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romans began sanitation systems
Aqueducts were built to bring fresh water in and waste out to keep the city clean and free of disease -
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3500-500 B.C.E Egyptians
They were the first to keep acurate health records and used medicines to heal diseases -
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400 BCE hippocrates wrote the hippocratic oath
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Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
dark and middle ages
the study of medical science stopped and herbal remedies were often used -
Jan 1, 1000
First school of medicine
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Jan 1, 1492
Christopheer discovered America
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Jan 1, 1508
Leonardo da Vinci studied the human body with corpses
By this time he had already conducted ten or more human disections -
William Harvey descibed the circulation of blood in the heart
He observed the heart in living animals and proved that blood moves around the body and back to the heart -
America was declared a country
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Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals
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Edward Jenner developed a vaccine for smallpox
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope
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James Bundle first blood transfussion
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Elizabeth Blackwell became a doctor
She was the first woman in the U.S. to qualify as a doctor -
Florance Nightengale started the first nursing school
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Gregory mendel published results of his research of patterns of heredity
Gregory Mendel researched the patterns of heredity for six years using pea plants -
Joseph Lister first used antiseptic during surgery
He believed that disease was carried by microbes in the air and that a cut had to be thuroughly cleaned in order to keep the patient from recieving the bacteria carrying microbes -
Robert Koch developed the culture plat method to identify pathogens
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Clara Barton founded the Red Cross
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William Roentgen discovered x-rays
He first tested the x-ray on his wifes hand -
Sigmond Frued studied the effects of the mind on the body
He was determined that the mind and body work together -
Marie Curie isolated radium
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine
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Chrisian Bernard preformed the worlds first heart transplant
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Vietnam War
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First test tube baby
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Dolly the sheep was born
She was the first cloned mammal
