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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
-The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years.
-Medicine practiced only in monastaries and convents.
-Used herbal medicine
-There were many plagues and epidemics -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
-Rebirth of science
-Medical schools were built
-Printing press was made which made books possible and helped share knowledge
-Accepted the study of the body by dissection -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
-Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo Da Vinci dissected human bodies
-William Harvy decribed the circulation of blood
-Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. -
Edward Jenner develped a vaccine for smallpox
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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
-Joseph Lister was the first docotr to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection.
-Ignas Semmelweiss identified the cause of maternal infections and isnstituedhand washing
-Louis Pasteur - Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused diseans and heating milk prevented basteria.
-Robert Koch "Father of Microbiology" discovered many disease-causing organisms
-Sigmund Freund studied effects of the unconscious mind on the body. Determine mind and body work together. -
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope
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Ben Franklin invented bifocals
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the US
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Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing and made nursing an honorable profession.
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Cara Barton "Angel of the Battlefield" established the American Red Cross
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Wihelm Roestgen disvovered x-rays
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Marie Curie isolated radium
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Alexander Fleming disoverd penicillin, the first anitbiotic.
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Jonas Salk discovered an altered polio virus vaccine.
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Alberty Sabin created the oral polio vaccine.
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Christian Barnard performed the workds first heart transplant surgery
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Louise Brown is the first test tube baby
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AIDs is named
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Announced AIDs to the world
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Newer Inventions and Procedures
-Tussue Cloning is the process used to create identical coble of an original
-Gene Therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissue to treat a disease.
-Advanced Body Imaging are diagnostic and screening tools
-Gene Mapping is mapping genes to specific locations on chromosomes
-Microsurgeries is survery on minute body parts or cells w/ aid of microscope and specialized instruments.
-Advances in scope surgery.
