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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 1300
Mental illness was widespread
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Oct 1, 1337
Black Death broke out in Southern China
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Sep 10, 1348
used a method to work out the death rate by examining the names of the vicars of a prticular peerish
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Sep 1, 1400
Outbreak of typhoid fever
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Sep 10, 1500
great pox broke out
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius was the author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy "De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Structure of the Human Body)"
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Sep 15, 1552
Several surgical instruments were invented by Ambroise Paré
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Sep 10, 1553
Girolamo Fracastoro put the idea out that epidemics may be caused by pathogens from outside of the body
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William Harvey an English doctor was the first person to properly describe the systemic circulation and properties of blood, which is pumped around the body by the heart
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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There was a cholera outbreak
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Herman von Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope
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typhoid came through
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Microbes were only discovered by Louis Pasteur
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Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays
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Period: to
Modern World
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Thomas Fogarty invented the balloon embolectomy catheter
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First test-tube baby is born
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Alec Jeffreys creates a genetic fingerprinting method
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Smallpox is eradicated
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First vaccine developed for hepatitis A
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Razes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
