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Arabic world hospitals emerged as a more secure institution.
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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad.
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Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and small pox.
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Surgeon Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method.
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Frederick the second promoted a set of laws about medical education standards & license and probably established professionalization of physicians.
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Florence had 35 hospitals and donations from the public helped in the making of many other hospitals.
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Leonardo Da Vince dissected human bodies and made detailed drawings of everything, to help physicians understand where the organs were in the body & start upon their function.
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The first physicians were often into physics and astronomy. This helped them with medicines.
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Paracelsus, discovered that drinking mercury was a cure for the diseases, syphilis.
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Smallpox, which severely damaged North & South America in the mid. 17th century.
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Between 1830 and 1836 there were 4 major outbreaks of the disease Typhoid.
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The inhalation of nitrous oxide or chloroform began to be used for pain relief during dental and surgical procedures.
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Florence Nightingale led to a decrease in mortality rates and founder of modern nursing.
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Joseph Lister argued that infection wasn't caused by miamas, but by microbes (germs) in the air.
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Louis Pasteur's first major discoveries was the fact that germs can cause disease.
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New biological treatment, such as antibiotics were introduced.
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The Austrian immunologist Karl Landsteiner documented the blood groups A, B, and O.
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Karl Landsteiner identified agglutinates in blood and developed the modern system of classifying blood groups.
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Medics and hospital units advanced techniques helped healed massive injuries and controlling diseases.
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First Polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk.
