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200
Galen; tracheotomy
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
The Middle Ages
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Oct 5, 900
Rhazes descovers the differance between smallpox and measles
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Nov 15, 1000
Medical care becomes regulated
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Apr 30, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Jun 19, 1350
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Aug 21, 1400
Frenchwoman Jacoba Felices tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
The Renassances
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May 7, 1520
Human anatonical studies were allowed
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Use of scientific method begins
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Printing press allows for publication of discoveries
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Robert Hooke- descoverd the reflective microscope
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon uses micrscope to discover plague fleas
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope
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Period: to
The Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination
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Ignaz Semmelweis shows the importance of hang washing
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John Snow stops out break of Cholera
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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Period: to
The Modern World
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Discovery of Organ transplants, x-rays, radium for cancer treatment, MRI, CAT scans
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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First HMO insurance
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Salk discovers Polio Vaccine
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First HMO insurance
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Period: to
21st Century
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Steve Thomas used maggots for infectious wound treatment
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Gardasil a vaccine to prevent cervial cancer approved by FDA
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scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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The first FDA approved implanted abiocor artificial heart placed in a patient
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patiant died
