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The first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in the year 754.
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Rhazes distinguished smallpox from measles for the first time in medical history. (photo is of measles)
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A manuscript of about 1265 contains the first detailed description of an anesthetic. Some of the ingredients in this include specific proportions of opium and unripe mulberry.
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Were providing healthcare for the sick
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In the year 1315 the Italian physician Mondino de Luzzi even conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators. The following year he would write Anathomia corporis humani, which is considered the first example of a modern dissection manual and the first true anatomical text.
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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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by Sir Christopher Wren
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Microscopes of this type feature reflecting rather than refracting objectives. They are used to carry out microscopy over a wide range of visible light and especially in the ultraviolet or infrared regions, where conventional optical glasses do not transmit. This was invented by Robert Hooke.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to have her name entered on the Medical Register of the United Kingdom.
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Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid
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1928 penicillin, the first true antibiotic, was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
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Ibuprofen was discovered by Dr. Stewart Adams and his colleagues in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, patented in 1961, and first made available in 1969. It became available in the United States in 1974. Ibuprofen tablets are sold under the trade names Advil and Motrin.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body in both health and disease. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio waves to generate images of the organs in the body.
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The drop in death rates from HIV in the developed world (is) due to improved medications.
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A patient would typically be left with a 10-inch scar when a doctor removed a kidney, but in late 2007 the surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic began removing kidneys through a single incision in the patient's navel.
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