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Period: 500 to
The History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 9, 1000
Health care becomes regulated
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Sep 11, 1000
Surgery is considered profession
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Sep 9, 1200
Galen; tracheotomy
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Sep 9, 1247
Black death
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Sep 9, 1350
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Sep 9, 1400
French woman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Sep 9, 1494
Syphilis was first recorded in Europe
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Using scientific method begins
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Human anatomical studies allowed
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Robert Hooke: reflective microscpe
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francses Bacon uses microscope to discover plaque as fleas
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Edward Jenner discovered first vaccination
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Period: to
The Modern World
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Alexender Fleming; pinicillin
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First HMO insurance
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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Managed healthcare; uninsured
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Rhazes discovered the difference between small pox and measles
