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created the Sushruta Samhita and is probably the first surgeon to perform plastic surgery
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in china, there was a text from the year 659 that details the first use of a substance tooth filling, which was made up of silver and tin. The concept wasnt adapted into Europe until the 16 century
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The first pharmacies were created in Baghdad in the year 754
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discovered the difference between missiles and smallpox
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discoverd carbon monoxide and general anaesthesia
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one of the most devastating pandemics of the middle ages resulting in the estimated death of 75 to 200 million people
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credited as the founder of toxicology
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a Swiss doctor named Jacob Nufer preformed the operation on his wife after she had been in labor for several days. The operation was a success as both mother and baby lived.
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He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation
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a set of books on human anatomy written and published by Andreas Vesalius in 1543
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the last major plague to occur in England. According to the Bills of Mortality there were in total 68,596 deaths.
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antonie van leeuwenhoek discovers a single celled organism called protozoa
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The vast majority of people infected with yellow fever died making this one of the most devastating epidemics in the united state
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in 1799 Humphrey Davy discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous dioxide also known as laughing gas
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also known as the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic was a Cholera pandemic that reached from Asia to Europe, killing more than 500,000 people in a span of about 20 years
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Robert Koch is German physician who discovered
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Elizabeth Blackwell was a British born physician who is know for being the first woman to receive a medical degree in the united states.
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Discovered penicillin in 1928
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in 1984 Dr. Luc Montagnie discovers the immunodeficiency virus HIV. He later wins a noble peace prize in 2008 for this discovery
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the first partial face transplant was done in Amiens, France in 2005
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The swine flu pandemic was started by a novice strain of influenza in 2009 that spread across the United States. This devastating pandemic may have killed up to 203,000 people world wide.
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The most widespread epidemic of Ebola virus disease in history began in 2013 and continued for over two years. 11,315 people in total died in this devastating outbreak
