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Persian physician Rhazes identifies smallpox
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Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine
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Hildegard von Bingen
draft about natural and healing -
the Book of Optics, would be considered the most important research in the field for hundreds of years.
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Roger Bacon invents spectacles
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Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses
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the microscope is invented
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
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blood cells are discovered
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
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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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A dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide.
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First contact lenses developed
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Felix Hoffman develops aspirin
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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First vaccine developed for measles
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Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans.
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First vaccine developed for hepatitis A
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Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone
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scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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DNA from an extinct woolly mammoth is spliced into that of an elephant.
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The success of an first-time experimental surgery will determine future availability for U.S. cancer patients and veterans with injuries to the pelvic region.
