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The Egyptian Imhotep describes the diagnosis and treatment of 200 diseases
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Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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Birth of Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin
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Herophilus studies the nervous system
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the blood circulates in the body
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
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a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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introduces vaccination against smallpox
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Rene L invents the stethoscope
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British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
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Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
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Felix Hoffman develops aspirin
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Karl Landsteiner discovers the existence of different human blood types
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Willem Einthoven discovers electrocardiography (ECG/EKG
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Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets
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Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness
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Insulin first used to treat diabete
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First vaccine for Diphtheria
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Telesurgery - Jacques Marescaux
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First HPV vaccine approved
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Second rotavirus vaccine approved (first was withdrawn)
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Visual prosthetic (bionic eye) Argus II
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Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant
