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500
Trepanning
A surgical procedure that involves drilling into the human skull. The hole exposes an outer membrane of the brain, which physicians use to treat an array of different health problems such as epilepsy and margins. -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between measles and small pox -
1120
Modern Anethesia is Developed
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1249
Roger Bacon
Invented Spectacles -
1300
Islamic hospitals
Health Care for the sick -
1300
Islamic hospitals
Health Care for the sick -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1400
Jacoba Felicie
Tried to practice medicine but is denied -
1505
Henry VII's Savoy Hospital
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Began using Scientific Method
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Reflective Microscope
Allowed study of microorganisms, like bacteria -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovers blood cells -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Discovery
Blood Cells, Bacteria, Protozoa, and Stethoscope -
Edward Jenner
Developed the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease -
Anaesthetics
Surgery was greatly improved -
Celluloid was Invented
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Louis Pasteur
First vaccine developed for rabies -
Period: to
Modern World
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Progressive Health Care Reformers
Theodore Roosevelt supported U.S. efforts to achieve universal coverage -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin -
Jonas Salk
Developed the first polio vaccine -
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Performed the first human heart transplant -
First successful heart transplant
Performed in South Africa -
Period: to
21st Century
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Jacques Marescaux
The first telesurgery was performed -
Gardasil
Vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA -
Laurent Lantieri
Performed the first full face transplant -
MIPPA
Provides incentives for practitioners who use electronic health records and e-prescribing -
Embryonic Stem Cells
Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells -
Heart Implant
FDA approved implanted AvioCor artificial heart placed in a patient
