Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
Sep 9, 1440
Printing press allows for publication of discoveries
Use of scientific method begins
Robert Hooke invented one of the reflective microscopes
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Industrial Revolution
Francis Bacon uses mircoscope to discover plague fleas
Microscopes were used to see blood, bacteria and protozoa
Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
Stethoscope was invented
Louis Pasteur does the pasteuration of milk
CDC reported that unpasteurized milk is 150 times more likely to cause foodborne illness and results in 13 times more hospitalizations and paients for doctors and nurses.
Robert Koch discovery of pathogens
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Modern World
Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
Modern medicine is based on the dicoveries and developments of the nineteenth century
Beganing of modern bacteriology
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Salk discovers polio vaccine
Rhazes discovered difference between chicken pox and measles