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200
Galen clarified the anatomy of the trachea and was the first to demonstrate that the larynx generates the voice.
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Period: 200 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 1100
Autopsies start being preformed
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Jan 1, 1167
Oxford starts teaching medicine.
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic Hospitals are formed to help the sick
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1350
Black Plague spreads through killing an estimated 25 million
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Jan 1, 1400
Jocaba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied because she's a woman
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Use of Scientific Method Begins
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Robert Hooke creates many of the earliest refective microscopes
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek starts studying microbiology and bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovers first vaccination
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Louis Pasteur invented the pasteurization of milk.
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Robert Koch discovers pathogens
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of handwashing
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John Snow stops the outbreak of Cholera
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Marie Curie discovers the science of radioactivity
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Bubonic Plague hits San Francisgo
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Period: to
Modern World
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First medical insurance policies are constructed
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Salik discovers polio vaccines
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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azidothymidine is used to combat aids.
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Sterile Maggots are used by Steve Thomas to treat infectious wounds
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Gardasil, a medicine used to prevent cervical cancer is approved by the FDA
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First FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart pleaced in a patient.
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World Health Organization declares smallpox is eradicated.
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
