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Oct 9, 1340
black death
over 70 million deaths from this awful disease. -
Oct 8, 1400
The renaissance
Rebirth of science: time when the middle ages ended & people started to explorer knowledge again -
Oct 9, 1492
Chris Columbus
he arrived in America, starting a whole new colony and bringing over many new diseases from Eurpoe. -
invention of the microscope
Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invented something that would forever change how we look at science. -
developed vaccine for smallpox
Edward Jenner developed the vaccine for smallpox by using a small amount on a little boy to help a cut but ended up creating a vaccine. -
Benjamin Franklin
made many inventions & realized that colds could be passed on through air. -
invention of the stethascope
René Laënnec -
First female doctor
Elizebeth Blackwell: important for medical history because now we have doctors that are both male & female. -
American Red Cross was founded
Clara Barton: very important because it's still being used today to help people. Big for a women to be involved in something so big during this time peroid. -
first vaccine for rabies
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Discovered X-rays
William Roentgen -
Discovered x-rays
Wilheim Poentgen: still use them today -
isolated radium
Marie Curie: isolated in a lab in paris. -
Discovered Penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming: still used today, first used to treat diseases like syphillis. -
influenza vaccine
after America suffered a very tragic influenza epidemic, there was now a vaccine that people could get to try and prevent this from happening again. -
Polio Vaccine was developed
Edward Jenner: almost irraticated now. -
first cardiac pacemaker
Paul Zoll to control an irregular heartbeat. -
first kidney transplant
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performes this with two identical twins. -
First heart transplant surgery
Christain Bernard: we have gotten better ever since. -
first test-tube baby born
she was born in the U.K. -
smallpox is announced irraticated
WHO (world health organization) released that they have irraticated smallpox! -
AIDS/HIV recognized
people finally realize that AIDS & HIV are happening in the world -
first mammel cloned
Dolly the sheep was the first cloned mammel. -
flu shot
the first flu shot was given to immune your immunen system from getting the flu.
