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Galen performed the first tracheotomy.
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Barber surgeons begin cutting hair, performing small surgeries, and the barber pole symbols popularized.
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Roger Bacon invents the first spectacles.
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Islamic hospitals provides health care for the sick.
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Christian monasteries began being founded to treat the ill.
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French woman, Jacqueline Felicie, tries to practice medicine but is denied into universities because of her gender.
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Human anatomical studies became allowed after being banned.
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Use of the scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke-reflective microscope
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria with the use of a microscpe.
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover pague fleas.
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In 1795 the discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope took place.
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Edward Jenner discovered first vacination.
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Joseph Lister practices medical aspesis for the fisrt time in history.
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Robert Koch discovers the first pathogens.
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of handwashing.
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John Snow stops the outbreak of cholera.
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Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity.
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco. The plague was most likely brought by rats onboard a ship from Hong Kong.
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Discovery of organ transplants, X-Rays, rabium for cancer treatment, MRI, and cat scans.
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Alexander Flemina discovers penicillin.
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First health maintence organization (HMO) creates insurance.
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Salk discovers polio vaccine.
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Healthcare becomes managed and the rates of uninsured grows.
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Who declares smallpox was eradicated.
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Azidothymidine (AZT) is used for the fisrt time to combat AIDS.
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Medical care becomes regulated for the first time.
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Persian physician Rhazes provides the first medical description of smallpox and explains how the illness was transmitted from person to person. He also gave a reason for why surviors of smallpox never get it again.
