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Antone Von Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope
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Antony Van Leeuenhoek discovered bacteria
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer
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Revolutionary War
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Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal glasses
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Edward Jenner developed vaccine for smallpox
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Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope
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Florence Nightingale started the first school of nursing
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Elizabeth Blackwell: first qualified woman doctor
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Civil War
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Joseph Lister used antiseptics for the first time during surgery
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Louis Pasteur introduced the germ theory
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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Louis Pasteur practiced medicine for the rabbies vaccine
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Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays
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Marie Curie isolated radium
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Period: to
World War I
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
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Period: to
World War II
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine
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Albert Sabin crated oral polio vaccine
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Maurice Hilleman invented the measels vaccine
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Christian Barnard performed world's first heart transplant surgery
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Maurice Hilleman invented the mumps vaccine
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Michiaki Takahashi invented chicken pox vaccine
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First Test Tube Baby is Born, Louis Brown
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First Gene Therapy to Treat Disease by William French Anderson
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Scientists clone sheep
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Scientists Discover how to use Human Skin Cells to Create Embyonic Stem Cells
