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Chinese first starting using acupuncture to relieve pain and congression in 113 BC.
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Hippocrates was born in 460 BC and he is known as the father of medicine.
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During this time period first strict measures for control of public hygiene instituted.
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During the 1300's was the first dissection of human corpse.
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First recorded regulations for mid-wives.
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Leonardo da Vinci disects bodies. He was an artist who used dissection to draw the human body.
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In 1510, Leonardo da Vinci used dissection to draw th human body and published a book in 1543 about the drawings of human anatomy.
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Anton Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope.
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William Harvey explains the circulatory system, and describes circulation of blood to and from the heart.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit, created the first mercury thermometer in 1714.
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Edward Jenner developed the vaccine for smallpox.
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope.
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Florence Nightingale was born in 1820, and she is known to be the founder of modern nursing.
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Gregor Mendel,born in 1822, established the patterns of heredity.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
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In 1857, Louis Pasteur began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria.
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in 1867, Joseph Lister began using disinfectants and anitseptics during surgery.
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In 1870, Robert Koch developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
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William Roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895
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Marie Curie isolated radium in 1910.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952.
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine using dead polio virus in 1952
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First successful heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard on a man named Louis Washkansky.
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Scientists clone sheep.
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The Romans began public health and sanitation systems in 800 BC.
