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1950: Medical advancement: Mass tuberculosis immunization is under way with the BCG vaccine. This vaccine is recommended to be given intradermally, immediately after birth. This vaccine is mandatory to attend school in France between 1950 and 2007, introduced in Brazil in 1967, and to the Philippines in 1979. [40] [47] [48] Tuberculosis: 1952 ...
1590 – Microscope was invented, which played a huge part in medical advancement; 1596 – Li Shizhen publishes Běncǎo Gāngmù or Compendium of Materia Medica; 1603 – Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heart; 1621 – 1676 – Richard Wiseman [36] [43] [59] [64] [65]
This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in a given country is expected to live if mortality ...
Contraceptive drugs were developed, which reduced population growth rates in industrialized countries, as well as decreased the taboo of premarital sex throughout many western countries. The development of medical insulin during the 1920s helped raise the life expectancy of diabetics to three times of what it had been earlier.
Many early innovations of the Bronze Age were prompted by the increase in trade, and this also applies to the scientific advances of this period. For context, the major civilizations of this period are Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, with Greece rising in importance towards the end of the third millennium BC.
This is a list of countries by quality of healthcare as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . [ 1 ] The list includes 7 types of cancer along with strokes and heart attacks.
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]
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.