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Discovered difference between measles and smallpox
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Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia written in circa 1030 which summarized the medicine of Greek, Indian and Muslim physicians, was written.
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Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
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He was the first to explain the pulmonary circulation of blood, he is know as the father of circulatory physiology.
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Islamic hospitals were made to provide health care for the sick.
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She was denied access to practice medicine.
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
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Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria
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Leeuwenhoek can describe bacteria.
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Francis Bacon discovered plague fleas using a microscope.
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Edward Jenner discovered the first vaccination for smallpox.
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Joseph Lister begins the practice of Medical Asepsis
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Discovery of pathogens
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He shows the importance of hand washing.
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John Snow stops the cholera outbreak.
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The deadliest plague of all time hits San Francisco
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First person to discover penicillin
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Salk discovers polio vaccine.
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WHO declares smallpox officially eradicated.
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First person to use sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment
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Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, approved by the FDA
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Dr. GeroHütter was the first one to successfully cure an HIV/AIDS patient by transplanting bone marrow from an HIV-immune patient.
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The first FDA approved artificial heart called AbioCor is placed in a patient, the patient died on August 23.
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Students at Duke University have innovated new ways to improve surgical experiences by providing 3D visualization for surgeons.
