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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle ages
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Sep 8, 754
First Pharmacy
In Baghdad The first pharmacy opened. -
Sep 6, 900
Rhazes
He was a Persian doctor. He discovered the difference between measles and small pox. -
Oct 1, 1096
Oxford
Oxford was founded between 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. -
Oct 1, 1100
Dissections and Autopsies
This was created because it is hard to cure the body without understanding it. -
Sep 8, 1231
Medical Education
Frederick II created a set of laws that were ahead of his time. They didnt take place immediately but he mad it very clear you have to have medical schooling/training before being a physician. -
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Renaissance
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Bacteria
Blood circulation first described Bacteria discovered. -
Microscope
when the microscope was invented it helped us discover blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms. -
William Harvey
He published a new theory that the heart acts as a muscular pump which circulates blood around the body in the blood vessels. -
Sir Christopher Wren
Experimented with K-9 blood transfusions -
cell
A cork was looked at through a microscope and found cells -
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Industrial revolution
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer -
Physicians, surgeons and apothecaries
Physicians were the only doctor that was educated and had a degree, while apothecaries and surgeons that mainly only had experience as an apprentice. -
Hospital
The first hospital was opened in Pennsylvania founded by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond -
Surgery as a profession
The New Jersey Medical Society first decided to have a meeting to "form a program embracing all the matters of highest concern to the profession: regulation of practice; educational standards for apprentices; fee schedules; and a code of ethics." Now they are called Medical Society of New Jersey. -
Smallpox vaccine
The first smallpox vaccine was created by Edward Jenner. He made an observation that the milkmaids who had caught cowpox didn't catch smallpox. He found out inoculated cowpox protected against inoculated smallpox. -
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Modern world
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karl landsteiner
system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
