History of Public Health: A Timeline: Media
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A worker administers water-purifying tablets for the Ministry of Public Health in...
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The world's oldest surviving surgical document, the Edwin Smith papyrus was written...
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Ruins of the Roman aqueduct at Caesarea Maritima, Israel.
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A lazzaretto was an island quarantine station where people, ships, and goods suspected...
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A replica of a microscope made by Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, in which...
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English surgeon Edward Jenner performing the first vaccination against smallpox,...
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In 1854 English physician John Snow traced a cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated...
From On the Mode of Communication of Cholera by John Snow, 1855. Image enhanced by UCLA Department of Epidemiology.
In the 19th century Louis Pasteur's work established the germ theory of disease,...
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One of the first and most widely used antibiotics, penicillin, derived from Penicillium mold.
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A doctor providing medical care to a Palestinian refugee under supervision of the...
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In the United States, mass vaccination programs carried out against diphtheria, polio,...
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U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton speaking at the World AIDS Day event at Rankin Chapel in...
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The first COVID-19 vaccines were developed and made available to the public under...
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