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Persian physician properly identifies smallpox for the first time
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Avicenna wrote another book called The Canon of Medicine
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Avicenna a Persian Muslim physician wrote Book of Healing
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Medical Care becomes a more regulated practice, more rules and standards helped paved the way for proper medical care
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Roger Bacon an english philosopher invents spectacles
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Leonardo da Vinci starts dissecting corpes to gain a better understanding of the human body
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Vesalius publishes his findings on human anatomy in a series of books called De Fabrica Corporis Humani
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria a little over a decade after discovering blood cells
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Giacomo Pylarini makes the first successful attempts to cure smallpox
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Claudius Aymand preforms the first appendectomy (removal of the appendix)
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Rene Laennec invents the first stethoscope, another break through for medical instruments
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James Blundell succsessfully preformed the first human blood transfusion
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The invention of the syringe is one of the most important inventions in medical history.
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Karl Landsteiner was the first to classify blood into A, B, or O
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TB's first successful vaccine was created
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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Influenza's, a very common illness, had its first vaccine created
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Pneumonia finally had a vaccine to drop its lethality rate
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The circadian clock is a tiny cluster of nerves behind the eye that controls how the brain regulates the daily rhythms of the body
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Andrzej Krolewski found two key markers that, when elevated in the bloodstream, accurately predict the risk of kidney failure in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
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Tumors could now be suppressed thanks to a break through in research can control the speed in which tumors grow
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GDF-11 has the ability to reverse the effects of cardiac hypertrophy and can reduce the risk of heartfailure
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Research for the first bio artificial forelimb able to be transplanted on humans has begun
