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Hippoctrates was the founder of medicine. He was the greatest physician of his time because he discovered medicine. Also he based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He had a belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation.
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One of the most important contributions to medicine from medieval China was to creation of amalgams for dental procedures. In the year 659, the first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin.
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In the Arabic world hospitals emerged in the 8th century as more secular institutions, and in larger cities they could be staffed by dozens of physicians, had several wards for different illnesses.
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It was established in Baghdad. Pharmacies proved to be very popular and more drug stores soon opened up around the Arabic world. By the 12th century they could be found in Europe.
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Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles
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First time that Chemicals and Minerals were demonstrated that they could be safely used in the human body. Also it was found that diseases and health depended on how a person’s body was in harmony with nature rather than.
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Humans Diseases may have been caused by pathogens. It would spread by human direct and indirect contact.
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Ambroise Pare´ was a french surgeon and a anatomist and an inventor of surgical instruments.
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During the Renaissance period, common diseases included leprosy, smallpox and the dreaded Black Death. The Black Death troubled people from time to time. It was a very dangerous disease.
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Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo discovered the scabies mite as the known cause the itch making scabies one of the first diseases with a known cause.
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The first vaccines were tested and for diseases like chlorea and small pox. This was one of the greatest evolution's that would change the world forever.
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The first Stethoscope was invented by a guy named Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec. It grew very popular and helped out a lot of people around the world.
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Wilhelm Conrad Roetgen was the first person to discover the X-ray. He was doing an experiment with light and rays so he made the x-ray.
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In 1897 the first time malaria was demonstrated that it comes from mosquito´s and it was getting a lot of people sick.
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In a 1899 aspirin came around and it was one of the most used medicines in the world.
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In 1918 the Spanish flu had a outbreak it spreaded all over the world infecting 500 million people. 50 million people died in two years.
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For the first time insulin was used to treat diabetes.
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Scottish Bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin.
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In 1967 a guy named Christiaan Barnard preformed a heart transplant.
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In 1983 for the first time ever HIV that causes AIDS was identified.
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In 2007 one of the first Bionic Prosthetics hands was launched. So People who have lost hand or are born without them now have the opportunity to replace that missing piece of their body with a fully functional device.
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Thanks to advancements in the area of cardiovascular health, deaths due to heart disease have dropped significantly over the past 10 years.
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In 2013, scientists completed the first ever draft that sequenced the human genome. Information from DNA is used to develop new ways to treat, cure, or even prevent thousands of diseases affecting humankind.
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Stribild, a medication approved for HIV patients in 2013, combined four HIV antiretroviral medications into one dose, which was even more effective in controlling the symptoms for these patients.
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In 2014 a guy named John Adler invented cyberknife. The cyberknife has opened up a whole new wave of treating patients. Surgeries that are not possible through conventional methods might be possible with the cyberknife because of the minimally invasive techniques it employs.
