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Credit Asclepiades as being the first physician to perform a non-emergency tracheotomy.
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Health care is provided for the sick
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Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied due to her lack of license and gender.
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Emergance of modern science, the use of the scientific method begins.
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Reflective microscope, which influenced microscope makers.
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Antonie Vann Leeuwanhoak was the first to describe bacteria and animalcules.
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Francis Bacon used microscopes to discover plague fleas, cause behind life threatening diease.
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Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination for smallpox.
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Louis Pasteur; microbiology. Pasteurization of milk.
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Discovery of pathogens.
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing to avoid the spread of germs and disease.
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera.
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Practice of medical asepsis.
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Marie Curie discovers science of redioactivity.
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Bubonic Plage hits San Francisco, wiping out city with casulities.
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Alexander Felming discovers penicillin to help people in need of help.
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First "Health Maintance Organization" incurance.
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Salk discovers Polio Vaccine, oral to fight Polio Virus.
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Declares smallpox, one of the worlds most devastating diseases. eradicated.
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Managed helath care; growth in uninsured.
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AZT is used to combat AIDS (sexually transmitted disease)
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.
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Garadsail, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA.
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Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, provides incentives for practitoners who use elctronic health records and e-prescribing.
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The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artifical heart placed in a patient.
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Discovered the difference between smallpox (infection) and measles (virus)
