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cataract surgery was performed with a thick needle. The procedure involved pushing the cornea to the back of the eye.
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It wasn't common but there is evidence proving that urine was used as an antiseptic during the middle ages. IT was recommended that all battle wounds should be washed in urine. It was also used in the plague
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Jacoba Felicie tries to practice madicine but is denied. Jacoba was a French midwife who was brought to trial for practicing medicine without license in a time when women were not allowed to.
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William Harvey published his new theory that the heart acts as a muscular pump which circulates blood around the body in the blood vessels.
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William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals which forms the basis for future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek makes a discovery of blood cells
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria.
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox. This was the first vaccine for any disease
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope. It listens to your heart beat.
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William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
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Joseph Lister develops the use of antiseptic surgical methods and publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid. Before the bandais they would wrap big wounds in cloth.
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that affects a persons blood sugar. If not treated it can resoult in death.
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Alexander Flemmings discovers penicilian
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Salk discovers polio. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, causing muscle wasting and paralysis and even death. Since 1900 there had been cycles of polio, each seeming to get stronger and more disastrous. The disease had symptoms like the flu at first
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Smallpox is eradicated
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified. It wasnt until the 1970's the virus HIV and AIDS came about
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First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Rhazws discovered the difference between smallpox and meassles He is also known for discovering alcohol and vitriol.
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the Roman Catholic Church stated that illnesses were punishments from God and that those who were ill were so because they were sinners, few argued otherwise.Any views different from the established Roman Catholic Church view could