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birth of Hippocrates, the greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin.
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Diocles wrote the first known anatomy book.
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Persian physician Rhazes identifies small pox
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Leonardo Da Vinci begins dissecting corpses
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek starts to observe bacteria
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He gives the first small pox inoculations. (vaccination)
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccination for any disease.
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Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anesthetic 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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Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic
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the first women to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
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Charles and Alexander develop the syringe
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The first vaccines were developed for cholera, rabies, and anthrax
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Wilhelm Conrad discovers X-rays
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The first vaccine for bubonic plague was developed
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Felix Hoffman develops Aspirin
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Dr. Paul Dudley white pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph (ECG)
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Earle Dickson invented the baind-aid
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insulin first used to treat diabetes
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The first vaccines for diptheria, whopping cough, tuberculosis, and tetanus were developed in this time period
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicilin
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the first vaccine for yellow fever was developed
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John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker
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hiv, the virus that causes AIDS is identified.
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alec jeffreys devises a genetic fingerprinting method
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
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the first vaccine to target a cause of cancer