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these helped in understanding the organs and systems of the human body
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medical students would deliver babies after coming from the cadaver lab without washing their hands
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determined the mind and body work together
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Advances in scope surgery began early on. The avantage of this new technique is that there is no need to make a large incision. In 1987 German Gustav Killian performed the first bronchoscopy. (not exact date)
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Typhoid Mary was the first healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever in the United states and she was first contacted by a Health Inspector in 1907 and discovered to be a carrier of the fever. (not exact date)
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Isolated Radium
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World War I begins July 28, 1914 and ends November 11, 1918.
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The Great Depression began in 1929 and ended in the early 1940s. It was caused by a stock market crash and affected economies world wide for several years. (not exact date)
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On May 6th, 1937 the Hindenburg attempted to land and was cuaght up in flames.
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World War II begins Semptember 1st, 1939 and ends September 2nd, 1945.
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The Vietnam war begins November 1st, 1955 and ends April 30th, 1975.
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On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He was known as a spokes person for the Civil Rights Movement.
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The first man on the moon was Neil Armstrong and he landed there on July 20, 1969 with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
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Microsurgery is surgery on a minute body structures or cells performed with teh aid of a microscope and other specialized instruments, such as a micromanipulator. The first advanced microsurgery was performed by Professor Owen in 1970. (not exact date)
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Gene Therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary diseases in particular. It was first used in 1972. (Not exact date)
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Louise Brown was born in Great Britain in 1978 and was the first test tube baby. (not exact date)
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The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster happened on April 26, 1986, in Chernobyl Ukraine. It was a large environmental disaster and caused a huge spread of radiation. 31 died after the explosion but thousands others are expected to die from the same cause later on.
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Gene mapping refers to the mapping of genese to specific locations on chromosomes. It is a critical step in the understanding of genetic diseases. The Human Genome Project was first started in 1990 by Ari Patrinos. (not exact date)
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Tissue Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an Original. Dolly the Sheep was cloned July 5th, 1996.
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he discovered anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera
became the "Father of Microbiology"
