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All medical advancements were haulted for the next 1000 years
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Studied the idea of disease and relized there was more than just because the gods cursed you that people got sick.
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In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg made his first printing press.
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Leonardo da Vinci used dissections to truely study the body and he drew in depth pictures of the muscles and organs.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope and was the first person to see bacteria.
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Gabriel Farenheit invented the first mercury thermometer
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BenFranklin discovered the common cold is spread from person to person it is not caught from getting cold outside.
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Ben Franklin created biofocals
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Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine for smallpox after his dairymaid had cowpox. Smallpox no longer exists in the World because of the vaccine.
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Dorthea Dix was one of the most influential reformes in the treatment of women and the mentally handicapped.
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoschope.
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Ignas Semmelweiss identified the case of maternal infectionsand instituted hand washing. Many newborns died because of infection from dirty hands.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the US
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Gregor Mandel establised the patterns of heredity.
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Florence Nightingale opened the first nursing school during the Crimean WAr and made nursing an honorable profession.
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Louis Pasteur started the pasteurization of milk to kill bacteria
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Joesph Lister realized that antiseptic should be used during surgery and clen tools so that infections would be prevented
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Clara Barton started the American REd Cross which helped the war effort in setting up wartime hospitals.
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Robert Koch developed culture plate method to identify pathogens.
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The rabies vaccine saved a little boy after a dog bite. Louis Pasteur had invented the vaccine.
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William Roentgen took the first x-ray of his wifes hand and noticed which materials you could see thorugh and which ones you could not.
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Marie Curie was first sucessful in isolateing radium in 1910 and later recieved a Nobel Prize for it.
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicilllin, the first antibiotic. This was considered one of the most important discoveries in the twentieth century.
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After finding that humans have something in their mucus that kills bacteria Sir Alexander Fleming started work on finding the "Wonder Drug" Penicillin has become a life saving drug.
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The stock Market crash lead to a ten year long depresion.
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Jonas Salk discovered an altered Polio Virus Vaccine.
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Albert Sabin created the oral polio vaccine, which was more effective than Salk's vaccin
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Chistian Barnard was the first doctor to perform a heart transplant
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Louis Brown was the first "test tube" baby born.
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Aids was and epidemic in America 10 years or so ago but is no longer a large scale issue due to education
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The world health assembly announced that small pox had been eradicated form the world.
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The insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, hereditary desease in particular.
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Tissue Cloning was created. It's the process of creating an identical copy of an original.
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Rhazes, an arab physician used animal gut as suture material.
