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500 BCE
Alcmaeon Imhotep
Extinguished veins from arteries. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Sep 1, 754
Pharmacy
The first pharmacy was established -
Sep 8, 900
Rhazes
Persian doctor who discovered difference between small pox and measles -
Apr 5, 931
Hospital
Large hospitals were in charge of training and and licencing doctors and pharmacists. -
Apr 10, 931
Medicine
Medicine was tested by pharmacists and prescriptions were made sure they were being made correctly. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Mar 7, 1347
Bubonic Plague
Disease that broke out and was a difficult disease to find medicine to cure it. -
Bacteria
Discovery of bacteria -
William Harvey
Published a theory saying the heart was a muscular pump that circulates blood around the body in the veins -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Meds Found
Anesthetic Ether and Chloroform were discovered. -
Humphrey Davy
Discovered anesthesia -
Living conditions
18-19th century, people were living in dirty and crowded areas. Without clean water to drink and had poor sanitation. -
X-ray
X-ray was discovered -
Wilhelm Roentgen
German Physicist that discovered the X-ray. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Life expectancy
in 1901 the life expectancy was 47. in 2001 it was 77. -
Jonas Salk
The developed the first polio -
Small Pox
Last naturally transmitted small pox disease was in 1977 -
Mumps
First vaccination for Mumps -
End of Small Pox
The announcement of the end of small pox
