognoni
Came up with an antiseptic method where wounds were to be cleaned and the sutured to promote healing. He also pre-soaked bandages in wine as a form of disinfectant. -
Aug 21, 1272
Pharmacies
Pharmacist prepared compounded medications as prescribed and ordered by the prescribing physician. -
Mar 9, 1315
Mondino le Luzzi
Conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators. A year later he wrote Anathomia corporis humani which is considered an example of the first dissection manual and the first true anatomical text. -
Jun 5, 1387
Hospitals
They were a place where patients would be treated by doctors that had access to specialized equipment. They were also meant to provide care and lodgings for the poor and travelers. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Nov 28, 1537
Cure
It was discovered that if you drink mercury that was a cure for the deadly disease syphilis. -
Mar 5, 1546
Andreas Vesalius
Dissected human bodies and made detailed drawings of everything increasing the knowledge of anatomy exponentially helping physicians to understand the body. -
Jul 6, 1564
Dissection
Churches allowed the dissection of criminals while some of them were awake and some dead the audience would watch and learn how to perform dissections. -
Gods Treatment
Sickness was regarded as sent by God to punish wickedness and try faith or sent by the devil with permission from God. God also was responsible for healing the body. -
Blood
Blood circulated the body changing medical practice and sounded the death knell for the harmful of blood-letting by barber surgeons. It also showed that the body contained specialized systems with different functions, which all worked together to allow life. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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King Cholera
This was a greatly feared disease, and it was greatly contaminated by the usage of water and spread very fast. -
Health of Towns Association
This group was founded in 1844 which was a result of s survey done between unsanitary conditions, disease, and pauperism. -
Anaesthetics
This was first used when one a dental procedure when the patient said he didn't feel any pain. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She was not into medicine, she didn't even want to come close to a medicine book then her friend told her that she would have sparred her worst suffering if her physician would have been a woman. She then decided to go into medicine. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
He discovered the x-ray which one known to be one of the most dramatic breakthroughs in the field of medicine -
Period: to
Modern World
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Paul Dudley White
Hes one of the first Americans cardiologist. -
Peg Legs
They were usually jammed up into the hollow-out cavities of an amputees leg or strapped to the patients waist. They could walk miles without feeling a single pain of discomfort. -
James Watson and Francis Crick
They describe the structure of a DNA molecule -
First Kidney Transplant
Dr.Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant on identical twins. -
Artificial Heart in a Dog
Implant the first artificial heart on a dog on survives 90 minutes. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
Used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. -
Gardasil
A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA. -
HPV
The first HPV was approved. -
FDA
They approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient. -
Human Liver
The first human liver was grown from stem cells in Japan.
