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Period: 200 to
changes in the medical field
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 11, 1100
medical care becomes regulated
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Sep 11, 1300
islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Sep 11, 1350
Many monasteries were founded specifically to treat the sick.
Local healers, who were often women, served at the monasteries. Otherwise, the treatment consisted of prayer and rest. -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
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Sep 10, 1400
Women were not allowed to practice medicine.
Frenchwoman named Jacoba Felicie tried practicing medicine without a license but was denied -
Sep 11, 1400
Physicians were licensed after formal training with experienced doctors.
Physicians and surgeons received different training. Physicians learned by reading books and training with experienced doctors. -
Sep 11, 1500
he invention of the printing press
This made it possible to publish books faster. Information about new discoveries could be spread quickly -
Use of scientififc method begins
major change with the way people though about medicine and research -
people began to look for the real causes of what they saw around them.
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Robert Hooke built one of the first reflecting microscopes
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Frances Bacon uses microscope to discover Plague Fleas
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studies of the human anatomy took place.
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Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination
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Blood cells, bacteria, and protozoa could now be seen with a microscop
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Edward Jenner, an English doctor, discovered that milkmaids exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox
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Period: to
modern world
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louis Pasteur started pasturizing milk
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Robert Kosh- discovery of pathogens
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John Snow stops outbreak in cholera
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Alexander fleming discovers penicilen
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first HMO insurance
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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managed health care
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Discoveries in electronics and computer science changed clinical medicine dramatically.
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Radium, used for cancer treatment, was discovered
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectuous wound treatment
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Barbers didnt just cut hair they also performed surgery
baber-surgeons performed surgery to help treat cataracts and phlebotomy. They also helped the military by amputating limbs and burned the stumps to seal the blood vessel. -
Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
His work was usded intil 1800; Rhazes played a role in the development of medicne as a science by building on the ideas of Hippocrates.
