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500
Barber surgeons cut hair and performed surgeries.
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Period: 500 to
Medical History
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 1100
Medical care becomes regulated.
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Sep 8, 1350
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
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Sep 8, 1400
Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tried to practice medicine but was denied.
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1510
Surgery was mostly practiced by barbers.
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Sep 8, 1543
Andreas Vesalius is considered the father of the study of the human body.
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Robert Hooke built one of the first reflecting microscopes.
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Antonie 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, protozoa, and stethoscope.
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Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination.
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Discovery of pathogens.
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John Snow stops the outbreak of cholera.
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco.
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Period: to
Modern World
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Discovery of organ tranplant, x- rays, raduim for cancer treatment, MRI, CAT scan.
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.
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Salk discovered the polio vaccine.
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Managed health care; growth in uninsured.
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AZT is used to combat AIDs.
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Rhazes discovered the differencen between smallpox and measles