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Period: 500 to
Medical Invetsigations
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Sep 8, 1212
Joannes Zacharias Actuarius
Joannes Zacharias Actuarius was a Byzantine doctor in Constantinople -
Jan 1, 1300
Black death
but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black. -
Jan 1, 1300
Spotted fever
any of a number of diseases characterized by fever and skin spots.
cerebrospinal meningitis.
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Jan 1, 1300
Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by either of two virus variants,
Infection with smallpox is focused in small blood vessels of the skin and in the mouth and throat before disseminating. In the skin it results in a characteristic maculopapular rash and, later, raised fluid-filled blisters. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Sep 9, 1347
The pneumonic plague
The pneumonic plague was much more dangerous than the bubonic plague. This variation of the disease affected the host's respiratory system and was an airborne disease. -
Sep 4, 1400
Frenchwoman tries to practice medicine but is denied
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Sep 8, 1493
Birth of Paracelsus
Paracelsus was one of the prime movers in the shift away from superstition and dogma in medicine, causing Renaissance physicians to rethink how they approached illness. -
Sep 9, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
published an exquisitely illustrated anatomy text. With knowledge based on extensive dissection of human cadavers, he presented the first largely accurate description of the human body. -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes batceria
This would have been enough to exclude him from the scientific community of his time completely. Yet with skill, diligence, an endless curiosity, and an open mind free of the scientific dogma of his day, Leeuwenhoek succeeded in making some of the most important discoveries in the history of biology. It was he who discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes and rotifers, and much more. His researches, which were widely circ -
Period: to
Industrianl Revolution
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Edward Jenner discovers 1st vacination
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Joseph Lister practices medical asepsis
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Cholera
Cholera was a greatly feared disease. Caused by contaminated water, it could spread with speed and with devastating consequences. Not for nothing did the disease get the nick-name “King Cholera“. Industrial Britain was hit by an outbreak of cholera in 1831-32, 1848-49, 1854 and 1867. The cause was simple – sewage was being allowed to come into contact with drinking water and contaminating it. As many people used river water as their source of drinking water, the disease spread with ease. -
Robert Koch discovers pathogens
Robert Heinrich Herman Koch was a celebrated German physician and pioneering microbiologist. The founder of modern bacteriology -
John Snow stops an outnreak of Cholera
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Marie Curie discovers radioactivitie
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Period: to
The Modern World
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Bubonic plague hits San Fransisco
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Qlexander Flaming discovers penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. -
First HMO insurance
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Period: to
The 21st century
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Human geome project
In 2003 scientiist announced they had completed a complete graph of the human geome. -
Ebola vaccines
Novavax, a biotech company in the US, has developed a recombinant protein Ebola vaccine candidate based on the Guinea 2014 Ebola virus strain and has completed a Phase I human clinical trials in Australia. -
rhazes discovers the difference between Smallpox and Measles
