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  Andreas Vesalius publishes De Fabrica Corporis Humani which corrects Greek medical errors and revolutionizes European medicine
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  Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy
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  James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
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  They will be a cure for cancer , and how to prevent it.