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- The study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years
- Medicine practiced only in monasteries and convents
- Herbal medicine was used
- Many plagues and epidemics (bubonic plague, smallpox, diphthenria, syphillis, tuberculosis)
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Invents spectacles
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First dissection of human corpse
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- Rebirth of science
- Medical schools were built
- Printing press made books possible and knowledge was shared
- The study of the body by dissection was accepted
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Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart
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Discovers blood cells
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Created the first mercury thermometer
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Invents bifocals
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Developed a vaccine for smallpox
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Invents the stethoscope.
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She became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Also inspired Florence NIghtingale to pursue nursing.
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Identifies germs as cause of disease
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Establish the germ theory of disease
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Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery
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Founded the American Red Cross
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German physicist discovers x-rays
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Discovered x-rays in 1895
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Isolated radium in 1910
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes
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Discovered penicillin
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First vaccine for influenza was discovered
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Invented the first cardiac pacemaker
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Developed the polio vaccine
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Performed the world's first heart transplant surgery