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Hippocrates
The father of modern medicine. 400 BC -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
The dark ages
Medicine was only practiced by the church. -
Jan 1, 1200
first strict measures for controle of public hygiene instituted
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Jan 1, 1400
first recorded regulations for mid-wives
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
The rebirth of science -
Oct 7, 1400
Medical Schools built for the first time
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Jan 1, 1500
Da Vinci dissected human bodies
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Anton von Leluwenhoer invented the Microscope
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Bed franklin invented bifocals and that colds are transferable
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edward jenner found the vaccination for smallpox
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joseph lister used antiseptic for the first time
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Ignas Semmllweiss instituted hand washing
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Louis Pasteur found the rabies vaccine
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sigmond freud studied the effects of the mind
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clara barton established the American Red Cross
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elizabeth blackwell was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the US
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William Roentgen discovered X-rays
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Albert Sabin created the oral polio vaccine
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Marie Curie isolated radium
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tissue cloning, dolly the sheep
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gene therapy comes about
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gene mapping is discovered
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advances in scope surgery
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Alexander Fleming descovered penicillin
