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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle ages
The study of medical science stopped for over 100 years. Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents.
Used herbal medicine.
there were many paluges and epidemics- bubonic plague, small pox, diphtheria, syphilis, tuberculosis. -
Period: Sep 26, 1346 to Sep 26, 1353
Black Death
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Jan 1, 1400
Medical schools were built
1400-1650 -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance-
1.Rebirth of science
2. Medical schools were built
3. accepted the study of body by dissection -
Sep 26, 1450
Printing Press
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Sep 26, 1492
Christopher Columbus
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Jan 1, 1543
dissections of the human bodies were made and the firs tanatomical drawings
Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo Da Vinci -
Accepted the study of body by dissection
1400-1650 -
William Harvey described the circulation of blood and the pumping on the heart
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colds could be passed from person to person discovered
Benjamin Franklin- also invented bifocals -
We became United States of America
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first smallpox vaccine developed- Edward Jenner
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invention of the stethoscope- Rene Laennec
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Underground Railroad
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Ignas Semmeiweiss
instituted hand washing -
first woman to quaaify as a doctor in the US- Elizabeth Blackwell
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Florence Nightingale started the first nursing school
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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Rabies vaccine created
Louis Pasteur -
X-ray (Wilhelm Roentgen
helped doctors see inside the body to see what is wrong with a patient -
Isolated radium- Marie Curie
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Penicillin was discovered- Sir Alexander Fleming
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Penicillin was discovered- Alexander Fleming
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Great Depression
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Polio vaccine was developed
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Jonas Salk discovered an altered polio virus vaccine
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Albert Sabin created the oral polio vaccine
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Christian Barnard
performed the workld's first heart transplant surgery -
First "test tube baby" Louise Brown
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AID was named
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Aids was announced to the public
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