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The Code of Hammurabi set out rules and fees for medicinal malpractice
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Bian Que was the first physician to use accupuncture.
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Hippocrates created the Hippocratic oath. It includes things such as vowing to keep patient information private and, always working to help the patient.
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Rufus of Epheseus was a physician in the first century.
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Galen was the creator of the theory of the four bodily humors. The theory went that black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood had to be equal for health.
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Aaron of Alexandria wrote over 30 books and acknowledged the diseases of smallpox and measles.
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Rhazes made the first clear distinction between smallpox and measles.
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Albulcasis created surgical instruments.
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Avicienna wrote "The Canon of Medicine", a book that would be used until the 18th century.
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Roger Bacon wrote about convex spectacles for treating long-sightedness.
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William Clowes was a military surgeon.
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Garcia de Orta was associated with tropical medicine in India.
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John Woodall was first to use lemon juice to treat scurvy.
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William Harvey explained the circulatory system.
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James Lind that citrus fruits cure scurvy.
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Humphry Davy discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide.
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Joseph Lister standardized proper hand-washing and sanitation procedures. He popularized antiseptics.
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The first painless surgery took place using general anesthetics.
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch created germ theory.
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In 1881, Louis Pasteur developed the vaccine to Anthrax. The following year, he created the vaccine to rabies.
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Karl Landstiener discovers the difference between blood types.
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Alois Alzheimer recognizes the first case of what is now known as
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Fredrick Hopkins discovers vitamins and their link to scurvy and rickets.
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy. He later received a Nobel prize for his work on the lobotomy. This was later deemed one of the worst Nobel prizes ever awarded because of how inhumane the procedure was.
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Joseph Murray preforms the first ever kidney transplant.
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Rune Elmqvist developed the pacemaker.
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The entire human genome had been mapped out.
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the first face transplant.
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the first visual prosthetic bionic eye Argus II
