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(753 BCE-410 CE) Early hospitals developed, began public health and sanitation systems, created aqueducts, built sewers, etc
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The study of medical science stopped, as the church became the primary means of healthcare. They used herbal medicines/remedies. Dark/Middle Ages were struck with many plagues and epidemics including bubonic plague, small pox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis.
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There was a rebirth of science. Medical schools were built. The printing press had made books possible and they shared their knowledge. They began accepting the study of the body by dissection.
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Leonardo Davinci and Michaelangelo
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William Harvey
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Ben Franklin--knowledge that the cold can be spread from person to person
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John Hunter
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Edward Jenner
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James Blundell
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Rene Laennec
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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Florence Nightengale--started first school of nursing during the CRIMEAN WAR. Made nursing an honorable profession.
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Dorathea Dix
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Joseph Lister
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Robert Koch
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Clara Barton--Angel of the Battlefield
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Louis Pasteur--pasteurizing milk
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Dimitri Ivanofski
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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Almroth Wright
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Marie Curie
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