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430 BCE
vaccinations
Edward Anthony Jenny created small pox vaccine. -
754
pharmacies
the first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in 754 -
1231
Medical Education in Universities
Frederick ll promulgated a set of laws concerning medical education standards and license that were far ahead of his time -
1300
Guy De Chauliac
Guy De Chauliac was a French physician ans surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin. -
1315
anatomy and dissection
an italian physician Mondino de Luzzi even conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators, The following year he wrote Anathomia corporis humani which is considered the first example of a modern dissection manual. -
1352
eyeglasses
invented to help correct eye vision -
1400
diagnosis and treatment
often turned to superstitions and magic -
cholera highlights
a cholera epidemic left India in 1817 and reached Sunderland in 1831 -
the municipal corporations act of 1835
a commission was appointed to look into municipal govt. -
Slow Public Health to be dealt with
Town administration was weak, poor and too impotent to meet the demands of new urban life. -
sanitary reform movement
an approach to public health first developed in England in the 1830s and '40s -
the public health act of 1848
This act created a central board of health with a five year mandate. -
infectious diseases
work related diseases were more common. When cities expanded, typhus and cholera became more common as a result, when people traveled, they carried and spread diseases. -
florence nightingale
A British nurse, statistician, and write did pioneering nurse work while caring for wounded soldiers during the Crimean era. -
insulin
An American-Canadian discovered insulin. -
human electroencephalography
A German doctor, Hans Berger, discovered it -
infections and epidemics
common problems at this time includes smallpox, leprosy and black death -
human genome discoveries read the bedside
for the first time the world could read the complete set of human genetic information -
human genome project
determining the sequence of chemical base -
the smoke free law
attempt to lower the number of people getting affected -
stem cells
doctors began to introduce potential stem cells also cloned human stem cells