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| c. 1020 |
| | | The Persian scholar Avicenna, author of encyclopedic works on philosophy and medicine, spends the last part of his life in Isfahan | |
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| 1100 |
| | | Conjoined twins Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst are born in Biddenden, in Kent | |
|  | Conjoined female twins
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| c. 1489 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci begins an unprecedented series of detailed anatomical drawings, based on corpses dissected in Rome | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | European diseases bring death on a massive scale to an American population that has no immunity | |
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| 1513 |
| | | Eucharius Rösslin publishes the first textbook for midwives, later translated into English as The byrthe of mankynde | |
|  | Woman on a birthing stool
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| 1543 |
| | | Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius publishes a seven-volume work which for the first time lays bare human anatomy | |
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| 1545 |
| | | Ambroise Paré, the greatest surgeon of his day, publishes an account of how to treat gunshot wounds | |
|  | Artificial hand designed by Ambroise Paré
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| 1564 |
| | | Gabriele Fallopia invents the condom | |
|  | Swiss peasant family with 15 children
Wellcome Library, London
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| c. 1580 |
| | | William Chamberlen invents the obstetrical forceps | |
|  | Chamberlen forceps
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1610 |
| | | The first documented Caesarian section in which the mother survives | |
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