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400
Greeks (BCE)
Hippocrates was born in this era -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
All medical science was stopped for almost 1000 years -
460
Hippocrates Birth
Known as "Father of Medicine" -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1492
Magic and Faith
remedies, magic, healing, anyone could practice -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Rennaissance
Known as the Rebirth of Science -
America Declared Indepandance
First Fourth of July -
Stethescope Invented
Rene Laennec -
First Practical Anesthetic Introduced
a drug that causes anesthesia—reversible loss of sensation -
First woman Doctor
Elizabeth Blackwell -
Red Cross Founded
Clara Barton was the founder in 1881 -
Contact lenses invented
Leonardo da Vinci is frequently credited with introducing the idea of contact lenses in his 1508 Codex of the eye, Manual D -
X-Ray Discovered
1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen -
Asprin Introduced
used to relieve minor aches and pains, as an antipyretic to reduce fever, and as an anti-inflammatory medication. -
Isolated Radium
Marie Curie -
Period: to
WW1
World War I was a miserable and bloody affair. In less than a year the American armed forces suffered more than 318,000 casualties -
Influenza
Killed 675,000 -
Tuberculosis Vaccine discovered
common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria -
Penicillin Discovered
Discovered penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming -
Period: to
WWII
global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the majority of the world's nations -
Developed Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk -
Birth Control Pill introduced
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World's first heart transplant surgury
Christian Bernard -
First test tube baby born
Louise Brown -
AIDS is Identified
(HIV/AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -
Scientists Clone
Sheep named "Dolly" -
Vaccine Smallpox
developed vaccine in 1796 by Edward Jenner
