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90
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox -
400
Hippocrates
practiced and taught medicine -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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542
Plague
plague began -
1140
Roger of Sicily
Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license indicating that doctors were under some form of regulation -
1300
Islamic Hospitals
health care for the sick -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
-
1340
Anatomy school
the university at Montpellier included a school of anatomy. -
1348
Black Death
plague that raged Europe and killed a third of its population. -
1489
Leonardo da Vinci
he dissects corpses -
Scientific method
use of scientific method began -
Reflective Microscope
allowed study of microorganism like bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial
-
James Lind
discovers citrus fruit prevents scurvy -
Small Pox
only method to prevent small pox was inoculation -
Rene Laennec
invents stethoscope -
Louis Pasteur
identifies germs as cause of diseases -
Robert Koch
He identified the bacteria called anthrax -
Period: to
Modern World
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NTA
National Tuberculosis Association is founded -
August Von Wasserman
Introduces test for Syphilis -
Vitamin A
Elmer v. McCollum and associates isolate Vitamin A -
Vitamin B3
Researchers discover riboflavin or vitamin B3 -
NCI
National Caner Institute is founded -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human Genome
Human Genome project completed -
Medicare
George W. Bush creates medicare part D -
Health Care
Health Care fraud prevention and enforcement action team is created -
Health Reform
Obama signs Health Reform into law -
Health Care Insurance
8 Million children received health insurance coverage under the program
