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procedure which consists of making an incision on the anterior aspect of the neck and opening a direct airway through an incision in the trachea.
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Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad
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Avicenna writesThe Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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Roger Bacon invents spectacles
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People thought that prayers were the only way to stop this thing. No one had any idea that it was being carried by flea infested rats.
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Thanks to De Vinci's artwork the understanding of human anotmy is so great now. Some people belive this is one of the greatest medical discorvyer to come from the Renaissance
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He wrote a book known as “De Humaini Corporis Fabrica”. This book became a very important book ever written on the human anatomy. He dissected corpses and examined them after which he detailed the human anatomy.
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He introduced the method of tying arteries after amputation to stop loss of blood
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Zacharias Janssen built the first compound microscope, but Antony van Leeuwenhoek created a better years later with 10 times more of the power
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Peter Chamberlen invented the obstetrical forceps, used to free a baby from the womb during a difficult birth without hurting or killing baby or mother.
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Edward Jenner was scientist experimenting with cowpox's for years but discovered the cure for smallpox's
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discovered by seeing children playing with a log.Which gave Doctor Laennee the idea for the stethoscope
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It was one of the most feared infections disease
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was the first blood transfusion, the first two subjects were with two dogs. Richard Lower almost drained a dogs body of all its blood and revived it with another dogs blood
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Wilhelm Conrad was the first to discover the x-ray
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Paul Dudley White introduces the electrocardiograph to the United States.
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Penicillin was developed into a widely available medical product that provided quick and complete treatment of previously incurable bacterial illnesses, with a wider range of targets and fewer side effects than sulfa drugs. it wasn't for medical use until the 1940's
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While treating victims of the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital physicians demonstrate the efficacy of a new approach to burn treatment and the value of new blood bank and emergency-response plans
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The first case of HIV was discovered
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Gene therapy is the modifying of someone’s DNA to treat disease, rather than just treating the symptoms like most drugs on the market
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Surgeons at Beth Israel Deaconess perform the first adult live-donor liver transplant in New England
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For the first time the world could read the complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 23,000 genes do.
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The first attempt at a cancer vaccination
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This is being used everywhere from improving dentures to improving 3D printed models being used to plan complex neurosurgical procedures, craniofacial reconstruction and spinal surgery.
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Johnson & Johnson has developed an Ebola vaccine at its Janssen Pharmaceutica Company
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virus transmitted by mosquitoes which typically causes asymptomatic or mild infection
