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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 1253
School of Salerno was created by monks
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Sep 8, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Sep 8, 1348
Black death in England
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Sep 8, 1400
Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1504
epidemic broke out among French troops: Syphilis
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Use of Scientific Method begins
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Robert Hooke-- reflective telescope
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Anotonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon uses to discover plague fleas
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Edward Jenner discovered the 1st vaccination
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Typhoid outbreaks
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Health of Towns Association
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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Robert Koch discovers cholera germ
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Period: to
Modern Times
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
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MIPPA provides incentives for practitioners who use elecrronic health records and e-prescribing
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The first FDA approved impanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24. Patient died August 23
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles