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Birth control pills were first legal and declared safe in 1960 and for married couples in 1965 and unmarried couples in 1972.
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The first pharmacy was established the year 754 in Baghdad. By the 12th century they could be found in Europe.
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Rhazes was the first person to take an authentic description of the symptoms of small poxs and measles. He lived from 860-932.
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Cleaning wounds began in the 13th century when a guy named Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antispectic method. Where wounds were to be clean and sutured to promote healing.
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Eye glasses by the end of the 13th century were common in Italy.
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Italian Physician Mondino De Luzzi conducted a public dissection in the year 1315, the follwing year he would write Anathomia corporis humani. Which is the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical writing.
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By the 14th century Florence at 34 hospitals
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Leonardo drew the first foetus of a womb during the Renaissance so physicans had a better understanding how to do surgeries and give the right medicine.
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Paracelus a physician, cured a patient of a leg infection in 1527 without amputating it.
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Ambroise Pare method for treating gun wounds were putting boiled oil on it. It worked (Method for Wounds Caused by Firearms)
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William Harvey studied a dying dog and found that the heart pumps blood all around the body, he also found that the heart has two distinct beating halves.
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Opium based pain killers were used during the Black death.
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Zacharius Jannssen invented the first microscope which allowed to see bacteria clearer and closer.
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Rene Laennec invented the first sthehoscope at 1818, a big advance for the medical field.
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On october 16th 1846 the first public demonstration of anesthesia took place at Massachusetts general hospital.
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X-Ray was first discovered in Germany by a man named Wilhelm Roentgen
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In 1899 aspirin was invented by a German chemist named, Felix Hoffman. One day he decided the juice from the willow tree bark would not be effective to relieve pain. He is best known for having synthesized acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) and joining the Bayer pharmaceutical research facility in England.
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All physicians have to take the hypocratic oath before they can work.
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Sir Alexander Fleming left out a petri dish of staph bacteria and later found that it was killed by a mold
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The first liver transplant was done in 1967
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CT scans were available at 1970
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The first fMRI was made in the 1990s
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Herceptin is a breast cancer drug that came into the scene at 1998 and is 25% more effective than drugs like chemotherapy.
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Heart disease deaths dropped by 40% in the 21st century, mainly because of new medicines and anti smoking laws.
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In 2000 scientist from the international human genome project released a rough draft of the human to the public of 23000 human genes and what they do.
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Doctors and patients can now contact each other quickly because of cellphones and information can be accessed when needed quickly and rapidly shared.
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Until 2002 most doctors belived that giving their female patients extra hormones such as estrogen made them healthier and protected them, they were wrong until a study found out it increased blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, etc.
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Anti smoking laws and no smoking signs were more common around to try to prevent diseases and reduce the amount of deaths
