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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 4, 1100
Medical care becomes regulated
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Sep 4, 1100
Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissances
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Sep 4, 1300
Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick
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Sep 4, 1400
Frenchwomen Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Sep 9, 1440
Printing press allows for publication of discoveries
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Use of scientific method begins
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Robert Hooke invented one of the reflective microscopes
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon uses mircoscope to discover plague fleas
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Microscopes were used to see blood, bacteria and protozoa
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination
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Stethoscope was invented
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Louis Pasteur does the pasteuration of milk
CDC reported that unpasteurized milk is 150 times more likely to cause foodborne illness and results in 13 times more hospitalizations and paients for doctors and nurses. -
Robert Koch discovery of pathogens
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Period: to
Modern World
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
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Modern medicine is based on the dicoveries and developments of the nineteenth century
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Beganing of modern bacteriology
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Salk discovers polio vaccine
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Rhazes discovered difference between chicken pox and measles
