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The First strict measure for control of public hygience were instituted
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Roger bacon promoted chemical remedies to treat disease, he also researched optics and bending of light rays
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Gunpowder was first noted in a book. It was invented by the Chinese in the year 1000 AD
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The first dissection of the human corpse
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the First recorded regulations for midwives
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Oxford and Cambridge colleges in England created the first position of authority or chairs of medicine
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The development of the printing press by Gutenberg empowered people to spread their knowlege
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Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci used dissection in order to draw the human body more realistically
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The First scientific study of human anatomy was published
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The first human anatomy book was published Andresase Vesalius
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Pare a french surgeon establshed the use of ligutures to bind arteries and stop bllding, eliminatd use of boiling oild to cauterize wounds, and he also improved the treatment of fractures and promoted us of artifical limbs.
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Fallipius identified the fallopian tubes in females
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Servetus descrbied the circulatory system in the lungs, he also explained how digestion is a sourve of heat for the body
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Blood circulation was first described
Bacteria was discovered -
Willam Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek invemted the microscope.
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First Law requiring licensed medical practitioners
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Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer
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Medicine and science are reborn after to dark and middle ages in history
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A three wheel car, powered by steam, with an average speed of 2.3mph,
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Ben Franklin invented the bifocals for glasses
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the Vaccine against Smallpox was developed by Edward Jenner
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Rene Laennec invented the Stethescope in 1819
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Semmelweis encouraged physicians to was their hands with limie after performing autopsiesand before delivering vavies to prevent puerperal fever, but his idea was rejected.
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The First practical anesthetic, ether was introduced
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Dr william Morton, and American Dentist began to use ether as an anteseptic. (Picture) illustration of William Morton using ether.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female physician in the United States
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Sigmund Freund studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. He determined that the mind and body work toether. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry. Sig
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-worked as a nurse on the battlefield during the Civil War
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the Germ therory was first introduced by Louis pasteur and Robert Hoch
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881, Barton was also known for her job as a nurse in the battle field. She became nicknamed the "Angel of the Battlefield."
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Lived from 1856-1839
Came up with pyschology, and pschyiatry
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Marie Curie isolated radium in 1910 but died from the posioning of isolating it.
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Alexander Fleming discvered penicillin, the first antibiotic. This was considered one of the most important discoveries in the 1900s.
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Jones Salk discovered an altered polio virus vaccine.
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Albert Sabin created the oral polio vaccine, whic was more effective that Salk's vaccine.
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Louise Brown was the first baby born using invetro fertilization. Became known as the "test tube baby"
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A sheep was cloned, and named Dolly
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Rhazes based diagnoses on observations of the signs and symptoms of disease
Rhazes developed criteria for distinguished between smallpox and measles
Suggested blood was the cause of many infectious diseases
Began the use of animal gut for suture material
