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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, 1000
Surgery is now considered a profession
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Sep 8, 1100
Dissections and autopsies become a staple
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1347
Black Death breaks out
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Sep 8, 1400
Frenchwoman Jocoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Use of scientific method begins
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discovery that the heart pumps blood and has two beating sides
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Robert Hooke creates reflective microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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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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vaccine discovered for rabies
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First vaccine for typhoid fever
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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First HMO insurance
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
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First FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
