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Publishes a book about how the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart. This book becomes the basis for modern research.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered blood cells in 1670.
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Claudius Aymand performs the first successful appendectomy.
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Benjamin Franklin created bifocals and found that colds can be passed from person to person.
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In 1796 Edward Jenner develped a vaccine for smallpox. Smallpox is a very infectious disease unique to humans.
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Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.
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James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent puerperal fever
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first doctor in 1849. She was a doctor in U.S. inspired Florence Nightingbale. She was pursuing nursing
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Louis Pasteur did an expirament which showed that rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria.
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Joseph Lister convinced other surgeons that using disinfectants and antiseptics before, during, and after surgery was a good idea, and that there would be less infections.
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. The Red Cross started in Washington D.C.
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William Roentgen discovered x-rays in 1895. The picture represents the first x ray and the big black dot is a ring that Roentgen's wife was wearing.
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]Alois Alzheimer identifies the first case of Alzheimer's disease
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Marie Curie isolated radium in 1910. Then in 1911 she recieved a Nobel Piece Prize in Chemistry,
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Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin in 1921.
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Sir Alexandar Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. Penicillin was a mistake it was a contaminated expirament.
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John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker.
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952. The chemical used to kill the polio is called formalin.
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Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant.
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Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant surgery. He was a South African Cardiac surgeon and it was successful.
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Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans
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Louise Brown was the first test tube baby. All of the people thought that Louise Brown was going to fall apart because she was made in a test tube.
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In the early 1980's AID's was identified. The government tried to overlook it at first.
