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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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900
Difference between smallpox and measles is discovered
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1000
Beginning of Medical Care Regulation
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1300
Islamic hospitals founded; healthcare for the sick.
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1350
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
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1400
Jacoba Felicie
A woman practicing medicine without a license. Tried and banned from practicing medicine. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Use of scientific method begins.
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Human anatomical studies allowed.
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Robert Hooke
Coined the term "cells" -
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.
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Edward Jenner discovers first vaccination.
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Louis Pasteur
Discovered principle of pasteurization. -
Robert Koch
Discovers pathogens. -
Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity.
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Period: to
Modern World
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Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, CAT scans.
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Alexandar Fleming
Discovers penicillin. -
First HMO insurance.
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Salk discovers polio vaccine.
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated.
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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
Used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. -
The completion of the human genome project identifies a complete set of DNA that allows for new medications and treatments.
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Gardasil approved by FDA.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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First FDA approved implanted AbioCor heart placed in patient.
