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Period: 500 to
Medical HIstory
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
Islamic Hospitals begin health care for the sick
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Sep 4, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Sep 11, 1450
Barber-surgeons in England were restricted to bloodlettings, dental extractions, and hair care
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Sep 9, 1543
Andreas Vesalius published an illustrated anatomy text
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The use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke built one of the first reflective mircroscopes
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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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The stethoscope was invented
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Ether began to be used as an anesthetic for surgery
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing
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Period: to
Modern World
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Bubonic plague its 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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Gardasil a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox & measles
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Christians build hospitals; first emperor in W. Europe decreeded that every cathedral should have a hospital connected to the school and monestery
