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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Sep 11, 1249
Roger Bacon invents spectacles
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
The Renaissance
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Sep 11, 1489
Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
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Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
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Use of scientific method begins
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
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Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens
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First vaccine for rabies
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First contact lenses developed
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Felix Hoffman develops aspirin
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Period: to
Modern Times
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insulin first used to treat diabetes
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat
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South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell
died in 2003 -
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
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scientists announced they had completed a draft sequencing of the human genome
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Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24, Patient died on August 23
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Rhazes discovered differences between smallpox and measles
