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The difference between veins and arteries in discovered.
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He discovered the difference between measles and small pox.
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Medical care becomes regulated.
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Being a surgeon becomes a profession.
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Doing dissections and autopsies become more popular.
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Islamic hospitals; health care for the sick.
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Christian monasteries founded to treat the ill.
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French woman Jacoba Felicie tries to practice medicine but is denied.
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Robert Hooke- invented reflective microscope.
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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek describes bacteria.
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
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Discovery of blood cells, bacteria, protozoa, and stethoscope.
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Edward Jenner discovered 1st vaccination of small pox.
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Cholera returns and kills 30,000 people.
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John Snow stops outbreak of cholera.
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Salk discovers polio vaccine.
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WHO declares small pox is eradicated.
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Gardasil, a vaccine that prevents cirvical cancer is approved by FDA.
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Human skin cells are used to create embryonic stem cells (discovered).
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First artificial heart implant in a patient, but the patient died a month later.
