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One of the most important contributions to medicine from medieval China was the creation of amalgams for dental procedures which were tooth fillings made up of silver and tin.
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This man's leg wound is being treated, while herbs for a soothing ointment or healing drink are being prepared
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The first pharmacy was established by one medieval Arabic physician who said these were places for “the art of knowing the materia medica simples" in their various species, types and shapes. From these, the pharmacist prepares compounded medications as prescribed.
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Discovered the difference between smallpox and measles.
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Doctors performing a dissection of a cadaver to learn more about the human anatomy.
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During the Renaissance period, common diseases included leprosy, smallpox and the dreaded Black Death.
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Leonardo recognized that a scientific knowledge of human anatomy could only be gained by dissecting the human body.
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The renaissance was a time of re-birth in the knowledge of a multitude of subject. Many people had delved into the idea of how the human body works and broke down human anatomy even further than during the middle ages.
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the first doctor to have suggested that human diseases may be caused by pathogens.
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The “De Humaini Corporis Fabrica” was a book written by Andreas Vesalius and became one of the most important books ever written on the human anatomy at the time.
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Edward Jenner discovered that there was two forms of smallpox and cowpox and that one could help the human build up an immunity against it.
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Many pharmaceuticals were advanced during the time of the industrial revolution because of the advancements that were being made for other inventions that made it easier to make and store medicine.
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Rene Theophile was too embarrassed to put his ear upon a female patient's breast while examining her, he soon came up with the idea for a stethoscope after seeing young children putting their ear up to a hollow log and knocking through it.
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Louis Pasteur hypothesized the germ theory which proved the scientific evidence that would change the century and stop a disease that at one time killed 30,000 people.
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The anesthesia Nitrous Oxide was first demonstrated at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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It was discovered that inhaling ether, or chloroform gases, lessened the pain of surgery.
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"Presenile dementia," later known as Alzheimer's disease, was discovered by Alois Alzheimer's, a German psychiatrist.
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Developed a means to suture (stitch) ruptured spleens.
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There was an influenza outbreak that affected many men women and children.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announces a ban on lead paint on toys and furniture, nearly 60 years after studies show that lead is dangerous to children and decades of opposition from the lead industry.
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Scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public. For the first time the world could read the complete set of human genetic information.
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One of the best known Pediatricians in the world. He graduated from University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine in 1972 and treated a child with growth and development problems
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Scientists have created an artificial womb capable of allowing very premature fetuses to develop normally for approximately one month.
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There was the 10 percent drop in deaths due to HIV in the US between 2006 and 2007.
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Researchers from Cornell University printed an outer ear that worked like and resembled the real thing.
