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Hippocrates wrote the code of ethics for physicians called the Hippocratic Oath.
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The priniting press made knowledge easier and faster to share.
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The Rennaisance stimulated medical practice. Physicians and Scholars began to scientifically study medicine.
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Christopher Columbus returns from his voyage from the new world and bring backs diseases to Spain, known as the Columbian Exchange.
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William Harvey explains the circulatory system.
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Study of the body through dissection was finally accepted. This was how doctors learned about anatomy.
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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invents the microscope.
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Created the first mercury thermometer.
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James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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A political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century, which 13 colonies joined together to break away from the British Empire.
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Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox.
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
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James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion.
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The Found of Modern Nursing (Florence Nightingale) is born.
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The father of microbiology (Robert Koch) was born. He discovered disease-causing organisms, such as anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera.
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First painless surgery using anaesthesia.
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Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S.
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The North was fighting against the South over slavery rights and the South wanted to be their own nation.
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Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria.
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Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
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William Roentgen discovers X-rays
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Aspirin is invented in Germany by Felix Hoffmann.
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Karl Landsteiner discover the difference in blood types.
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Isolated radium.
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World War One was between the Allies and the Central Powers over militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism.
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First vaccine for tetanus.
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
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Nuclear weapons are first introduced to the United States.
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A war between the Allies and the Axis powers over nationalistic tensions, unresolved issues, and resentments resulting from the World War I and the interwar period in Europe, plus the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s
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The difibulator is invented.
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Developed the polio vaccination.
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Christian Barnard performs the world's first successful heart transplant.
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Louise Brown was the first test-tube baby (Great Britain).
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Stem cell therapy.
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Represents the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
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It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the 20 April 2010 explosion of Deepwater Horizon. The explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others.
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Mathematician or Philosopher wrote "Epitome of Medicine".
