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Pharmacists combined medications and gave them to patients as proscribed by the proscribing physician.
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Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and smallpox
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Places where patients could come and be treated for illnesses and other problems that required a doctor. First meant to be lodgings and car for the poor and or travelers.
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The idea of cleaning the would an not leaving pus in the wound after surgery was thought of by surgeon Theodoric Borgognoni. He came up with an antiseptic and even a an anesthetic. He pre-soaked bandages in wine as a disinfectant.
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When the Black Death surfaced authorities made ships wait 30 days before docking so that they could make sure that no one was infected the same was done for land travelers but their days were extended to 40.
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Leonardo Da Vinci dissected human bodies and drew them for several years.
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Andreas Vesalius dissected human bodies for a living.
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The Dutchman Zacharius Jannssen created the first microscope.
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Hans Lippershey created the first ever telescope.
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English architect Sir Christopher Wren is the first to administer medications intravenously by means of an animal bladder attached to a sharpened quill. Wren also experiments with canine blood transfusions
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The Scottish naval surgeon discovered that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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James Blundell a British obstetrician successfully performed the first human blood transfusion.
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the very first woman to ever receive a medical degree.
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Until this vaccine was created every case of rabies ended in death. Two French scientist Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux invented the first vaccine and was first successful after a 9 year old boy was bit by a rabid dog
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen German physicist made the discovering of x-rays
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Insulin was first used to treat diabetes.
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Scottish bacteriologist discovers penicillin.
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
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The success of a first-time experimental surgery will determine future availability for U.S. cancer patients and veterans with injuries to the pelvic region.
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California.
