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200
Galen, Tracheotomy
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Period: 500 to
The history of medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The middle ages
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570
Muhammad, prophet of Islam is born.
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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, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Jan 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press
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Use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke, reflective microscope
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Antonie Can Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Period: to
Industrial revolution
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edward kemmer discovered 1st vaccination
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Louis Pateur pasteurization of milk
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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Period: to
Modern world
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Bubonic Plague hits San Francisco
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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First HMO insurance
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Managed health care, growth in uninsured
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Rhazes discovered differemce between smallpox and measles
