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Began the study of disease
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Earliest people to keep accurate records
Identified some specific diseases
Used medicines to heal disease
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Although the school of Salerno produced no brilliant genius and no startling discovery, it was the outstanding medical institution of its time and the parent of the great medieval schools.
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Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals."
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Mondino de Liuzzi carried out the first recorded public dissection around 1315.
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Midwifery is a health care profession in which providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labor and birth, during the postpartum period, and between pregnancies.
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Rebirth of science
Medical schools were built
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The science of human anatomy is concerned with the structural organization of the human body. The
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Beginning in 1616, William Harvey, was the first to demonstrate, through dissection, that the circulation of blood through the human body is continuous.
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Obstetrics established as a seperate branch of medicine.
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The proclamation made by the second American Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which asserted the freedom and independence of the 13 Colonies from Great Britain
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The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine to be developed. first publicised by Edward Jenner in 1796.
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Ether is believed to have been first synthesized by German botanist and chemist Valerius Cordus, who called his discovery "sweet oil of vitriol" and praised its medicinal properties.
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Began when congress required the U.S. Customs Service to stop entry of adulterated drugs from overseas.
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First women to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing.
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a war between citizens of the same country.
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Tools such as microscope, thermometer and x-rays
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one of the most honored women in American history. At age 60, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led it for the next 23 years.
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This discovery allowed doctors to see inside the body to discover what was wrong with the patient.
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Since aspirin's been introduced it has been the most popular drug used of all time.
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In an effort to stop food adulteration and quack remedies-the two major evils and targets of a 25-year crusade for federal regulation of food and drugs.
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Marie Curie was a French-Polish physicist and chemist, famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
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a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
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a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand
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Performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.
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Louise Brown was the first successful tube baby girl in Britain.
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In 1981, the first cases of AIDS were identified among gay men in the United States, acquiring the designation, GRID, however, scientists later found evidence that the disease existed in the world for some years prior,
