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In the year 500 the difference between veins and arteries was discovered and led to more research of the Cardiovascular system.
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In 659 the first substance for tooth fillings was invented and was made out of silver and tin.
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In the year 754 the first pharmacy was created in Baghdad.
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The earliest recorded hospital was built in the monastery of St Gall. It held up to six people and had it's own garden to grow herbal medicines.
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Discovered the difference between Measles and Small Pox.
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In 1315 Mondino De Luzzi performed a public dissection then later wrote the first anatomical text on dissection.
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The earliest known depiction of a pair of glasses was in 1352.
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In the year 1377 the concept of quarantine was invented in a a city in Croatia.
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Around the year 1500 the first Cesarean Section was performed and recorded with both the mother and child still alive.
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In 1543 Versalius also known as the father of anatomy wrote one of the most famous books on anatomy and dissection.
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Edward Jenner invented the first successful smallpox vaccine.
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Around the 1800's the practice of bloodletting was invented.
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John Warren performed the first successful surgery with anesthesia
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In the early 1890's Aspirin was invented by a German Chemist named Felix Hoffman
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X-Rays were invented by a German physics professor named Wilhelm Roentgan
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In 1922 Insulin was first used to treat diabetics.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the drug penicillin.
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In 2005 the first partial face transplant was performed in France.
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The first HPV vaccine called Gardasil was approved by the FDA
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The first functional artificial kidney was created from stem cells
