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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad, they were very popular and many drug stores were opened up around the Arabic world.
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Medieval Universities begin to teach physicians and gradually become the main centers in which medical knowledge is shared.
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Jacoba Felicie was a French healer who had charges pressed against her by the University of Paris for practicing medicine without a license, despite her not being able to get a license for being a girl.
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Nobody is completely sure who invented the eyeglasses but by the end of the 13th-century, eyeglasses were very well known in Italy.
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Up until the 13th-century medical writers believed some pus should be left in the wounds to aide in the healing, until Theodoric Borgognoni came up with an antiseptic method, where wounds were cleaned and then sutured to promote healing.
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Created over 200 pages of illustrations with notes about the human anatomy
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Helped lay foundations of for modern forensic pathology and surgery.
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Francis Bacon, and others, started to use the Scientific method.
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Was a 17th-century "natural philosopher" who looked through a silver cork in a microscope lens and discovered cells.
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Smallpox, leprosy and the Black Death was very common. The island of Hispaniola fell from a population of 60,000 to fewer of 600 (just one example).
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Jenner tested his vaccination on an eight year old boy, the boy still had chickenpox but it went away after a couple days and he got an immunity to it.
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The first stethoscope was invented in 1816 by a French physician names Rene Theophile Hyancinthe Laennec.
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Was a German physician and microbiologist, he discovered the causative agent of Bacillus anthracis.
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The first successful surgical performed with anesthetics.
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Was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist that discovered the principles of vaccination.
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Introduced the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, O groups
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Insulin was first used to treat diabetes
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The first vaccine for diphtheria was developed
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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He synthesized the medicines physostigmine for glaucoma and cortisone for rheumatoid arthritis
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For the first time the world would read the complete set of human genetic information and discover what roughly all or genes do.
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These range from diagnostic tools that can detect malignant tumors that are invisible to the naked eye, to cognitive computer systems, and etc.
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Became illegal to smoke inside of restaurants and some workplaces.
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First vaccine to target a cause for cancer
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Set a goal to reduce the number of coronary health disease and stroke and risk
