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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 21, 1000
Surgery is considered a profession.
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
The Renaissance
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Jan 23, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick.
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Jan 23, 1350
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
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Jan 21, 1400
Jacoba Felicie
This Frenchwoman tries to practice medicine but is denied. -
Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
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Use of scientific method begins.
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Printing press allows for publication of discoveries.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.
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Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.
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Edward Jenner
He discovered the 1st vaccination, -
First painless surgery with general anesthetic.
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing.
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John Snow stops the outbreak of cholera.
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X-Ray is used in medicine for the first time.
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Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity.
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Period: to
Modern Times
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco.
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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John Hopps
He invented the first cardiac pacemaker. -
WHO declares smallpox eradicated.
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HIV is identified.
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Ebola
An outbreak of Ebola spread worldwide, it's origin coming from Africa. -
Rhazes
He discovered the difference between smallpox and measles. -
Medical care becomes regulated.
