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The first medical school, the School of Salerno was established around the Benedictine hospital in Italy.
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Discovered difference between smallpox and measles
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Iraqi ophthalmologist, al-Mawsili used a suction technique to remove a cataract, marking the first successful eye surgery.
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The Congregation of the Antonines was founded to treat those suffering from ergotism.
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Court jester Rahere founded the Priory of the Hospital of St Bartholomew in London in 1123.
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Concave lens spectacles to treat myopia developed in Italy.
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Paracelsus openly acted defiant against the existing medical world by publicly burning medicial books, rejecting the use of occultism and the paranormal in medicine.
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Vesalius published the De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, which was a major advance in the history of anatomy, which also corrected previous Greek works of medicine.
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Fracastoro suggested that epidemic diseases are cause by transfer of small, seedlike entitities.
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Serveto was accused of heresy and burned at the stake for suggesting that blood circulated through the lungs.
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Amyand was a French-English surgeon who performed the first successful appendectomy in recorded history.
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Priestly was an English theologian who first discovered oxygen and ammonia.
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French physician René Laennec is known for inventing the stethoscope used for diagnosing chest problems.
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The first painless surgery was performed with the use of general anesthetic.
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The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania became the first medical school that trained women and offered them medical degrees. It was later named the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
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Lister was a British surgeon who pioneered the use of antiseptics in surgery and became the father of modern surgery.
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The first vaccine for tuberculosis created by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin was first used on humans in 1921.
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Alexander Flemming accidentally discovered penicillin when he set his cultures of staph out in his laboratory. It grew a fungus that destroyed all of the staph bacteria.
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Moniz discovered the use of prefrontal lobotomy to treat certain mental disorders.
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Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman discovered chemotherapy as a way to treat cancer.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is invented.
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The first full face transplant was performed in Spain on a man who accidentally shot himself in the face.
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Jacques Marescaux performed the first telesurgery. This is where the surgeon is not physically at the location, and uses a robotic surgery machine to perform it. This was called the Lindbergh Operation.
