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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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754
The First Pharmacy
The first pharmacy helped the development of drugs and helped people in learning how to make them. -
820
Hospitals
The earliest known hospital to be built was in 820 in the monastery of St Gall. This allowed for patients to come get the proper care and medicine they need. -
900
Rhazes
Rhazes had discovered the difference between measles and smallpox. -
900
Rhazes
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1213
Medical Education Standards
Laws were beginning to be put in place as a way of making premedical education more important. It stabilized medical education methods as well. These laws were created by Frederick the II. -
1289
Montpellier Medical School
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1289
Montpellier Medical School
The medical school in Montpellier was founded in 1289. Anyone of any race, gender, or religion was allowed to teach there as long as they had a medical degree thanks to Count Guilhem VIII. This allowed to employee many people to get a job in teaching medicine, and gave people the ability to go get a medical degree. -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1500
Human Anatomy Studies Allowed
Human anatomy studies were allowed and gave the doctors a way to figure out new ways of helping people with problems with their bodies -
1530
The "Paragranum"
The treatises called the "Paragranum" covered Paracelsus' ideas of how he approached surgeries and treatment. It helped doctors to understand how things can be treated differently from before. Paracelsus was famous for his different surgeries. -
William Harvey
Harvey discovered that the heart had two halves and that it pumped blood throughout the body. He did this by studying dying dogs. This helped doctors to see that the body had different systems that worked with each other to help the body flow and function. -
William Harvey
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Printing Press
Allowed for publication of medical discoveries -
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek described what bacteria looked like and gave the doctors an idea of what to look under a microscope. -
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
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Edward Jenner
Jenner discovered a vaccination for smallpox in 1796. He observed that people who got cowpox were not getting smallpox. This lead to a test of injecting cowpox in to a boy and then smallpox, and sure enough the boy did not get smallpox. -
Anesthetics
Ether was the first anesthetic used on someone by a Boston dentist. It made it so the patient fell asleep and had a painless surgery. -
Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.
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Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.
Elizabeth was the first women in the U.S. to earn a medical degree. This opened up the doors for women doctors in the U.S. This allowed for that sexism to be broken and new boundaries to be set in the medical world for women. They could now give medical care as a passion with a little less judgement. -
First Vaccine for Cholera
The first vaccine for cholera helps the people to not die from cholera anymore. -
Discovery of X-Rays
A German physicist discovered the concept of x-ray when looking at a cathode-ray tube and a florescent glow coming off. He discovered it could go through black paper, and it could pass through human skin tissue but just not bones. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Chemotherapeutic Era
Tests were conducted on arsphenamine, and the success launched the treatment of infectious diseases and the Chemotherapeutic Era. -
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Hopkins had a few discoveries in the field of nutrition. He helped in the creating of vitamins which now help with the health of many people. -
Pancrein Discovery
In 1921, pancrein was discovered in pancreatic extracts. It was then used on diabetic dogs, and it caused the blood glucose levels to decrease. -
Alexander Fleming
Flemming discovered penicillin which furthered developments in antibiotics. -
Alexander Fleming
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Tetanus Vaccination
An efficient vaccination was created in the 1930s that worked against Tetanus. -
Human Genome Discovery
Scientists went more in depth into the about 23,000 genes and what they do. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Clean Indoor Air Act
The Clean Indoor Air Act banned smoking in enclosed public areas. This causes less second hand smoke. -
Barack Obama
Obama created the Obamacare which makes it so that everyone can get healthcare. -
Barack Obama
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MyPlate
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MyPlate
The USDA Center started MyPlate and ended the food pyramid as a way to show kids how to have a nutritional meal that helps keep their body healthy now so they will not have to go through harder and more medicated lives in the future. -
HIV Cocktails
Approval was given in 2013 to be able to make cocktails of 4 different HIV pills for one dose.
