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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 14, 900
Discovered the difference between small pox and measles.
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Jan 14, 1010
The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine are written.
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May 11, 1249
Spectacles are invented.
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Feb 13, 1300
Islamic hospitals;health care for the sick.
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Mar 14, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
She was a French women who tried to practice medicine but was denied. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Renaissance
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Use of the scientific method begins.
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Plant cells are discovered , while using a reflective microscope.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
describes bacteria. -
Plague fleas are discovered by using a microscope.
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The first successful appendectomy happend.
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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1st vaccination is discovered.
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The importance of hand washing is shown.
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John Snow
stops the outbreak of cholera. -
X-rays are discovered.
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Science of radioactivity is discovered.
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming
discovers penicillin. -
Polio vaccine is discovered.
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Small pox is eradicated.
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AZT is used to combat AIDS.
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First vaccine for hepatitis A is developed.
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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
He used sterile maggots for the infectious wound treatment. -
Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient.
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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..
