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The Christian Church teaches that illness is caused by God.
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was one of the most respected and well known physicians of ancient physicians. He wrote many books about disease and medication. A great fraction of the books he wrote became very popular and an important piece of history. Born in 525 and passed in 605.
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Leo was a writer, who wrote pieces that were book-length. He wrote things like poems, epigrams, brought together a wide range of astronomical, medical, and philosophical texts and even put together his own medical encyclopedia. Born in 790 and passed in 869.
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Persian physician, Rhazes, identifies the disease smallpox.
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A lot more medical schools and hospitals are built and the medical profession starts to get big and more common.
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The Black Death was a massive disease wiped out a large number of people in England. it was treated by lancing the buboes and applying a warm water poultice of butter, onion and garlic. Other healing and treating properties they used included arsenic, lily root and even tried toad.
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Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses. This is also a like practice of being a mortician.
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Girolamo Fracastoro proposes that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable seedlike entities.
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The microscope was invented, which played a major roll in medical advancement.
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William Harvey publishes an anatomical study of the motion of the heart and of the blood in animals. This begins to from the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart.
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Gray was an anatomist and surgeon and the creator of Gray's Anatomy, which is an English textbook about human anatomy.
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The first medical procedure using anesthesia was performed by Crawford Long.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman that Geneva Medical College in New York granted a medical degree to.
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The first medical college ever to grant medical degrees to women. The Female Medical College of Pennsylvanian.
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Harvey was an American neurosurgeon. He is known as the father of modern-day brain surgery.
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The first contact lenses were developed
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René was cardiac surgeon who created the coronary bypass grafting procedure
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The first vaccine developed for yellow fever.
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Dr. Christian Bernard performs the first human heart transplant
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was identified.
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As a practising physician, she specialises in intensive insulin therapy, insulin pumps, and diabetes in pregnancy
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The first vaccine was created to target a cause of cancer.
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Doctors began to induce potential stem cells and also cloned human stem cells.
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Registered to be a doctor in the UK in 2006. He was one of the 2 terrorists behind the 2007 London car bombs plot and the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack.
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Japanese researchers successfully created a functioning liver from stem cells.
