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Egyptians
3500-500 BCE
-Earliest people to keep accurage records
-Identified some specific diseases
-Used medicine to heal disease
-Splinted fractures -
100
Greeks
Greeks-400BCE
-Began the Study of disease
-Hippocrates
*Father of Medicine-Hippocratic Oath
*Natural Explanation, Clinical Observation, Code of behavior -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
-The study of medical science stopped for over 1,000 years (medicine was practiced only in monasteries and convents)
-Used herbal medicine
-Many plagues and epidemics-bubonic plague, smallpox, diptheria, syphilis, tuberculosis -
Jan 1, 1450
Printing Press
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Jan 1, 1492
Discovery of America
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US gained their independence
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Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox
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First practical anesthetic, ether, introduced
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first womean to qualify as a doctor
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Germ Theory introduced
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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William Roentgen discovered x-rays
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Clara Barton Isolated Radium
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine
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Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery
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Louise Brown was born
first successful test tube baby -
AIDs is named
Found in the 1960's, but not given a name until now -
AIDs officially announced to the world
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First Cloning
Scientists clone the first sheep
