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emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited
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surgery was preformed by barbers because they had the tools to preform it
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Leonardo Da Vinci dissected the first human body
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals
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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek discovered blood cells in 1670
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child birth was attended by midwives; diseases spread fast because of the poor hygiene and sanitation
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Benjamin Franklin infented bifocals in 1784
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Edward Jenner developed the vaccine for smallpox in 1796
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816
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in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
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Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing in 1860
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Dysentery, measles, small pox, pneumonia, and malaria were the soldier's greatest enemy
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Joseph Lister was the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881
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William Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895
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Marie Curie isolated radium in 1910
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influenze killed more soldiers than bullets did
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928
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penicillin was discovered before the war but took awhile for it to be effective for the soldiers
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952
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Christian Barnard preformed the world's first heart transplant surgery in 1967
