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Hippocrates becomes the founder of Western medicine. Also when people join the medical field now they have to say the Hippocratic Oath.
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The Middle age is also known as the dark age, and it was a time when health problems were considered to have spiritual causes and solutions.
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Aaron of Alexandria Syriac, wrote 30 books on medicine, the "Pandects". He was also the first author in antiquity who mentioned the diseases of small pox and measles.
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Congregation of the Antonines, was founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease.
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Ibn an-Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation.
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Made health care avaliable for the sick.
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The Black Plauge or Black Death was also know as the bubonic plauge and there were many new public health initiatives developed during this time to help stop the spread of the disease.
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Frech woman, Jacoba Felicie, tries to practice medicine but is denied.
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An institution for the mentally ill is established in Valencia, Spain.
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Leonardo da Vinci produces wax cast of human ventricles.
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Felix Platter states that the lens of the eye only focuses light and the retina is where images are formed.
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The scientific method was now being put into play and the world began to go a more scientific route in health care.
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At this point in time people began to see that saints as well as sinners got sick and began observations to find more accurate causes of diseases and other sicknesses.
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Thomas Willis describes the eleventh cranial nerve (accessory nerve) and suggests that cerebrospinal fluid is produced by the choroid plexus.
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Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to discover bacteria and other microscopic organisms using a rudimentary microscope.
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Jacques Daviel performs the first cataract extraction on a living human eye
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Edward Jenner discovers the first vaccination to help increase people's defenses against sicknesses.
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The Marine Hospital Service was established on July 16 as an act for the relief for sick and disabled seamen.
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Igaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing to reduce the spread of germs.
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John Snow is able to stop an outbreak of Cholera.
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The National Board of Health was created by law and it represented the first organized, comprehensive, national medical research effort of the Federal Government.
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A drug used to cure syphilis is discovered.
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Salk discovers the vaccine to the polio disease that had burdened many people.
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Managed health care has begun and there is a growth in the uninsured. This continued until 1998.
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Thomas uses sterile maggots for the first time to treat and infectious wound.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cell.
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Edward Jenner discovers the first vaccination to help increase people's defenses against sicknesses.
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Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
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Benedictine hospital was founded, and the School of Salerno would soon grow around it.
