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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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Jan 1, 1084
First documented hospital in England Canterbury
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Jan 1, 1095
Congregation of the Antonines, was founded to treat victims of St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease.
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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
French Woman Jacova Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke - reflective microscope
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Antonie Van 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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Joseph Lister practice of medical asepsis
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Robert Koch - discovery of pathogens
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand wasking
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander fleming descovers penicillin
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First HMO insureance
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WHO declares smallpoz eradicated.
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Managed Health care; frowth in uninsured
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles