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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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Jan 1, 1000
Surgery is considered a proffesion
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
The Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1347
Black Death
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Jan 1, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tires to practice medicine but is denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Modern Times
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Microscope invented
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Use of scientific method begins
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Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusion
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Plaque fleas discovered with microscope
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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First succesful appendectomy
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First vaccine for any diasease
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Stethoscope invented
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First succesful transfusion of human blood performed by James Blundell
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Pasturization of milk
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Penicillin discovered
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First HMO insurance
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Salk discoveres polio vaccine
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AZT is usednto combat AIDS
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WHO declares smallpoz eradicated
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Rhazes discovers difference between smallpox and measles