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200
Barber-surgeons cut hair and performed surgery
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200
Galen played a role in the development of tracheotomy
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Feb 8, 900
Difference between smallpox and measles
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Nov 6, 1300
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Mar 18, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but gets denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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The use of scientific method begins
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Printing press allows for publication of discoveries
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Human anatomical studies allowed
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Robert Hooke created the reflective mircoscope
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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Louis Pasteur (microbiology) - pasteurization of milk
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Robert Koch discovery of pathogens
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows importance of hand washing
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Marie Curie discovers science of radioactivity
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Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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First HMO insurance
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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Managed heal care; growth in insurance
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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Period: to
21st Century
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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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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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MIPPA (Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act) MIPPA provides incentives for practitioners who use electric health records and e-prescribing
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The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient
