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The first pharmacy was established in Bagdad
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Ibn al Haytham came up with the new explanation for vision through his research on optics and the anatomy of the eye.
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Eyeglasses were invented to help correct vision and was well know in Italy
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A surgeon came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing.
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The concept of quarantine became popular in the aftermath of the Black Plague
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Cesarean Sections (C-Sections) became popularized when succes in performing the operation without threatning the mother and child's life
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Girolamo Fracastoro was the first doctor to suggest that human diseases were caused by pathogens.
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Hospitals were established in Europe that helped increase survival rates, 35 hospitals in Florence by the 15th century.
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After the Black Death in Europe, a German physician discovered drinking mercury was a cure for deadly diseases like syphilis.
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Adding to herbs and cures like Quinine, from the bark of the Quina tree, to help treat malaria and its symptoms became more popular
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The first stethoscope was invented by a young French physician
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Antitoxins are discovered and used to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
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Ronald Ross a British officer in the Indian Medical Service, shows that malaria parasites are transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Salicylic acid in willow tree bark is used to create aspirin.
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health.
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The first blood bank was started at Cook County Hospital in Chicago
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The antibiotic streptomycin is discover and later used in the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases
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James Watson and Francis Crick at Cambridge University describe the structure of an DNA molecule.
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The first oral polio vaccine was administered
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
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Hormone replacement therapy is used to help reduce women's risk of cancer after menopause.
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Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard and Professor Bernard Devauchelle carried out the world's first partial face transplant on a living human
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Scientist discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the U.S for a wearable artificial kidney
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Extinct woolly mammoth DNA is put with elephant DNA to successfully revive the DNA to the sequence of the mammoth's complete genome
