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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad.
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Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
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Medical care becomes regulated.
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Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
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French woman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied.
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The printing press allowed discoveries to be shared across the world so everyone could use them.
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Use of the scientific method is implemented.
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William Harvey discovered that the heart pumped blood around the body and that the heart had two distinct beating halves by studying dead dogs.
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Robert Hooke invents the reflective telescope.
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Sir Francis Bacon discovers the plague fleas.
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.
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Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination for small pox.
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John Snow stops an outbreak of cholera.
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Felix Hoffmann consulted the chemical formula and came across the synthesis of acetylsalicylic acid and then prepared the first sample of pure acetylsalicylic acid.
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The bubonic plague hits San Francisco California.
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers the X-ray beam.
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Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin over 17 years. (1928-1945)
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Jonas Stalk discovers the vaccine for polio.
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The first successful living-related kidney transplant led by Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in Boston.
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The World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated.
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Steve Thomas uses sterile maggots for infected wound treatment.
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Led by Aristides Patrinos in 2003 the HGP was completed allowing for individualized medications and treatments.
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Touch Edinburgh Modular Arm System (EMAS) created the first bionic prosthetic which was the hand. Other body parts followed in years to come.
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The first known artificial heart was placed in a patient, who died later that year on August 23.
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Full replacement of person’s face was carried out by 30 surgeons in Spain in 2010.
