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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in 754.
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Persian doctor who discovered difference between measles and small pox
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He forbade people from practicing medicine without a license, which shows us that doctors were under regulation.
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The first record of an autopsy was in 1286
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Dissection for medical purposes became popular in 1299
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it was used to be believed that pus helped heal wounds until a man named Theodoric Borgognoni came up with the idea of cleaning wounds and stitching them up. He also figured out how to make people fall asleep for surgeries.
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also known as black death, it killed about 75 to 200 million in Europe. it was believed to be spread by the fleas that live on black rats.
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The first depiction of glasses was in 1352. it was a fresco of a cardinal wearing glasses and writing at a desk.
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the book "Red Book of Hergest" was written around this time. it was an important book about herbs.
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He came up with the theory that the heart is a pump that circulates blood around the body through blood vessels.
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the first ever small pox vaccination ever given
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Rene Laenec invented the stethoscope
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the first successful blood transfusion was preformed by James Blundell
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the first anesthetic was given to a man at a public demonstration
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a German chemist who decided that willow was no longer strong enough to relieve pain so he created an alternative
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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first vaccine for yellow fever
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first human heart transplant is preformed by Christiaan Barnard
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first vaccine for the chicken pox
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Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell
