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Dr. Edward Jenner create the first small pox vaccine.
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Dr. Edward Jenner create the first small pox vaccine
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Mary Edwards Walker was the first female surgeon in the united states. In 1855, she graduated and began her profession. Dr. Blackwell graduated before her but isn't listed as the first.
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In 1873, the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing, of New York City, was founded by Florence Nightingale.
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Mary Edwards Walker was the first female surgeon in the united states. In 1855, she graduated and began her profession. Dr. Blackwell graduated before her but isn't listed as the first.
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In 1895 William roentgen discovered x-rays and experimented on his own wife. The x-ray has changed the entire medical field since.
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Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin in laboratory in London in a harvest of bateria. Penicillin opened the door to new methods of fighting bacterial infections.
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Jonas Salk developed the first vaccine against flu viruses in 1938. The vaccine was successful and been used/modified since then.
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Margaret Sanger created the first oral conception. Enovid, was approved by the US FDA as a safe contraception in 1960.
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Dr. James Hardy performed the first human lung transplant in 1963 in Jackson Mississippi on a sick patient. Prior to the surgery Dr. Hardy has practiced on 400 dogs.
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On December 3, 1697 Dr. Christiaan Banard conducted the world's first heart to heart transplant
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Raymond Vahan Damadian invented the first MRI scanning machine in 1977. He used the scanning machine to diagnose cancer in 1977.