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Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius publishes a seven-volume work which for the first time lays bare human anatomy
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German physician Samuel Hahnemann coins the term 'homeopathy' and describes this new approach to medicine
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A dentist in Boston, William Morton, uses ether as an anaesthetic while surgeon John Collins Warren removes a tumour in a patient's neck
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In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination
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YASMINE CURES CANCER!!!