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medical practitioners in medieval Europe who, unlike many doctors of the time, performed surgery, often on the war wounded
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pharmacist prepares compounded medications as prescribed and ordered by the prescribing physician
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Benjamin Waterhouse introduces the smallpox vaccine to the United States and helps gain acceptance for the new procedure.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever.
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John Collins Warren, the School’s first dean, provides the first public demonstration of anesthesia in surgery.
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