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Galen was a Roman doctor who approved of practicing tracheotomy, a younger doctor by the name of Ibn Zuhr performed the first succesful tracheotomy on a goat backing up Galen
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Leprosy had an outbreak in the 500's and ending in the 1200's. This desease physically disfigured people and anyone who had it was refered to has a leper and looked down upon
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The Black Plague appears killing a quarter of Europe's population until disappearing with the mass extermination of rats
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Islamic hospitals started providing health care for their citizens
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The French woman Jacoba Felicie is denied the chance to practice medicine
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The use of the scientific method becomes widely and accepted known in the scientific world.
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THe most dadly and uncurable of diseases appears, Cancer
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Robert Hooke, the succesful physician and medical instrument maker, makes the first reflective microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, an unlikely scientist because of his lack of knowledge, discovers bacteria throwing him back into the scientific world
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Francis Bacon using a reflective microscope discovers the first plague fleas
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A scientist by the name of Edward Jenner discovers the proccess vaccination and saves hundreds of lives
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The microbiologist Louis Pasteur discovers how to pasteurize milk
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Joseph Lister introduced the the practice of medical asepsis
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Robert Koch discovered pathogens (anything that can create or lead to a disease)
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Ignaz Semmelweis theorizes the importance of hand washing, using his hospita and midwives as examples saying midwives, who do wash hands, had three times less the mortality rate than his hospital.
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John Snow stopped the outbreak of cholera by looking at the design of his city and telling people to clean the city, noting that all outbreaks were centered around only choice water pumps
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The female scientist Marie Curie discovers the science of radioactivity
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The bubonic plague hits San Francisco, a plague know for traveling in small rodents and fleas
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Penicillin is discovered and made by Alexander Fleming
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The fisrt HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) Insurance was made
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Jonas Salk creates the polio vaccination by taking dead polio cells and injecting them into humans
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The use of AZT to combat AIDS is approved by the goverment
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Gardasil, a vacine to prevent cervical cancer, approved by the FDA
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A doctor named Rhazes notices the difference between small pox and measles when he called for an examination to be able to differentiate the two diseases.
