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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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Sep 9, 1000
Surgery is consireded a profession
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Sep 9, 1200
Christian church encouraged to help the sick and needy
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
Islamic hopitals; health care for the sick
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Sep 9, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Sep 9, 1449
An epidemic of Naples broke out
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke- reflective microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccation
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Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis
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At least 18,000 deaths caused by Cholera
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Cocaine was used as a local anesthetic
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Rubber gloves were first used in surgery
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Period: to
Modern World
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
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Jonas Salk develops the first polio
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First vaccine for chicken pox
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HIV, the virus that causes AID'S is identified
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic cells
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Rhazes discover difference between smallpox and measles