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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 8, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Sep 8, 1300
The sodiac man was used to prevent and treat illneses in the body.
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1523
Gave people a better understanding about their body and how it worked.
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Sep 8, 1543
Human anatomical studies were allowed
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The use of the scientific method begins
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria using microscope.
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Thanks to the microscope plague fleas were discoverd
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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New diagnostic tools shuch as the stethoscope were invented. Also Blood cells, protozoa and bacteria could now be seen in a microscope.
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Edward Jenner descovered the 1st vaccination
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Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis were ilnesses that kill lots of people.
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The importance of hand washing was brought to people.
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Period: to
Modern World
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicilin
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More helpful vaccines were made to prevent illnesses.
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Manage health care growth in many places that need health care.
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The medicine called Azido- Thymidine is used to combat AIDS.
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The FDA approved organ transplants
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Rhazes discobered the difference between small pox and measles.
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Medical care becomes regulated
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Christian monasteris founded to treat the ill
