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400
STart of Dark Ages
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400
Greeks (400 BCE)
Studied the idea of disease and relized there was more than just because the gods cursed you that people got sick. -
Jan 1, 1096
Start of the First Crusades
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Jan 1, 1348
Peak of the Black Plague in Europe
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Jan 1, 1450
Printing Press
In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg made his first printing press. -
Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean to the America's
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Jan 1, 1500
Leonardo da Vinci drawings
Leonardo da Vinci used dissections to truely study the body and he drew in depth pictures of the muscles and organs. -
First Microscope
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope and was the first person to see bacteria. -
First Mercury Thermometer
Gabriel Farenheit invented the first mercury thermometer -
Colds are spread
BenFranklin discovered the common cold is spread from person to person it is not caught from getting cold outside. -
Start of American Revolutionary War
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Biofocals created
Ben Franklin created biofocals -
Smallpox Vaccine
Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine for smallpox after his dairymaid had cowpox. Smallpox no longer exists in the World because of the vaccine. -
Dorthea Dix
Dorthea Dix was one of the most influential reformes in the treatment of women and the mentally handicapped. -
Stethoscope Invented
Rene Laennec invented the stethoschope. -
Hand washing Instituted
Ignas Semmelweiss identified the case of maternal infectionsand instituted hand washing. Many newborns died because of infection from dirty hands. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the US -
Pattern of Heredity
Gregor Mandel establised the patterns of heredity. -
First Nursing School
Florence Nightingale opened the first nursing school during the Crimean WAr and made nursing an honorable profession. -
Pasteurization of Milk
Louis Pasteur started the pasteurization of milk to kill bacteria -
Antiseptic Used
Joesph Lister realized that antiseptic should be used during surgery and clen tools so that infections would be prevented -
American Red Cross
Clara Barton started the American REd Cross which helped the war effort in setting up wartime hospitals. -
Culture Plates
Robert Koch developed culture plate method to identify pathogens. -
Rabies Vaccine proven
The rabies vaccine saved a little boy after a dog bite. Louis Pasteur had invented the vaccine. -
X-Ray Discovery
William Roentgen took the first x-ray of his wifes hand and noticed which materials you could see thorugh and which ones you could not. -
First Model T made by Henry Ford
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Isolation of Radium
Marie Curie was first sucessful in isolateing radium in 1910 and later recieved a Nobel Prize for it. -
Penicillin discovered
Alexander Fleming discovered penicilllin, the first antibiotic. This was considered one of the most important discoveries in the twentieth century. -
Penicillin Discovery
After finding that humans have something in their mucus that kills bacteria Sir Alexander Fleming started work on finding the "Wonder Drug" Penicillin has become a life saving drug. -
Stock Market crash
The stock Market crash lead to a ten year long depresion. -
Start of the Cold War
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Altered Polio Virus Vaccine
Jonas Salk discovered an altered Polio Virus Vaccine. -
Oral Polio VAccine
Albert Sabin created the oral polio vaccine, which was more effective than Salk's vaccin -
First Heart transplant
Chistian Barnard was the first doctor to perform a heart transplant -
First in vitro fertilization
Louis Brown was the first "test tube" baby born. -
AIDS epidemic in America
Aids was and epidemic in America 10 years or so ago but is no longer a large scale issue due to education -
Small pox eradicated
The world health assembly announced that small pox had been eradicated form the world. -
Gene Therapy
The insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, hereditary desease in particular. -
Dolly the Sheep
Tissue Cloning was created. It's the process of creating an identical copy of an original. -
Animal guts used as suture
Rhazes, an arab physician used animal gut as suture material.
