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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Aug 31, 872
Hospital
In Cairo, the first hospital was established -
Aug 31, 900
Difference between smallpox and measles discovered
by Rhazes -
Aug 31, 900
Rhazes
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Aug 31, 1322
Woman denied entry to a medical school
Frenchwoman, Jacoba Felicie who tries to practice medicine but is denied by the Facility of Medicine at the University of Paris. -
Aug 31, 1322
Jacoba Felicie
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Scientific Method
scientists started to use the scientific method around this time. -
Reflective Microscope
first reflective microscope was built by Robert Hooke -
Robert Hooke
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Bacteria is described
bacteria was first described by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Plague Fleas
Francis Bacon discovered plague fleas with a microscope -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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1st vaccination
Discovered by Edward Jenner -
Louis Pasteur
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Robert Koch
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Cholera outbreak stopped
Stopped by John Snow -
Pasteurization of Milk
Louis Pasteur -
Marie Curie
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Pathogens are discovered
By Robert Koch -
Period: to
Modern World
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming
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Penicillin discovered
by Alexander Fleming -
Polio vaccine discovered
by Salk -
Jonas Salk
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Smallpox declared eradicated
by WHO (World Health Organization) -
AZT battles AIDS
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Period: to
21st Century
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Period: to
21st Century
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Sterile maggots used for treatment
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots to treat an infectious wound -
Steve Thomas
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Human Genome Project completed
Scientists discover how to use stem cells and human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells. -
DNA identified
HGP completion identified a complete set of DNA. This allows new medicines and treatments to come about. -
FDA approves Gardasil
vaccine to prevent cervical cancer -
FDA
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MIPPA
(Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act) incentives for practitioners who use electronic health records -
First implanted AbioCor
An FDA approved AbioCor artificial heart was placed in a patient for the first time on June 24. The patient only lived until August 23, however, it was a huge growth for medicine
