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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, 1140
Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a lisence
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Sep 8, 1330
Breakout of the Bubonic Blague
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Sep 8, 1350
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Sep 8, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1523
Gabrielle Fallappio described the female reproductive organs, giving his name to the fallopian tubes
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Sep 8, 1543
Vesalius (father of human anatomy) published a book that illustrated and explained human anoatomy
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Use of Scientific Method begins
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Invention of printing press allows for publications and new medical discoveries
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Antonnie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoschope are discovered
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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Surgery is greatly improved by the discovery of anesthetics
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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Rubber gloves are first used in surgery
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Period: to
Modern Times
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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First test tube baby is born in the U.K.
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First vaccine for hepatitis B
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell (died 2003)
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First face transplant takes place
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Rhazes discovered difference between small pox and measles
