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Period: 500 to
Medical History
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle ages
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 11, 1356
The Black Plague
killed most of europe -
Sep 11, 1400
The Great Pox
french diease; bubonic plague -
Sep 9, 1500
anatomical
Human anatomical studies allowed -
method begins
Use of scientific method begins -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
blood cells
Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens -
Period: to
Modren World
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John Snow
Stops outbreak of cholera -
Dr. Jonas Salk
Salk discovers polio vaccine -
Health care
Managed health care; growth in uninsured -
AZT
AZT is used to combat AIDS -
Steve Thomas
Steve used sterile maggots for infectious would treatment -
Gardasil
a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA -
MIPPA
MIPPA (medicare improvements for petients and providers act) MIPPA provides invcentives who use electronic health records and e-prescribing -
FDA approved
The first FDA approved implantdd AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24. Patient died on Augest 23 -
hand washing
Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing