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200
Galen; Tracheotomy
Credit Asclepiades as being the first physician to perform a non-emergency tracheotomy. -
Period: 200 to
Medical History
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Period: 200 to Sep 9, 1400
Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 1300
Islmic Hospitals
Health care is provided for the sick -
Sep 8, 1400
Frenchwoman
Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied due to her lack of license and gender. -
Scientific Method
Emergance of modern science, the use of the scientific method begins. -
Period: to
Renaissance
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Robert Hooke
Reflective microscope, which influenced microscope makers. -
Antonie Van Leeuwanhoek
Antonie Vann Leeuwanhoak was the first to describe bacteria and animalcules. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon used microscopes to discover plague fleas, cause behind life threatening diease. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination for smallpox. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur; microbiology. Pasteurization of milk. -
Robert Koch
Discovery of pathogens. -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing to avoid the spread of germs and disease. -
John Snow
John Snow stops outbreak of cholera. -
Joseph Lister
Practice of medical asepsis. -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie discovers science of redioactivity. -
Bubonic Plage
Bubonic Plage hits San Francisco, wiping out city with casulities. -
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Felming discovers penicillin to help people in need of help. -
HMO
First "Health Maintance Organization" incurance. -
Period: to
Modern World
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Salk
Salk discovers Polio Vaccine, oral to fight Polio Virus. -
Eradicated
Declares smallpox, one of the worlds most devastating diseases. eradicated. -
Health Care
Managed helath care; growth in uninsured. -
AZT
AZT is used to combat AIDS (sexually transmitted disease) -
Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas
Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment. -
Gardasil
Garadsail, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA. -
MIPPA
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, provides incentives for practitoners who use elctronic health records and e-prescribing. -
AbioCor
The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artifical heart placed in a patient. -
Rhazes Discovery
Discovered the difference between smallpox (infection) and measles (virus)
