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Hospitals
They began in christian religious establishments and was one of the first places where people could be treated with specialized equipment. -
Jan 1, 754
Pharmacies
The first pharmacies started in Baghdad and were very helpful for the people in the area it was in. It was also where they made the drugs. -
Jan 1, 1201
Eyeglasses
They helped correct vision which was very useful for people with bad eyesight. -
Jan 1, 1201
Cleaning Wounds
Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. -
Jan 1, 1201
Theodoric Borgognoni
He was the person who came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. -
Jan 1, 1315
Mondino de Luzzi
A person named Mondino de Luzzi performed the dissection in front of a student audience. He also wrote the first book about dissection named Anathomia corporis humani. -
Jan 1, 1400
Treatments
Many home remedies were made using ingredients such as honey, which we now know kills bacteria. They could easily make it because more people could read and wright. -
The Microscope
It was invented by Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen and was later refined. -
William Harvey
He published the book "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals." -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He refined the microscope made by Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen and made nearly 500 models of it. He also examined blood cells. -
James Lind
He was a naval surgeon that discovered that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. He published a book called "Treatise of the Scurvy" that explained how to cure it. -
Edward Jenners
Somebody brought there kid to this doctor and he wanted to try his vaccine on this little boy. -
Nitrous Oxide
A doctor by the name of Sir Humphry Davy discovered that nitrous oxide has anesthetic properties, but doctors didn't start using it for another 45 years. -
Cholera
A doctor named Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine made the first vaccine for cholera -
Anthrax
A doctor named Pasteur made the first vaccine for anthrax -
Diphtheria
The first vaccine for diphtheria was created by doctor Von Behring -
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
This doctor suggest the existence of vitamins and concludes that they are essential to health. He also wont the Nobel prize in 1929 -
D. Paul Dudley White
He becomes one of the first people in America to become a cardiologist. It is a doctor that specializes in the heart. -
Insulin
It was first used to treat diabetes by doctor Sir Fredrick G Banting -
Pertussis
The first vaccine for pertussis was created by doctor Lelia Denmark -
Draft of a human genome
The first draft of human genome is announced -
Mini-Liver
This is generated from the human cord blood stem cells by doctors at Newcastle University, U.K. It is also about the size of a small coin. -
Stem Cells
Scientist use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells -
Woolly Mammoth DNA
The DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth was spliced into an elephant. Scientists then successfully use the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome. -
Thomas Manning
Thomas Manning was the first person to receive a penis transplant.
