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founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease
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wrote on botany and pharmacy, studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine
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carried out the first systematic human dissections
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pioneered the treatment of gunshot wounds
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Describes the circulation of blood through the lungs. He is accused of heresy and burned at the stake
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Describes the circulation of blood through the lungs in detail
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gives the first smallpox inoculations in Europe
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discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
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Rages against the prevalent practice of bloodletting as a universal cure and founds homeopathy
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Develops a smallpox vaccination method
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Discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
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discovers how to prevent puerperal fever
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establish the germ theory of disease
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develops a chemotherapeutic cure for streptococcus
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discovers prefrontal lobotomy for treating mental diseases
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performs the first human heart-lung combined transplant
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discovers the existence of different human blood types
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Telesurgery
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Doctors without Borders alerted the World Health Organization to the threat of the SARS virus, triggering the most effective response to an epidemic in history. Urbani succumbs to the disease himself in less than a month.
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performs the first partial face transplant
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performs the first full face transplant
