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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 1000
Medical care becomes more regular.
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Jan 1, 1300
Islamic hospitals;health care for the sick
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance Period
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Jan 1, 1350
Christian monasteries were founded to treat the ill.
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Jan 1, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tried to practice medicine but is denied.
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Jan 1, 1500
People began to look for the real causes of what they saw around them.
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Doctors could propose an explanation of diseas and test it.
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Human anatomical studies allowed.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.
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Francis Bacon
He used microscopes to descirbe bacteria. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa and stethoscope.
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Doctors discovered that bloos was carried through the body by large vessels.
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John Snow stops outbreak of Cholera.
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Joseph Lister discovers the practice of medical asepsis.
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Period: to
Modern Times
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Bubonic Plague hits San Fransico
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Discovery of organ transplants, X-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, Cat Scans
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by th FDA.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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Rhazes discovered the difference bettween smallpox and measles.
