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Period: 500 to 1300
The middle ages
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900
Rhazes
He discovered the difference between measles and smallpox. -
1140
Medical care was regulated
You couldn't practice medicine without a license. -
1289
Montpellier Medical school founded
Anyone who had a medical license could teach there. -
1300
Islamic hospitals
health care for sick people -
1300
Barbers doubling as doctors or dentists
They could preform bloodletting and other procedures -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1400
French woman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Use of scientific method begins
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Microscope Invented
Allowed for the study of microscopic organisms. -
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria
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Francis Bacon finds plague using a microscope
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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First vaccination discovered
By Edward Jenner -
Stethoscope invented
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Important of hand washing is brought forward
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John Snow stops outbreak of Cholera
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Joseph Lister
Practice medical sepsis -
Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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HMO insurance
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CAT CT scan invented
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Smallpox eradicated
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Human genome released to public
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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
Used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. -
Gardasil approved by FDA
Vaccine to prevent cervical cancer -
MIPPA
Provided incentives for practitioners who use eletronic health records -
Abiocor placed in a patient
first FDA approved artificial heart
