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Rauwolfia alkaloids used for bites, insanity
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colchicum used for Rx joint pain
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now used extirpation rather than cautery for breast cancer.
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had inguinal hernia surgery; lithotomy for bladder stones;
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Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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By the fourth century the concept of a hospital – a place where patients could be treated by doctors with access to specialized equipment – was emerging in parts of the Roman Empire.
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A Frenchwoman named Jacoba Felicie was tried for practicing medicine without a license. She was forbidden to practice medicine.
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the following year Anathomia corporis humani came out, which is considered the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical text.
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The concept of quarantine – to keep groups of people apart so that disease could not spread – began in the aftermath of the Black Death.
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the first written record of having both a mother and baby surviving a cesarean section.
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in the 18th century in Western Europe, tuberculosis reached its peak with a prevalence as high as 900 deaths per 100,000. Poorly ventilated and overcrowded housing, primitive sanitation, malnutrition and other risk factors led to the rise. The term White plague emerged around this time.
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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In the 1700s-1800s, dysentery was a disease causing many deaths. In fact, in some areas in Sweden 90 percent of all deaths were due to dysentery during the worst outbreaks.
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Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccines for any disease
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
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The era of cancer chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the first use of nitrogen mustards and folic acid antagonist drugs
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In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis each year in the United States.
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Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine
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Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
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the first completely new synthetic cells were created by stitching together chemicals to synthesis the full genome of a bacterium.
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European scientists say they've developed a technology that restores natural feeling and improves walking in patients who've had a lower leg amputation.
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The development of the bionic eye has begun to accelerate in the last few years.
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a University of Lincoln team revealed that it had developed a synthesised version of teixobactin with a much faster and easier synthesis process.
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Zaire ebolavirus is the most fatal Ebola virus. It was associated with the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa, the largest Ebola outbreak to date with more than 28,600 cases, as well as the current ongoing outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (
