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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 9, 1000
Medical care becomes regulated
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Sep 9, 1000
surgery is considered a profession
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
islamic hospitals; health care for the sick.
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Sep 9, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied.
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Sep 9, 1494
Syphilis was first recorded in Europe
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Sep 9, 1543
first largely accurate description of the human body
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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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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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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4 major typhoid outbreaks
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germ theory of disease developed by Louis Pasteur
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Robert Koch identifies the cholera germ
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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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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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
