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Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
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Medical care becomes regulated. Around 950.
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Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill. Around 950.
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Avicenna writes the book of healing
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There is now Islamic hospitals to help the sick.
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De Fabrica Corporis Humani is published with the findings on human anatomy.
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The microscope is invented.
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William Harvey forms the beginning ground on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
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People start to experiment with blood transfusions with canines.
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Blood cells are discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Bacteria is discovered.
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Benjamin Waterhouse helps introduce the smallpox vaccine.
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The stethoscope is invented.
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Child bed fever cure and prevention was found by Olive Wendall Holmes.
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The first public demonstration of anesthesia on a patient is done in public.
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Reginald Heber Fitz describes the first appendicitis and advocates performing appendectomies.
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Aspirin is developed.
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Paul White introduces electrocardiograph to the U.S..
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Philip Drinker makes the Iron Lung to help polio-paralyzed patients breath.
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Carl Walter, John Merrill and George Thorn perfect the kidney for clinical use.
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Joseph Murray performs the first successful kidney transplant on identical twins.
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Photo chemotherapy is invented to help treat disorders like psoriasis.
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Researchers discover that brain abnormalities can be associated with abuse and neglect.
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HMS neurobiology researchers find a pathway involved on how the brains circadian clock sends signals to control the bodies daily rhythms.
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People find a pathway linked to cartilage deterioration and bone attrition of rheumatoid arthritis.
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The source of preclampsia is found, a complication of pregnancy.
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Mary and her colleagues discover the poor prenatal nutrition can permanently damage the insulin-producing cells in an embryos pancreas.
