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The Egyptians were the first civilization to have accurate heal records.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented the first practical microscopes, and used them to study bacteria.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer in 1714.
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The first successful Caesarean section was performed by Doctor Jesse Bennett on his own wife.
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The Small-Pox vaccine was invented in 1796 by Edward Jenner.
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In 1816 Rene Laennec invented the first stethoscope.
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James Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion on humans in 1818.
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Louis Joseph Dufilho became America's first licensed pharmacist in the early 1800s.
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Joseph Liester became the Father of modern surgery when he lowered infection rates with his use of antiseptics.
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In 1827 John Peter Mettauer performed the first cleft palate operation.
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Ignaz Semmelweis encouraged physicians to ash their hands after autopsies and before delivering babies, giving birth to infection control.
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The first narcosis with chloroform was performed by James Young Simpson on himself on November 4, 1847.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female doctor in January, 1849.
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the first successful skin transplant was performed by Jacques-Louis Reverdin in 1869.
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In the nineteenth century cocaine was used to numb pain in dental procedures.
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first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.
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In the 19th century they would perform horrid operations such as jaw removal or toe amputations.
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In the 19th-20th century railyards were so dangerous they needed their own surgeons on sight, leading to a whole new branch of medial practice.
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In 1954, the kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully.
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St.Jude Children's Research Hospital was the first fully integrated children's hospital in the South.