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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Medieval Ages
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Sep 8, 750
Monastaries founded to treat sick. Consisted of rest and prayers.
Local healers were often women. -
Sep 8, 1000
Barbers would also practice surgery.
The red and blue pole is a symbol left over. -
Sep 3, 1300
Religious Instruction Qur'an taught responsibilities
Taught providing for the poor, Taught social responsibilities. -
Sep 3, 1400
Jacoba Felicie, tried for practicing medicine without license
Defended herself by saying that women were sometimes embarrassed to go to a male physician for treatment. She was forbidden to practice medicine. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The Renaissance
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Scientific Method begins. Observations & experiments.
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Robert Hooke detailed a improved microscope
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Printing press allows for publications.
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Antonie Van improves microscope & describes bacteria.
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Frances Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
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Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccine.
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Discovery of blood, cells, bacteria, protozoa, and Stethoscope.
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Robert Koche discovers pathogens.
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Ignaz - Importance of hand washing.
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Bubonic Plague in San Francisco
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Period: to
Modern Times
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Alexander Fleming dsicovers penicillin.
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First HMO insurance.
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Salk discovers Polio vaccine.
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Managed health care. Growth in uninsured.
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots of infected wounds.
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Rhazes finds a difference.
Discovered the difference between smallpox and measeles. His works were used until the 1800's
