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He described how to cure breathing difficulties by prefoming a tracheotomy
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Hospitals were built eg St Bartholomew's in London in 1123
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The 'Black Death' bubonic plague devastated Europe in the late 1340s, killing an estimated 100-200 million people.
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Parliament passed the first law requiring people to keep the streets and rivers clean in 1388.
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Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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In 1400, the average age of death was perhaps 35.
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The invention of the printing press made it possible to publish books faster. Info about new discoveries could be spread quickly
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By the 1500s, the physicians of Europe were legally required to assess a patient’s horoscope before embarking on any medical interference.
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Use of scientific method begins
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Discovered that the heart recycles blood and acts as a pump to circulate blood throughout the body
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Reflective microscope
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physician George Thomson recommended urine to be used on the plague.
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Yellow Fever appeared in the U.S. in the late 17th century. The deadly virus continued to strike cities, mostly eastern seaports and Gulf Coast cities, for the next two hundred years, killing hundreds, sometimes thousands in a single summer.
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Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe bacteria and other microscopic organisms using a rudimentary microscope.
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In 1763 in the New World, smallpox infected blankets were distributed to Native Americans starting an epidemic which killed thousands.
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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Several epidemics appeared throughout England eventually killing more people than the Black Plauge
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Was the first woman to earn and M.D. degree
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John Snow stoops outbreak of cholera
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Opened the New York Infirmary to serve poor women and children, and to provide more women opportunities to study medicine and nursing.
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The discovery of X-rays aloud doctors to see into the body without cutting it open
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He discovered that harmful bacteria (germs) were passed through the air. He did an experiment with bad wine and learned that boiling the liquid killed the bacteria. This research led to the development of antiseptics that were used in surgery to kill the germs that caused infection.
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It is still widely used today and led to the development of more antibiotic drugs that fight infections and save lives
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Doctors used to use ether to put patients to sleep during surgery> People didnt have to suffer the excrutiating pain of an opperation but many still died from wounds getting infected.
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Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity
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In 1972, Clarke invented, published, patented, presented, and recorded on film laparoscopic surgery, with instruments marketed by the Ven Instrument Company of Buffalo, New York, USA.[24]
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Steven Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
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Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
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Very dangerous illness in the Middle Ages
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles.