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Chinese used accupuncture to relieve pain and congestion
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Romans began public health and sanitaation systems
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The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years
only herbal medicine was used -
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Plagues and emidemics such as dyptheria, bubonic plague, small pox, tuberculosis were rapidly spread during the dark and middle ages
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rebirth of science
medical schools were built
printing press made
study of body bu dissection was accepted -
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Leonardo Da Vinci drew detailed drawings of human muscles and parts during disections. He drew how he figured systems worked inside the body
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The church didnt approve of using bodies for dissection until now. during the renaissance
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William Harvey described how the heart pumps blood throughout the body and how blood circulates
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Edward Jenner discoveres that exposing peole to the cowpox virus can help protect them from the smallpox virus
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invented by Rene Laennec
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Ignaz semmelweis discovered that washing hands before delivering babies would prevent many deaths of mothers and babies
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman qualified Doctor
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Gregor Mendel established the patterns of heredity by growing and testing thousands of plants and their offspring
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Robert Koch discovered many disease causing organisms
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founded by Clara Barton
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anticeptics were first used during surgery by Joseph LIster
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Wilhem Roentgen discovered x-rays
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the big advancement of scope surgery is that large incisions are no longer needed for some repares or surgeries
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Sir Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin
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Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine
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preformed by Christian Barnard
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the first meningitis vaccine was created in 1978
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Louise Brown was the first test tube baby; born on July 25, 1978
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AIDS was announced to the world as a virus
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Dolly the sheep was cloned and was born July 5, 1996
