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Wrote 30 books on medicine, the "Pandects"
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Discovers difference between smallpox and measles.
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The first eye surgery was performed, using a needle and he was removing a cataract.
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Roger Bacon invents glasses
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Leonardo da Vinci dissected corpses
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Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani.
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Zacharius Jannssen, dutch lens grinder is to make the first microscope
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Use of scientific method begins
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Published "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals" Describing how blood is pumped through the body with the heart
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First successful surgery with anesthesia
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Stops outbreak of cholera
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René Laënnec invents the stethoscope
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine for tuberculosis, and first vaccine for tetanus.
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First HMO insurance
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Discovers Pencicillin
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Polio Vaccine
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
