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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 757
Pharmacy
the first pharmacy was made -
Aug 31, 900
Difference between smallpox and measles discovered.
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Aug 31, 900
Rahzes
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Jan 1, 1305
Eye Glasses
people first started using eye glasses -
Jan 1, 1400
French woman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is den
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Reassurance
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Jan 1, 1519
First full body map.
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoe describes bacteria
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Francus bacon discovers plague flies with a microscope.
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Cataract Surgery
The French ophthalmologist Jacques Daviel (1696–1762) was the first modern European physician to successfully extract cataracts from the eye. He performed the first extracapsular cataract extraction on April 8, 1747. It was the first significant advance in cataract surgery since couching was invented. -
Period: to
Industrial Revelation
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood,
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William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
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Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to the prevent the transmission of puerperal fever
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease.
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Open Heart Surgery
On this date in 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. Dr. Daniel Williams completed the operation on a young man named James Cornish. -
Period: to
Modern world
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Band Aids
The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Thomas Anderson and Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson in Escondido, California for his wife Josephine, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking. The prototype allowed her to dress her wounds without assistance. -
Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough.
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Difference between smallpox and measles discovered.
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First vaccine developed for typhus.
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Period: to
21st Century
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Study Finds Heart, Cancer Risk with Hormone Replacement Therapy
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Stem Cell Research Laboratory Breakthroughs and Some Clinical Advances
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Minimally Invasive and Robotic Techniques Revolutionize Surgery.
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oliver sacks
he studied hes patients.
