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500
Bian Que
He was the first physician known to use acupuncture and pulse diagnosis. -
500
Veins and Arteries
Veins were distinguished from arteries. -
Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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900
Rhazes
Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox -
1010
Avicenna
Avicenna wrote the book of healing and the canon of medicine -
1289
Montpellier
The medical school Montpellier was discovered -
Period: 1301 to
Renaissance
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1423
surgical procedures
Surgical procedures improved and survival from even simple procedures increased. -
Scientific Method
The use of scientific method was discovered. -
Microscope invented
Allowed for the study of microscopic organisms -
Antonie Van Leewenhoek
Antonie Van Leewenhoek describes bacteria. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover Plague Flees. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination. -
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic Plague hit San Francisco -
Cholera
Cholera left India -
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister practice of medical asepsis. -
London
Doctors made a connection between disease and unsanitary conditions. -
discoveries
discoveries of x-rays, organ transplants, and cat scans. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Medical practices
Medical practices were available, mostly through missionaries. -
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming discovered penicilin. -
insurance
First HMO insurance -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk discovers polio vaccine. -
Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots to treat infectious wounds. -
Gardasil
Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved my the FDA -
smoking
Anti smoking laws -
Jean-Michel Dubernard
Jean-Michel Dubernard created face transplants. -
Stem cells
Doctors began to induce potential stem cells and cloned human cells.
