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The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800 (1995); excerpt and text search. Bynum, W.F. et al. The Western Medical Tradition: 1800–2000 (2006) excerpt and text search; Loudon, Irvine, ed. Western Medicine: An Illustrated History (1997) online Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine; McGrew, Roderick. Encyclopedia of Medical ...
An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race: Beginnings to 1900 (Routledge, 2012). Deutsch, Albert. The mentally ill in America-A History of their care and treatment from colonial times (1937). Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993) Duffy, John.
Major medical advances, such as the first vaccines or antibiotics for important diseases. Major disease outbreaks, particularly those that played a key role in identifying key medical facts about the nature of disease or epidemiology. Key programs, innovations, and strategies in delivery of treatments and healthcare supply chains.
Advances in biology led to large increases in food production, as well as the elimination of diseases such as polio. A massive amount of new technologies were developed in the 20th century. Technologies such as electricity , the incandescent light bulb , the automobile and the phonography , first developed at the end of the 19th century, were ...
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A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
The 3 Biggest Medical Advances of 2013. 2013 was a banner year for the health care industry, as major companies introduced new treatments capable of substantially improving the lives of patients.
1900–1920 Uganda African trypanosomiasis epidemic 1900–1920 Uganda: African trypanosomiasis: 200,000–300,000 [176] Papua New Guinea kuru epidemic 1901–2009 Papua New Guinea: Kuru: 2,700–3,000+ [181] [182] 1903 Fremantle plague epidemic (part of the third plague pandemic) 1903 Fremantle, Western Australia: Bubonic plague: 4 [183]