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200
Galen; tracheotomy
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Period: 500 to
The History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle ages
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1350
Black death breaks out in Italy
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Jan 1, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Modern World
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Jan 1, 1440
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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Jan 1, 1537
identified the valves of the heart
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Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius published an anatomy text
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Jan 1, 1550
In Britian there were 3 small hospitals
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Use of scientific method begins
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they're doing a lot of research with the medical plants
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there was an estimated 500 medical practionsers
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People started devloping good medicine
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Robert Hooke- reflective microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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the first clinic in British Empire to dispense medicines to poor sick people
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Antonie Phillips Van Leeuwenhoek made advances in microbiology
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a british chemist described how nitrous oxide has anestheric properties
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Several diseases came out including "phossy jaw"
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Health problems such as typhus and cholera became more common
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the electrocardiograph was invented
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Printing press allows for publication of discoveries
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Rhazes discovered differnece between smallpox and measles
