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Discovered the difference between small pox and measles.
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Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries.
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The Plague of Justinian affected Egypt, Europe, and West Asia. Killing 40% of the population. 25 to 50 million; 40% of poulation.
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Avicenna writes The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine.
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Roger Bacon invents spectacles.
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Leonardo de Vinci dissects corpses.
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College of Physicians founded now known as Royal College of Physicians of London is a British professional body of doctors of general medicine and its subspecialties. It received the royal charter in 1518
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The findings on human anatomy in De Fabrica Corporis Humani was published by Vesalius.
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Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope.
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Blood cells are first discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Treatise of the Scurvy becomes published stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
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The first successful appendectomy is performed.
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
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The first successful transfusion of human blood is performed.
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Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic
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Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
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Creates the first band-aid.
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Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
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First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
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First vaccine developed for whopping cough.
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First draft of human genome is announced; the finalized version is released three years later.
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Isabelle Dinoire of France was the first person to have partial face transplant while the first full face transplant happened in Spain in 2010.
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Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.
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The FDA approves the first human clinical trials in the United States for a wearable artificial kidney designed by Blood Purification Technologies Inc. out of Beverly Hills, California.
