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The first pharmacy was opened in Baghdad
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Rhazes discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
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Around this time university started teaching more medicine and the practice of it.
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Theodoric Borgognoni would make patients fall unconscious by placing a sponge soaked in opium, mandrake, hemlock and other substances under their nose.
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Bandages pre-soaked in wine were used as a form of disinfected
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Architect Brunelleschi made the first portable watch was very important such as when timing pregnancy contractions and how much blood had been lost in a matter time and calculating bpm.
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Andreas Vesalius dissected human bodies and made detailed drawings of everything, this increased the knowledge of anatomy in the human body.
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The microscope was and it had developed magnification up to 270x over the years.
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William Harvey discovered the circulatory system and explained how it acted like a muscle and it contracted.
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Allowed for publication of medical discoveries.
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He invents the stethoscope.
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German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.
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Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat.
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South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant.
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A draft of the human genome was created to investigate bacteria in are body even further.
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A mini liver is generate from human cord blood stem cells by doctors at Newcastle University, U.K
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Doctor began to induce potential stem cells and also cloned human stem cells
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No smoke laws and campaigns reduce public smoking to try to reduce secondhand smoke.
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Advanced prosthetic leg that communicates with the users mind
