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These provided medical care and spiritual guidance, for example, the Hotel-Dieu, founded in Lyons in 542 C. E. and the Hotel-Dieu of Paris, founded in 652 C. E.
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The first pharmacy was established in the year 754. It was established in Baghdad.
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The Saxons built the first hospital in England in 937 C. E
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The Black Death started in Asia and reached in Europe in the 1340s
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Most people lived in rural servitude. Even by 1350, the average life expectancy was 30–35 years, and 1 in 5 children died at birth.
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The most famous medieval book on herbs is probably the "Red Book of Hergest," which was written in Welsh around 1390 C.E.
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In 1796, Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule into the arm of James Phipps, an 8-year old boy. He then proved that Phipps was immune to smallpox because of the cowpox "vaccine."
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Others were sceptical, but Jenner's successful experiments were finally published in 1798
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