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Paré publishes in 1545 the first account of his military experiences under the title La Methode de traicter les playes faictes par Hacquebutes, et aultres bastons a feu (The Method of treating wounds caused by Arquebuses and other firearms).
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Cowpox is a relatively rare disease, unrecognized at the time by the medical profession, and it is not until 1796 that Jenner has an opportunity to test this theory of immunity.
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René Laënnec, reluctant to press his ear to the chest of a young female patient, finds a solution in the stethoscope
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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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William Baikie, on an expedition up the Niger, protects his men from malaria by administering quinine
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in the year 2030 the cure to cancer will be found by a scientist.
