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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle ages
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Sep 9, 1100
Leprosy was the most feared disease of the Middle Ages. the disease was found in about 2,000 colonies.
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
A plauge called the Black Death killed every fourth person in Europe,
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Sep 9, 1400
A Frenchwomen Jacoba Felcie tries to practice medicine but is declined.
Middle Ages -
Sep 9, 1400
the flu became a major worry because it could form epidemics, generally occurring in the winter or early spring.
Middle ages -
Sep 11, 1510
Paré was a French surgeon, anatomist and an inventor of surgical instruments.
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Sep 11, 1550
Egg yolk and oil of roses releived pain.
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Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
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Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
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Period: to
industrial revolution
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the scientific Method started being used.
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William Harvey published a book called, An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals. it described how blood is pumped through the heart and the body.
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Discovers blood cells and observes animal and plant tissues and microorganisms.
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Francis bacon uses Microscope to discover plauge fleas.
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René Laënnec invents the stethoscope
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree (from Geneva Medical College in Geneva, New York).
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First vaccine for rabies
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German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.
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First vaccine for typhoid fever
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Period: to
Modern world
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isulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine for tetanus.
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Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell (dies in 2003)
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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Rhazes discoverd the diference between small pox and measles.
