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500
Alcmaeon
Croton distinguished veins from arteries -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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754
Pharmacy
more drug stores soon opened up around the Arabic world -
900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between measles and smallpox -
1231
Medical education in schools
Many medieval universities would teach physicians and become the main centres through which medical knowledge would be shared -
1249
Roger Bacon
invents spectacles -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
-
1348
Black Death
a massive disease that depleted population in England -
1489
Leonardo da Vinci
dissects corpes -
1543
vesalius
publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani -
1581
Pendulum
publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani -
Reflective Microscope
Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria -
Giacomo Pylarini
gives the first smallpox inoculations -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Louis Pasteur
identifies germs as clause of disease -
First vaccine for developed for rabies
Louis Pastuer made this happen -
Contact lenses
the first contacts were developed -
Felix Hoffman
develops asprin -
Period: to
Modern World
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Insulin
Insulin first used to treat diabetes -
Sir Alexander Fleming
discovers pencilin -
Vaccine
First vaccine developed for yellow fever -
John Hoops
invented the first cardiac pacemaker -
Smallpox
is eradicated -
Human Genome Discoveries Reach the Bedside
scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Doctors and Patients Harness Information Technology
has actually changed the way they practice medicine for the better. Even doctors need to look things up from time to time. -
Heart disease
Has dropped by 40 percent in the past 20 years -
Targeted cancer therapy
They are drugs that help block the cells that involve tumor growth -
HIV cocktalls
A complex regimen of medications
