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The Egyptian Imhotep describes the diagnosis and treatment of 200 diseases
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Alcaemon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries.
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He was the Greek father of medicine. He begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of medicine.
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Herophilus studies the nervous system.
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He was the Greek physician to gladiators and Roman emperors.
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Rhazes identifies smallpox. Rhazes was a Persian physician.
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Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and the Canon of Medicine. The Book of Healing is a scientific encyclopedia
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Trota of Salerno was a medical writer.
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Schools of medicine were found in Europe.
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Roger Bacon invents spectacles. Spectacles are like glasses.
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William Harvey publishes his discovery of how the blood circulates in the body.
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhook discovers blood cells.
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Giacona Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations.
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James Lind publishes his Treatise of the Scurby. It states that citrus fruits prevent scurby.
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Claudius Amyand performs the first successful appendectomy.
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Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox. They were the first vaccines for any disease.
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Sir Humphrey Savy discovers the anesthetics properties of nitrous oxide.
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as a cause of disease.
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Felix Hoffman develops aspirin.
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Insulin is used to treat diabetes.
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Penicillin is discovered, but it will be 20 years before it is used to combat infection and disease. It starts to get used in the 1940s. It is a group of antibiotics.
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Hela cells were discovered in 1951. They are a type of cell that was used for scientific research.
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Smallpox is eradicated.
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It is identified that HIV is the virus that caused AIDS.
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Alec Jeffereys devises a genetic fingerprinting method.
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Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.
