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Wrote 30 books on medicine. First author to mention smallpox and measles.
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A Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and smallpox.
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Oldest hospital in Britain still providing all medical services. Accepted mental patients along with regular ones.
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Discovered Pulmonary and Coronary circulation.
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Healthcare for the sick. Some of the world's first hospitals.
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Pioneered use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. Rejected occultism.
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Explained the circulatory system in, "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals".
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Invented the reflective microscope.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observes and describes bacteria.
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Discovered that consumption of citrus fruits prevents scurvy.
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Discovered the worlds first vaccine.
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch established the Germ Theory of Disease.
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William Conrad Rontgen discovers the medical use of x-rays.
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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Jonas Salk develops his first polio vaccine.
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The World Health Organization announces that smallpox has been eradicated.
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First mammal successfully cloned.
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The HGP was a 13 year project that mapped the entire human genome.
