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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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659
First dental amalgams invented
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
1249
Spectacles are invented
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1489
First dissection of corpse
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1500
Cesarean sections were invented
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Microscope was invented
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Blood cells are discovered
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Giacomo Pylarini
Gives first smallpox inoculations -
Benjamin Franklin
Invented first flexible catheter -
First successful appendectomy
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Stethoscope was invented
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Dr.Crawford W. Long
Performed first operation using anesthesia. -
First contact lens developed
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X-ray was invented
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Felix Hoffman
Invents aspirin -
Period: to
Modern world
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Willem J. Kolff
built the first dialysis machine -
Dr. Harold Ridley
Implanted the first permanently placed intraocular lens to correct cataract. -
First successful kidney transplant
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First fetal ultra sound
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Invention of the first artificial heart
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First human Genome invented
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Period: to
21st Century
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First adaptive artificial knee
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Dr. Colin McGucklin and Dr. Nico Forraz
Developed the first artificial liver -
First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Development of bionic limbs
