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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754.
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discovered the difference between small pox and Measles.
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christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
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In the year 1315 the Italian physician Mondino de Luzzi conducted a public dissection for his students and his spectators. The following year he would write Anathomia Corporis Humani, which is considered the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical text.
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Frenchwoman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied.
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The use of the scientific method begins.
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Reflective microscope.
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
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The Small Pox vaccine, The first successful vaccine to be developed was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796.
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William Morton invents the anesthetic.
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera.
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Discovered the first rabies vaccine
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Before x ray machines were invented, broken bones, tumors and the location of bullets were all diagnosed by physical examination and a doctor's best guess. Patients paid the price of these approaches. Then on November 8th of 1895, a German physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen made a remarkable discovery.
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Bubonic Plague hits San Fransisco
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Earle Dickson was employed as a cotton buyer for the Johnson & Johnson when he invented the band-aid in 1921. His wife Josephine Dickson was always cutting her fingers in the kitchen while preparing food. At that time a bandage consisted of separate gauze and adhesive tape that you would cut to size and apply yourself.
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First HMO insurance.
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Salk discovers Polio vaccine.
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WHO declares smallpox eradicated.
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Steve Thomas used sterile maggots for infectious wound treatment.
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The completion of the Human Genome Project identified a complete set of DNA, which allows for new and completely individualized medications and treatments.
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Gardasil a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer approved by the FDA
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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The first FDA approved implanted AbioCor artificial heart placed in a patient on June 24. Patient died on August 23.
