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medieval china created amalgams and dental procedures such as tooth fillings
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the first pharmacy was opened
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Discovered the difference between small pox and measles
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Avicenna writes the book of healing and the Canon of Medicine
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spectacles were invented
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Da Vinci dissects corpses
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William Harvey publishes a study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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allowed for publications of medical discoveries
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Blood cells were discovered
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James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
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the first successful appendectomy was preformed
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Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease
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the first syringe was invented and doctors use these all the time today
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these were discovered to be the cause of disease
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this helped measure electrical activity in the heart
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this is used around the world in our day to day lives.
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Rosalind Franklin uses X-ray diffraction to study the structure of DNA
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Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
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For the first time the world can know what the 23,000 different genes do.
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the first artificial heart was made and placed in a man with heart failure and it was successful
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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development of the first prosthetic leg that communicates with the persons mind,
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