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Rebirth of science
medical schools were built
Printing press was created (made medical books easier)
Human Disection was started (often crimals were sentenced to death by this and helped discover how the body worked) -
Leonardo da Vinci drew pictures of the disected human body
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Anton von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope
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William Harvey described the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart
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Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer.
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Alexander Cummings invented the flush toilet.
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Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals and discovered that colds could be passed from person to person
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The first ambulance was invented
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Edward Jenner invented the vaccination for small pox while he was trying to find a vaccination for cow pox.
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The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph of outside his window. The picute took 8 hours to take.
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope
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W.A. Burt invented the typewriter
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Ignas Semmelweiss discovered that many of the causes for maternal infections were due to people coming from a cadaver lab and not washing hands. Ignas Semmelweiss died from a cut during an autopsy.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. She inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
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Sigmund Freud studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. He realized that the mind and body work together. Father of psychology.
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Gregor Mendel establised the patterns of heredity
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Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing during the Crimean war and made nursing an honorable profession.
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Louis Pasteur created the rabies vaccine and proved that microorgansisms caused disease. He also discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria (pasteurization).
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Joseph Lister was the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision.
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Robert Koch discovered many diease causing organisms such as anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera. He is know as the Father of Microbiology.
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Clara Barton started the American Red Cross. Clara Barton was known as the "angel of the battlefeild"
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William Roentgen discover x-rays which allowed doctors to see inside the body to figure out what was wrong with a patient
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The birth of the Teddy Bear occured.
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Mary Phelps Jacob invented the bra. Gideon Sundback invented the zipper.
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Earle Dickson invented the band-aid
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Garret A. Morgan invented the traffic signal
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Phillip Drunker invented the iron lung
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first anibiotic. Considered one of the most important discoveries of 20th century.
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The atomic bomb was invented. The U.S. was the first to use it on Japan.
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The cell phone was invented but not sold comercially until 1983
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Jonas Salk discovered an altered polio virus vaccine.
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Oral contraceptives or the pill were invented
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Albert Sabin created an oral polio vaccine that was more effective than Salks vaccine
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The soft contact lense was invented
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Christan Bernard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.
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Herb Boyer and Stanley Cohen invented gene splicing
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Giorgio Fischer invented liposuction.
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Louise Brown was the first baby born with invitro fertilization or test tube baby.
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Scott olson invented rollerblades.
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Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease.
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Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned.
