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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, 1140
Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license
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Sep 9, 1157
Count Guilheim VIII of Montpellier permitted anyone who had a medical license to teach at Salerno
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
Universities developed in western europe that were classified as medical schools
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Sep 9, 1346
Plague ravaged Europe
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Sep 9, 1493
Syphilis was first recorded in Europe
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Sep 9, 1523
Gabriele Falloppio described the female reproductive system
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Sep 9, 1543
Andreas Vesalius published the first accurately correct description of the body
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Microscope is developed to see our blood cells
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A law is passed making blood transfusion illegal in France
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Smellie gives midwives and medical students in london unprecedented practical lectures on child birth
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Aurenbrugger discovers purcussion to determine how much fluid a person has in their chest
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Typhoid outbreaks, 4 cases of this
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Cholera results in over 50000 deaths in less than a year
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Louis Pasteur proves that germs do exist
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Period: to
Modern World
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough
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Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
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No case of smallpox on the planet
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
