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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle ages
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900
Medical care became regulated
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900
Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
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950
christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
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1300
Islamic Hopitals health care for the sick
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Period: 1301 to
renaissance
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Human anatomical studies allowed
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scientific method began
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Robert Hooke reflective microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon discovers plague fleas
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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Louis Pasteur microbiology of milk
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Robert Koch discovered pathogens
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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First HMO insurance
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Salk discovers 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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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve 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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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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Mipppa provides incentives for practitioners who use electronic health records
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The first FDA approved implanted Abiocor artificial heart placed in a patient died on August 23
