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500
Galen; Tracheotomy
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500
barber surgeons cut hair and preformed surgery, barber pole popularized
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Period: 500 to
HIstory of Medicine
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Jan 1, 1100
Medical Care becomes regulated
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Jan 1, 1300
islamic hospitals health care for the sick
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1350
Christians monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Jan 20, 1400
French women Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine, but is denied
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Use of Scienctific Method
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Printing press allows for publication of discoveries
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Robert Hooke - Reflective microscope
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humans antomical studies allowed
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protoza and stethoscope
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Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination
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Joesph Lister- practice of medical asepsis
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Period: to
Modern World
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Discoverey of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI and CAT scans
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Salks finds vaccine for polio
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Managed healthcare
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound
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Gardisil, vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, approved by the FDA
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Scienctists discover how to use skin cells and make them into embryonic stem cells
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MIPPA provides incentives for practictioners who use electronic health records and e-prescribing
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1st FDA approved implanted artifical heart in a patient on June 24, died August 23
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Rhazes discovered difference between small pox and measels
