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Galen took further to his understanding of bodily functions and performed animal even human decisions and was able to figure out that arteries carries blood rather than air.
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Hospitals is a place where patients are treated and cared for
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Most people in Medieval times never saw a doctor. They were treated by the local wise-woman who was skilled in the use of herbs, or by the priest, or the barber, who pulled out teeth, set broken bones and performed other operations.
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By this time there were medical schools throughout Europe
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Text of dioscorides is lost there are man surviving copies, his text formed the basis of much of the herbal medicine practiced until 1500 A.D.
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Herophius wrote at least nine works, including a commentary on Hipperates, a book for midwives and treatises on anatomy, and causes of sudden death.
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The black Death and the rise of florence
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Leonardo da vinci dissects corpses
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Vesalius publishes findings on human anatomy
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Harvey conducted a comparative study on animals and humans to realize that blood is not consumed but pumped through the body by the heart.
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James Lind publishes his treatise of the scurvy stating that citrus fruit to prevent it
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Karl Landstiner introduces the system to classify blood into A,B,A,B, and O groups
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Earle Dickson invented the band-aid
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Discovered for the first time that the brain has a central role in controlling bone formation density.
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Discovered for the first time that the brain has a central role in controlling bone formation density.
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Found a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer
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President George W. Bush visited NIH touring the cancer research laboratory and participating in a discussion on cancer prevention
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