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Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries
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Discovered the difference between measles and smallpox.
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Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
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Spectacles were invented.
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Islamic Hospitals; healthcare for the sick.
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Use of Scientific Method begins.
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Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions.
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Allowed study of microorganisms like bacteria.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells.
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Francis Bacon uses microscope to discover plague fleas.
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Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations.
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Stethoscope was invented.
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Louis Pasteur identifies germs as clause of disease.
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First vaccine was developed for cholera.
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First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur.
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First contact lenses developed.
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First vaccine developed for whooping cough.
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First vaccine developed for tuberculosis.
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine.
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
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First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.
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First HPV vaccine approved.
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Laurent Lantieri performs the first full face transplant.
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Great Ebola Outbreak - First cases and deaths in Europe and America.
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A 3D printer is used for first ever skull transplant.
