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Barbers were also the surgeons. The people that cut your hair are the people that did your surgerys.
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Galen; tracheotomy
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Medical care becomes regulated
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Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
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Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick.
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Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied. Women were not allowed to do anything with mdicine, people thought their plce was in the kitchen.
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Human anatomical studies allowed.
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Use of scientific method begins, this was easier to do alot of tasks.
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Printing press allows for publication of discoveries. Makes it easier for doctors.
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Robert Hooke- reflective microscope
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria. He helped people understand what bacteria was.
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Francis Baron uses microscope to discover plague fleas. The micrscope helped dicover more things.
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DIscovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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Louis Pasteur (microbiology) pasteurization of milk
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Ignaz Semmelwis shows importance of washing hands.
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John Snow stops outbreak of Cholera
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Discovey of organ transplants, x-rays, redium for cancer treatment, MRI, and cat scans. All of these discoveries help in some way.
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Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity.
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Bubonic plague hits San Fransico
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First HMO insurance
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Salk discovers polio vacine. The vacine helps people that has polio.
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Managed health care; growth in unisured.
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They discovered a difference between smallpox and measles. Smallpox is like chicken pox and the measles are harder to get rid of.