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260
BC - Imhotep was named the Egyption king of medicine.
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Jun 18, 600
Aboriginal x ray art
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Jun 18, 600
BC Chinese used acupuncture
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René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
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A man named Edwin Smith bought a piece of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Paper and in 1930 it was translated to show detailed knowledge of the human body.
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First vaccine for cholera
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First vaccine for anthrax
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First vaccine for rabies
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Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
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German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.
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First vaccine for typhoid fever.
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First vaccine for plague.
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough).
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BC - Akkadian clay tablets on medicine survive primarily as copies of Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
