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Hippocrates
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(1069-653 BC) First people to keep medical records
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The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other Eurpoean countries. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine.
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Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited (1450-1863)
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Leonardo Davinci disects human corpses.
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Leonardo DaVinci
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Zacharias Jannssen invents the microscope
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Created the first mercury thermometer
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy.
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Created by Edward Jenner
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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(1822-2895) Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria
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Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic.
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Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe
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Founded the practice of nursing
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Started the idea of using antiseptics and disinfectants during surgery
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Clara Barton
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First contact lenses developed.
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William Roentgen
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Marie Curie isolated radium in 1910.
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1914-1918
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Outbreak of influenza that causes several thousands to die. First time we learned about disease spreading.
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Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid
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Iron lung is used to help patients with polio breathe.
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Discovered by sir Alexander Flemming
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The first forms of amputation were started and need for clean medical equipment arose.
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The World Health Organization is formed,
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John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker.
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Jonas Salk
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James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule
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Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans
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Smallpox is eradicated
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
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Alec Jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method
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Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine.
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
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(865-925 AD)An arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material