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Barber-surgeons cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symble popularized.
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Barber-surgeons cut hair, perform surgery; barber pole symble popularized.
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Doctors began to keep notes on their cases.
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Medical care becomes regulated.
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Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick.
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Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Human anatomical studies allowed.
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Use of scientific method begins.
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Printing press allows for publication of discoveries.
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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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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.
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Edward Jenner discovered the 1st vaccination
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Louis Pasteur (microbiology) - pasteurization of milk.
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Joseph Lister- practice of medical asepsis
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Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens.
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing.
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera
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Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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Alexander Fleming dicovers penicillin
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First HMO insurance
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Salk dicovers polio vaccine
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Managed health care; growth in uninsured
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.
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Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
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Rhazes discovered differemce between small pox and measles
