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200
Accupuncture used
Chinese used accupuncture to relieve pain and congestion -
400
Began public sanitation systems
Romans began public health and sanitaation systems -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years
only herbal medicine was used -
410
black ages start
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Jan 1, 600
Many Plagues
Plagues and emidemics such as dyptheria, bubonic plague, small pox, tuberculosis were rapidly spread during the dark and middle ages -
Jan 1, 1346
Black death
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance
rebirth of science
medical schools were built
printing press made
study of body bu dissection was accepted -
Jan 1, 1450
printing press
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Jan 1, 1490
Drawings of human systems
Leonardo Da Vinci drew detailed drawings of human muscles and parts during disections. He drew how he figured systems worked inside the body -
Disection is approved
The church didnt approve of using bodies for dissection until now. during the renaissance -
Blood circulation is described
William Harvey described how the heart pumps blood throughout the body and how blood circulates -
USA created
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Protecting against smallpox
Edward Jenner discoveres that exposing peole to the cowpox virus can help protect them from the smallpox virus -
stethoscope invented
invented by Rene Laennec -
Underground railroad
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washing hands became practiced
Ignaz semmelweis discovered that washing hands before delivering babies would prevent many deaths of mothers and babies -
First woman MD
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman qualified Doctor -
patterns of heredity established
Gregor Mendel established the patterns of heredity by growing and testing thousands of plants and their offspring -
Father of microbiology
Robert Koch discovered many disease causing organisms -
Founded American Red Cross
founded by Clara Barton -
Anticeptics used during surgery
anticeptics were first used during surgery by Joseph LIster -
X-rays discovered
Wilhem Roentgen discovered x-rays -
Scope surgery
the big advancement of scope surgery is that large incisions are no longer needed for some repares or surgeries -
Discovered Penicillin
Sir Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin -
Great depression
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Polio vaccine invented
Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine -
First Heart transplant
preformed by Christian Barnard -
Meningitis vaccine
the first meningitis vaccine was created in 1978 -
First Test Tube baby
Louise Brown was the first test tube baby; born on July 25, 1978 -
AIDS announced
AIDS was announced to the world as a virus -
first tissue cloning
Dolly the sheep was cloned and was born July 5, 1996
