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430 BCE
vaccination
Edward Anthony Jenny created small pox vaccine -
430 BCE
vaccine
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Period: 200 to
21st Century
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1300
Middle Ages
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754
Pharmacies
The first pharmacy was established in baghdad in the year 754. -
754
pharmacies
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1231
Medical Education in universities
Frederick ll promulgated a set of laws concerning medical education standards and licensure that were far ahead ahead of his time -
1300
Guy De Chauliac
Guy De Chauliac was a french physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in latin, titled Chirurgia Maga. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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1315
Anatomy and Dissection
The Italian physician Mondino de Luzzi even conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators. The following year he would write Anathomia corporis humani, which is considered the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical text. -
1352
eyeglasses
invented eyeglasses to help correct vision. -
1352
eyeglasses
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1400
diagnosis and treatment
Often turned to superstitions and magic -
1492
Infections and epidemics
common problems at this time included smallpox, leprosy and the black death, which continued to reappear from time to time. -
1492
Infections and epidemics
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1543
Andreas Vesalius
Renaissance physician who revolutionized the study of biology and the practice of medicine by his careful description of the anatomy of the human body. -
Takeaway
scientist learned more about how the human body works, and new discoveries, such as vaccinations, came into being. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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James Watt
A Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and a chemist who improved on Thomas newcomens 1712 newcomen steam engine with his with his watt steam engine. -
Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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Cholera Highlights
A cholera epidemic left India 1817 and reached Sunderland in 1831 -
Slow Public health to be delt with
town administration was weak, poor and too impotent to meet the demands of new urban life. -
The municipal corrperations act of 1835
a commission was appointed to look into municipal government -
sanitary reform movement
a group of doctors wrote 2 reports on the living conditions in London bethnal green -
the public health act of 1848
the act created a central board of of health with a five year mandate -
Infectious diseases
Work related diseases were more common, when cities expanded typhus and cholera became more common as a result, when people traveled they carries on diseases. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Florence nightingale
a British nurse, statistician, and a writer. she did pioneering nursing work while caring for wounded soldiers during the Crimean ear. -
Insulin
an american Canadian discovered insulin -
insulin
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Human Electroencephalography
The German doctor Hans Berger discovered it. -
human electroencephalography
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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. -
Abio Cor Artificial Heart
a new generation artificial heart in a patient -
The human genome project
determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA. -
The smoke free law
attempt to lower the number of people effected by second hand smoking along with improving the indoor air quality -
Stem cells
Doctors began to introduce potential stem cells also cloned human stem cells
