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Period: 476 to 1492
Middle Ages
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740
Event
The first pharmacy was established in Bagdad -
1100
Person
Ibn al Haytham came up with the new explanation for vision through his research on optics and the anatomy of the eye. -
1300
Event
Eyeglasses were invented to help correct vision and was well know in Italy -
1300
Event
A surgeon came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. -
1300
Event
The concept of quarantine became popular in the aftermath of the Black Plague -
Period: 1300 to
Renaissance
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1500
Event
Cesarean Sections (C-Sections) became popularized when succes in performing the operation without threatning the mother and child's life -
1500
Person
Girolamo Fracastoro was the first doctor to suggest that human diseases were caused by pathogens. -
1500
Event
Hospitals were established in Europe that helped increase survival rates, 35 hospitals in Florence by the 15th century. -
1526
Event
After the Black Death in Europe, a German physician discovered drinking mercury was a cure for deadly diseases like syphilis. -
Event
Adding to herbs and cures like Quinine, from the bark of the Quina tree, to help treat malaria and its symptoms became more popular -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Object
The first stethoscope was invented by a young French physician -
Event
Antitoxins are discovered and used to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. -
Person
Ronald Ross a British officer in the Indian Medical Service, shows that malaria parasites are transmitted by mosquitoes. -
Event
Salicylic acid in willow tree bark is used to create aspirin. -
Event
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Event
The first blood bank was started at Cook County Hospital in Chicago -
Event
The antibiotic streptomycin is discover and later used in the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases -
Person
James Watson and Francis Crick at Cambridge University describe the structure of an DNA molecule. -
Event
The first oral polio vaccine was administered -
Event
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified -
Period: to
21st Century
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Event
Hormone replacement therapy is used to help reduce women's risk of cancer after menopause. -
Person
Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard and Professor Bernard Devauchelle carried out the world's first partial face transplant on a living human -
Event
Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells -
Event
The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the U.S for a wearable artificial kidney -
Event
Extinct woolly mammoth DNA is put with elephant DNA to successfully revive the DNA to the sequence of the mammoth's complete genome
