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Period: 500 to
Medical History
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 9, 1140
Roger of Sicily forbade anyone from practicing medicine without a license
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 4, 1300
Islamic hospitals;health care for the sick
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Sep 9, 1347
An outbreak of bubonic plague broke out in Istanbul (modern day Turkey).
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Sep 4, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Sep 9, 1500
physicians began to learn more about the human body
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke reflective microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas
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anecdotal began to gave way to the tried and tested.
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Humphry Davy discovered several chemical elements and compoundsinvented miner’s safety lamp
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Edward Jenner develops a method to protect people from smallpox by exposing them to the cowpox virus.
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Robert Koch founder of bacteriology discovered the anthrax disease cyclediscovered the bacteria responsible for TB and cholera
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Period: to
Modern World
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bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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First vaccine for lyme disease
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First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later.
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discovered how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney
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DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth was spliced into that of an elephant. Scientists then successfully used the "revived" DNA to sequence the mammoth's complete genome.
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
Galen; tracheotomy
