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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Period: 500 to
Medical History
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Jan 1, 1000
Medical care becomes regulated
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals have health care for the sick
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Jan 1, 1350
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Jan 1, 1400
Jacoba Felicie tried practicing medicine, but was forbidden and denied without license
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Doctors begin using scientific method
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Movement for the sudies of the human anatomy took place
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Robert Hooke built first reflecting microscope that allowed doctors to observe things more accurately
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Printing press was invented; medical information about new discoveries were printed and spread quickly
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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English doctor Edward Jenner found that milkmaids exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox
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Discovery of blood cells
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Beginning of practicing vaccinations
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Louis Pasteur did experiments that became the basis for modern microbiology
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Joseph Lister created the way of disinfecting surgical equipment
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Period: to
Modern World
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Discovery of organ transplants
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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First HMO insurance (Health Maintenance Organization)
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Manages health care; growth in uninsured
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AZT is used to combat AIDS.
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Persian doctor Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measels
