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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and small pox. -
Jan 20, 1010
The Book of Healing
Avicenna from Persia wrote, The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine. -
Mar 18, 1084
Hospital
First documented hospital in England. -
Sep 8, 1249
Roger Bacon
Invented spectacles for treating long sightedness. -
May 12, 1260
Blind Retreat
Louis XI established a retreat for the blind that became a hospital for eye disease and is now one of the most important medical centers in Paris. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1300
Spectacles
Concave lenses spectacles to treat near- sightedness. -
Sep 11, 1347
An outbreak of Bubonic Plaugue broke out in...
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Sep 11, 1578
William Harvey
English medical doctor physicist. -
Zacharius Jannssen
Invents the microscope, -
Anton Van Leewenhoak
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch scientist who discovered blood cells. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for smallpox. -
Code of Hammurbi
Sets out fees for surgeons and punishments for malpractice. -
James Blundell
Preform the first successful transfusion of human blood. -
Emil von Behring
Discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. -
Wilhelm Von Roentgen
Discovered X-rays. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Dr. Paul Dudley White
America's first cardiologist. -
Edward Mellanby
Discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets. -
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
preforms the first kidney transplant between identical twins. -
Dr. William DeVries
Implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days. -
The FDA
Approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technoloogie...
