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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Period: 500 to
Medical History
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Sep 8, 1300
There were scores of hospitals in the Muslim world based on the Qur'an (Koran)
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Sep 8, 1300
Islamic hospitals: healthcare for the sick
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Sep 8, 1400
Frenchwoman, Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Renaissance
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Sep 8, 1502
Invention of the printing press made it easier to publish books faster
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Scientific method came into use
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Robert Hooke built one of the first reflecting microscopes
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria
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Francis Bacon uses microscopoe to discover plague fleas
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Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids exposed to cowpox did not get smallpox
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, & stethoscopes
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Louis Pasteur carried out experiments that became basis for modern microbiology
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Joseph Lister was rediculed for insisting that the use of carbolic soap to disinfect surgical equipment & clean hands before docs moved to another patient
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Robert Koch discovered that pathogens are the source of some diseases and proved Lister correct
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Period: to
Modern Times
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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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WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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AZT is used to combat AIDS
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Period: to
21st Century
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Rhazes discovered difference between smallpox and measles
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Rhazes wrote his findings
