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100
Bloodletting or leeches were used as medical treatment.
What is Ancient Egyptians?
100
Lead to the development of pharmacies.
What is Apothecaries?
100
The "Father of Medicine"
Who is Hippocrates?
100
The "Father of Microbiology".
Who is Louis Pasteur?
100
Infection control methods were developed once this was associated with disease.
What is microorganisms?
200
An invention during this time allowed medical knowledge to be shared.
What is Renaissance?
200
First vaccine developed.
What is smallpox?
200
Invented bifocals.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The first female physician.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
200
Formal training began for this career.
What is nursing?
300
Believed illness was a result of natural causes.
What is Ancient Greeks?
300
When the first vaccine was developed
What is 1796?
300
Anton van Leeuwenhoek observed this type of bacteria?
What is bacteria that causes tooth decay?
300
Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplant then.
When is 1968?
300
Blood groups discovered
What is ABO?
400
During the Middle ages this killed 75% of the population.
What is bubonic plague?
400
When the microscope was invented.
What is 1666?
400
Discovered penicillin
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?
400
His accidental discovery of the X-ray has allowed doctors to see inside the body.
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
400
First artifical one was developed.
What is heart?
500
Used trepanation as a treatment.
What is Primitive times?
500

Discovered that blood circulates around the body and the heart act as a pump with valves

Who was William Harvey

500
Florence Nightingale established efficient and sanitary nursing units during this war.
What is the Crimean War?
500
These two people discovered the polio vaccine.
Who are Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin?
500
Provided an alternate to private insurance.
What is HMOs?