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Began the study of disease
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earliest people to keep accurate records. Identified some specific disease, and used medicine to heal disease, and splinted fracture which we still use today
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Medicines only practice in monastaries and convents. The study of medicine stopped for a 1,000 years. Used herbal medicine. Plagues broke out.
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Michael Psellos or Psellus a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian. several books on medicine
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Ibn an-Nafis suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation
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Rebirth of science, medical schools were built. Study of cody dissections.
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First recorded regulations for mid-wifes
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Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. It helped copy medical information.
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Miguel Serveto describes the circulation of blood through the lungs.
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Founders of modern anamoty. Because of them we now know whats inside of us and it has enhanced our knoweledge
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Used acupuncture to relieve pain during congestion
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First dedicated military hospital is established in Savory Hospital London
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Created the first mercury thermometer
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James Lind , a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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The New Jersey Medical Society was the first organization in the colonies.
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One day Edward was studying a milk woman who was milking a cow when he noticed she had cow pox that you get from cows. Smallpox was very common in those days so he started to wonder why most milk woman had not caught it yet? So he decided to test it on someone . he found a little boy just 8 and a bit years old and he agreed to help him. He deliberately gave him cow pox and the boy was ill with cow pox but he got better quickly . next he gave him some pus out of a small pox boil to see if he caug
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Invented the stethoscope
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James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion
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A military fever broke out known as Scarlet Fever,
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Identified the cause of maternal infections and instituded handwashing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing death of many newborn babies and mothers.
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Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms cause disease and discovered that heating milk prevented growth of bacteria
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Started the first school of nursing during the Crimean War and made nursing an honorable profession.
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C.E. Brown-Sequard proposed the then-revolutionary idea that one cerebral hemisphere can influence both sides of the body.
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First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery to prevent infections in the incision
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the first identification of AIDS
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Began public health and sanitation system
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Founded The Red Cross
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Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
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She was the first woman to qualify and a doctor in the U.S.
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Discovered X-rays.
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First bathed
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He identified the major blood types A, B, O, and AB
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Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris
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An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material
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Is surgery on minute body structures or cells performed with the aid of microscope and other specialized instruments, such as a micromanipulator
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Discovered penicillin
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Created first mechanical heart
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In Britain, the biggest change was the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) that provided free medical care for all regardless of wealth. Prior to this those who could not afford something like a penicillin jab had to go without or make the necessary sacrifices to get the necessary money. The NHS provided this for free. Vaccine for polio
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Developed the polio vaccine
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Dicovered the first birth control pill
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Created the oral polio vaccine, Which was more effective then Salk's vaccine
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Performed the worlds first heart transplant surgery.
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Refers to the mapping of genes to specific locations on chromosomes
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The big advantage of this new technique is that there is no need to make large incisions.
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The process of creating an identical copy of an original.
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She was the first test tube baby
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Diagonstic and screening medical prodcedures specifically developed to promote health and wellness
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The insertion of genes into an individuals calls and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary disease in particular.
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Galen studies the connection between paralysis and severance of the spinal cord. considered by many to be the most important contributor to medicine following Hippocrates
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Figured out the difference between small pox and measals
