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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
1010
The book of Healing and the Canon of Medicine was written
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1249
Spectacles were invented
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1300
Islamic Hospitals
health care for the sick -
1400
Jacoba Felicie
tries to practice medicine but is denied -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke
reflective microscope -
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
describes bacteria -
Microscope was used to discover plague fleas
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The first successful appendectomy was performed
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discovery of the 1st vaccination
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Ignaz Semmelweis
shows importance of hand washing -
John Snow
stops outbreak of Chloera -
Marie Curie
discovers science of radioactivity -
Bubonic Plague hits San Fransico
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming
discovers penicillin -
first HMO insurance
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Salk
discovers polio vaccine -
Managed health care, growth in uninsured
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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 -
Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
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Laurent Lantieri
performs the first full face transplant -
Scientists discover how to use human skill cells to create embryonic stem cells
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the first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24
