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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Feb 3, 900
Rhazes
Rhazes discovers the difference between small pox and measles -
May 4, 1000
Medical Care becomes regulated
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Oct 31, 1157
One of the first non-biased health care univeristies
Count Guilhem VIII of Montpellier permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach there, regardless of religion or background -
Mar 28, 1300
Islamic hospitals
Health care for the sick is created -
Apr 8, 1350
Christian Monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Scientific Method begins to be used
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Robert Hooke
Develops reflective microscope -
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Describes bacteria -
Using the microscope plague fleas are discovered
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of hand washing -
John Snow
John Snow stops outbreak of cholera -
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic plague hits San Francisco -
Period: to
Modern World
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MRI, and CAT scans are invented
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Alex Fleming Discovers penicillin
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
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The Human Genome project
Identified all of the 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA. -
Gardasil approved by the FDA to help fight cervical cancer
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Embryonic stem cells
Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells -
First FDA approved AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24
Patient died august 23
