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The first pharmacy helped the development of drugs and helped people in learning how to make them.
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The earliest known hospital to be built was in 820 in the monastery of St Gall. This allowed for patients to come get the proper care and medicine they need.
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Rhazes had discovered the difference between measles and smallpox.
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Laws were beginning to be put in place as a way of making premedical education more important. It stabilized medical education methods as well. These laws were created by Frederick the II.
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The medical school in Montpellier was founded in 1289. Anyone of any race, gender, or religion was allowed to teach there as long as they had a medical degree thanks to Count Guilhem VIII. This allowed to employee many people to get a job in teaching medicine, and gave people the ability to go get a medical degree.
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Human anatomy studies were allowed and gave the doctors a way to figure out new ways of helping people with problems with their bodies
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The treatises called the "Paragranum" covered Paracelsus' ideas of how he approached surgeries and treatment. It helped doctors to understand how things can be treated differently from before. Paracelsus was famous for his different surgeries.
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Harvey discovered that the heart had two halves and that it pumped blood throughout the body. He did this by studying dying dogs. This helped doctors to see that the body had different systems that worked with each other to help the body flow and function.
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Allowed for publication of medical discoveries
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Leeuwenhoek described what bacteria looked like and gave the doctors an idea of what to look under a microscope.
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Jenner discovered a vaccination for smallpox in 1796. He observed that people who got cowpox were not getting smallpox. This lead to a test of injecting cowpox in to a boy and then smallpox, and sure enough the boy did not get smallpox.
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Ether was the first anesthetic used on someone by a Boston dentist. It made it so the patient fell asleep and had a painless surgery.
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Elizabeth was the first women in the U.S. to earn a medical degree. This opened up the doors for women doctors in the U.S. This allowed for that sexism to be broken and new boundaries to be set in the medical world for women. They could now give medical care as a passion with a little less judgement.
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The first vaccine for cholera helps the people to not die from cholera anymore.
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A German physicist discovered the concept of x-ray when looking at a cathode-ray tube and a florescent glow coming off. He discovered it could go through black paper, and it could pass through human skin tissue but just not bones.
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Tests were conducted on arsphenamine, and the success launched the treatment of infectious diseases and the Chemotherapeutic Era.
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Hopkins had a few discoveries in the field of nutrition. He helped in the creating of vitamins which now help with the health of many people.
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In 1921, pancrein was discovered in pancreatic extracts. It was then used on diabetic dogs, and it caused the blood glucose levels to decrease.
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Flemming discovered penicillin which furthered developments in antibiotics.
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An efficient vaccination was created in the 1930s that worked against Tetanus.
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Scientists went more in depth into the about 23,000 genes and what they do.
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The Clean Indoor Air Act banned smoking in enclosed public areas. This causes less second hand smoke.
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Obama created the Obamacare which makes it so that everyone can get healthcare.
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The USDA Center started MyPlate and ended the food pyramid as a way to show kids how to have a nutritional meal that helps keep their body healthy now so they will not have to go through harder and more medicated lives in the future.
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Approval was given in 2013 to be able to make cocktails of 4 different HIV pills for one dose.
