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Period: 500 BCE to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 754
First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754. -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
discovered the difference between small pox and Measles. -
Jan 1, 1000
1000
christian monasteries founded to treat the ill. -
Jan 1, 1315
Anatomy and Dissection
In the year 1315 the Italian physician Mondino de Luzzi conducted a public dissection for his students and his spectators. The following year he would write Anathomia Corporis Humani, which is considered the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical text. -
Jan 1, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Scientific Method
The use of the scientific method begins. -
Robert Hooke
Reflective microscope. -
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
The Small Pox vaccine, The first successful vaccine to be developed was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. -
William Morton
William Morton invents the anesthetic. -
John Snow
John Snow stops outbreak of cholera. -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered the first rabies vaccine -
X-ray
Before x ray machines were invented, broken bones, tumors and the location of bullets were all diagnosed by physical examination and a doctor's best guess. Patients paid the price of these approaches. Then on November 8th of 1895, a German physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen made a remarkable discovery. -
1900-1909
Bubonic Plague hits San Fransisco -
Period: to
Modern World
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Earle Dickinson
Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921. His wife Josephine Dickson was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food. At that time a bandage consisted of separate gauze and adhesive tape that you would cut to size and apply yourself. -
1930-1960
First HMO insurance. -
Salk
Salk discovers Polio vaccine. -
1980
WHO declares smallpox eradicated. -
Steve Thomas
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. -
Period: to
21st Century
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2004
The completion of the Human Genome Project identified a complete set of DNA, which allows for new and completely individualized medications and treatments. -
Gardasil
Gardasil a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA -
2007
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
2009
The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24. Patient died on August 23.
