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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, 1000
Surgery is considered a profession
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Sep 9, 1100
Foundation of medical school at Salerno in Italy
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
Islamic Hopsitals; Health care for the sick
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Sep 9, 1348
Black Death
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Sep 9, 1400
Invention of the printing press
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Sep 9, 1494
First Syphilis case in Europe
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Sep 9, 1500
Scientific method came into use
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Sep 9, 1543
Andreas Vesalius presented the first largely accurate description of the human body
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine for smallpox
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vaccines against rabies and anthrax were developed
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Cholera discovered
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Robert Koch discovered the anthrax disease cycle
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x-rays discovered
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Period: to
Modern Times
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Alexander Fleming discovers the enzyme lysozyme
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Kidney transplant from one twin to the other twin
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First liver transplant
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First heart transplant
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Steve thomas used maggots for infectious wound treatments
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Rhazes discoverd difference between smallpox and meazles
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Anglo-Saxon wrote a meadical book known as Balds leechbook