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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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754
Pharmacies
The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad -
1200
Cleaning Wounds
and Italian surgeon came up with an antiseptic method in which they would clean wounds and use sutures to help the healing process -
Jan 4, 1249
Roger Bacon
Invents glasses -
1315
Mondino de Luzzi
published the first true text about anatomy and preformed a dissection for his students -
1346
Black Death
A pandemic spread over Eurasia and Europe, killing and estimated 75-200 million people. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Renaissance
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Zacharius Jannssen
Invents the microscope -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
discovered blood cells -
Giacomo Pylarini
gives the first smallpox vaccination -
Citrus Fruits
Citrus fruits prevent scurvy -
Appendectomy
first successful appendectomy procedure -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Stethescope
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope -
James Parkinson
discovered Parkinson´s disease -
Blood Tansfusion
James Blundell performed the very first successful blood transfusion -
Charles Bariel Pravaz and Alexander Wood
They developed the syringe -
Rabies Vaccination
first rabies vaccination developed by Louis Pasteur -
Period: to
Modern World
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Yellow Fever
The first vaccine was developed for yellow fever -
John Hopps
invented the first cardiac pace maker -
Leukemia
Gertrude Ellion patented a leukemia-fighting drug -
Jonas Salk
makes the first polio vaccine -
HIV
this virus was identified -
Period: to
21st Century
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Cancer
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer -
Mini Liver
a liver the size of a small coin was generated from human cord blood stem cells -
Gero Heutter
He is a doctor from Berlin and he was able to cure a person with HIV and leukemia by using bone marrow from a patient that is immune to HIV -
Face Transplant
Full transplant of someone´s face occurred in Spain by 30 surgeons -
Artificial Liver and Kidney
Artificial liver and kidney was grown in Japan
