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Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses.
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Zacharius 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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James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy.
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Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York.
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Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe.