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The Study of Medicine was stopped for 1,000 years and medicine was only practiced in monasteries. The use of herbal medicine was seen and there were many epidemics like the plague.
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The rebirth of Science happend and Medical Schools were built. Also, the study of the body by dissection was allowed.
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Leonardo Davinci disected human bodies and made the first anatomical drawings tht helped people understand the systems of the human body.
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William Harvey describes the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit created teh first mercury thermometer.
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Edward Jenner created the Vaccine for Smallpox accidently while trying to come up with a vaccine to cure cowpox.
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James Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion on humans.
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope.
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Gregory Medel established principles of heredity and dominant/recessive patterns in peas.
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Ignaz Semmelweis encouraged physicians to wash hands after performing autopsies and before delivering babies.
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Sigmund Freud studied the effects of teh unconscious mind on teh body. His studies are the basis of psychology and psychiatry. He stated that the mind adn body work together.
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Florence Nightangle is known as the mother of nursing. She created and opened the Nightingale School and home for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
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Joseph Lister was the first docotr to use an antiseptic and disinfectants during surgery to prevent infections.
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Clara Barton established the American Red Cross.
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He developed the rabies vaccine and proved that microorganisms caused disease, He also discovered that heating milk prevents bacteria growth.
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Wihelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and this allowed doctors to see internal injuries in the human body.
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Marie Curie isolated radium and she eventually died from radiation.
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Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, the first anitbiotic. This is consider to be the greatest discovery of the 20th century.
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Albert Sabin develops the oral polio vaccine that was more effective than Jonas Salk polio vaccine.
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He developed the polio Vaccine using dead polio virus.
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James Hardy pefroed the first lung transplant on a human.
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Christian Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant surgery that was a success.
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The first human test tube baby was born. Her name is Louise Brown.
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Genetic engineering lead to the development of vaccines against hepatitis, herpes, and the chicken pox.
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Dolly the sheep was cloned.
