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Smallpox was a horrible disease that impacted the world in a horrible way. When it was discovered, it let people know the dangers of it and prepare for it.
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A man by the name of Avicenna, wrote ´The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine´. This book really started to put medicine on the important side of peoples problems.
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A man used a needle to remove a cataract.
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The first ever documented hospital in England. This gave people a more sterile place to heal and seek treatment.
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Roger Bacon starts to create the first convex lens spectacles.
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Dr. Girolamo Fracastoro scientifically discovered that diseases can be air born. This helps people in the medical field figure out how to better stop the spread of diseases.
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Dr. Miguel Serveto published an article describing how blood circulates in the respiratory system.
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Zacharius Jannssen invented the microscope. This now allows scientists to look closer into organisms.
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Lemon juice is discovered to treat scurvy. This made scientists and doctors realize that natural remedies can be truly helpful in the medical field.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered blood cells. This helps doctors better understand the human body.
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Claudius Aymand performed the first successful appendectomy. This changes the medical field and helps save millions of people over time from ruptured appendixes.
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Dr. Edward Jenner creates a vaccine for smallpox.
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope. This gave doctors the capability to listen more closely to patients and treat them more accurately.
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Louis Pasteur invented the vaccine for rabies.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Penicillin is known as the medicine that can help treat almost everything. So, he created an antibiotic that can replace most other antibiotics.
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Dr. Max Theiler created the yellow fever vaccine. This saves millions of people who live all around the country but more in the mountain areas.
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Dr. Jonas Salk invents the first polio vaccine. He is responsible for ending the leading cause of death at the time in America.
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Dr. Christian Bernard performed the first human heart transplant. This surgical technique helps save many lives and it was just a huge advancement in the medical field.
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Dr. Christian Bernard performs the first human heart transplant.
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The first human genome map is created. This helps people know what diseases they're likely to get and what age they'll probably get it. A huge huge huge medical advancement is what this is.
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The first FDA approved HPV vaccine is created. This helps thousands of people from getting certain types of cancer, warts, and a lot more nasty diseases.
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In Japan, doctors found a way to grow a liver from stem cells. A grown from scratch liver.
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In 2013, the first ever 3-D printed skull was made. It was also used for a skull transplant.
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In 2019, the very first human grown heart was made and used. A life was saved because of a made-from-scratch heart. This gives a clearer view on how to further advance medical discoveries.
