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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle ages
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659
Dental Amalgams
Medieval China started to do teeth filling -
754
Pharmacies
The first pharmacy was established in medieval Arab -
900
Rhazes
Discovered difference between smallpox and measles -
1299
Human dissections
medieval physicians dissected dead people to better understand the human body -
1299
Medieval C section
Done when the mother had no chance of surviving or had already died -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1500
Plague doctors
During the Renaissance time the black death was taking over Europe so doctors would wear long coats and mask to avoid being contaminated like everyone else -
1550
sowing wounds
During this time instead of amputation you would be sowed back together if the wound wasn't bad -
1561
Treatment for malaria
During trade in the Renaissance it was found that bark for a quina tree would help treat malaria -
Surgical procedures
Surgical procedures slowly became better and made survival more likely -
William Harvey
Discovered how blood circulation works -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Vaccines
Vaccines cured many illness such as fevers and typhus -
Health and Sanitation
Sanitation was took more serious so in result illness and disease wasn't as common -
Blood transfusion
The first blood transfusions happened during this time and saved countless lives -
Germ Theory
A Theory was made that explained that germs were the cause of diseases -
Louis Pasteur
The man that invented the Germ theory -
Hospitals
As time went hospitals became more and more common -
Period: to
Modern World
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ridding on deadly diseases
Great strides were made to get rid of deadly diseases such as tuberculous and fevers -
President Truman
calls for a single national health insurance program -
Artifical hearts
The first artificial heart and heart transplants are made -
Health care
Health care become available to mostly everyone in need -
Over the counter medications
It is now extremely easy to get the medication you are in need of due to some laws being passed -
Period: to
21st Century
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Obama care
Obama care made it easier for the low income family to get the healthcare they deserve -
Obama
Made it easier for mostly everyone in america to get healthcare -
Human Genome Discoveries Reach the Bedside
For the first time the world could read the complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 23,000 genes do -
Common death drop
Common ways of death such as heart or lung failure have dropped drastically such as by 40%
