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Rene Laennec invents the first stethiscope in 1816.
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James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion in the year of 1818.
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In 1842 Crawford Long performs the first surgical operation using anaesthesia.
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In 1846 The first painless surgery with general anasethetic was successful.
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Famous doctor Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent puerperal fever
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree
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Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, based partly on Pasteur's work
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease in 1870
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Louis Pasteur develops an anthrax vaccine in 1881
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Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.