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Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited.
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The Renaissance stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuits. Physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine.
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Invented the microscope.
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The first to administer medications intravenously by means of an animal bladder attached to a sharpened quill.
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Created the first mercury thermometer.
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A Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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Invented bifocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person.
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He invented the vaccination for smallpox (whihch is related to cowpox)
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Invented the stethoscope.
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Established the patterns of heredity.
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Identified the cause of maternal infections and instituted hand washing. Medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands, causing the death of many newborn babies and mothers.
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She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. inspired Florence Nightingale ot pursue nursing.
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Discovered that pasteurizing milk is to kill bacteria.
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Studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. He determined that teh mind and body work together. His studies were teh basis of psychology and psychiatry.
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Founded the American Red Cross
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Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens.
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Discovered x-rays.
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Develops aspirin.
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Isolated radium in 1910
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Discovered penicillin.
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Developed the polio vaccine.
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Performed teh world's first heart transplant surgery.
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The first to identify smallpox, as distinguished from measles, and to suggest blood as the cause of infectious disease.
