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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
Christian monastaries founded to treat the sick
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Jan 1, 1000
Medical care becomes regulated
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Jan 1, 1200
Muslim hospitals become common
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Jan 1, 1400
Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine, is turned down
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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People begin to use the scientific method
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Human Anatomical studies allowed
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Robert Hooke builds one of the first reflecting microscopes
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protoza, and stethoscope
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Edward Jenner discovers 1st vaccination
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of hand washing
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Robert Koch discovers pathogens
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
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Salk discovers the Polio vaccine
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WHO declares small pox eradicated
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AZT used to combat AIDS
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Gardasil approved by the FDA
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Rhazes Discovers the difference between Small Pox and Measles
