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Medicine from medieval China was to creation of amalgams for dental procedures. The first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin.
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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754
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Rhazes discovered the difference between measles and smallpox's.
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People used to believe that humans could see things through invisible beams of light that were being emanated from the eyes. t Ibn al-Haytham, came up with a new explanation for vision through his research on optics and the anatomy of the eye.
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Doctors in the middle ages believed that during surgery some pus should remain in the wounds, thinking that this would aid in its healing. This idea remained widespread until the 13th-century surgeon Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. He even had bandages pre-soaked in wine as a form of disinfectant.
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The Black Plague began in 1347 and ended in 1350. 25 million people were killed.
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They treated syphilis with an unguentum of mercury.
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Paré was the inventor of surgical instruments.
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He discovered blood cells
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Anssen invented the microscope
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In 1815 René invented the stethoscope, a trumpet-shaped wooden tube, to examine a very fat woman whose heart he could not hear by pressing his ear to her chest.
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Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur establish the germ theory of disease
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First vaccination development for Rabies
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First contact lenses development.
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German researcher August von Wasserman introduces diagnostic test for syphilis.
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In 1906 Alois Alzheimer discovered dementia. It was later named Alzheimer because of all of the hard work Alois did to find out about this mental illness. Alois figured it out after studying a 51 year old woman for several years.
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccination for whooping cough
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First vaccination development for yellow fever
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