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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 23, 1000
surgery
surgery is considered a proffesion -
Jan 23, 1100
Dissections and autopsies
Dissection and auotopsies become staple -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 23, 1300
Islamic hospitals
healthcare for the sick -
Jan 23, 1400
medical books
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Jan 23, 1400
Leonardo Da vinci dissects corpse
renaissance -
Zacharius Jannssen
invents the microscope -
Ambroise Paré
one of the faathers surgery -
scientific method
use of scientific method begings -
iscovered how the heart pumps blood round the body
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Period: to
The industrial Revolution
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Francis bacon
uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
first smallpox inoculations
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James Lind
publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy -
irst successful appendectomy
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develop the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease
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Period: to
Modern times
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Karl Landsteiner
introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups -
Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
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Sir Alexander Fleming
discovers penicillin -
First vaccine developed for rubella
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Rhazes
He discovered the dofference between smallpoxs and measles
