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1610
 
   
The first documented Caesarian section in which the mother survives      
1628
 
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William Harvey publishes a short book, De Motu Cordis, proving the circulation of the blood       
1658
 
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Samuel Pepys has a two-ounce stone cut from his bladder, in an operation carried out at home in the presence of his family      
1665
 
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The first recorded attempt at blood transfusion, at the Royal Society in London, proves that the idea is feasible       
1667
 
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The first successful human blood transfusion is achieved in Paris by Jean Baptiste Denis, apparently saving the life of a 15-year-old boy       
1717
 
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, observing the Turkish practice of inoculation against smallpox, submits her infant son to the treatment       
1752
 
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English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth      
1761
 
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Austrian physician Joseph Leopold Auenbrugger describes his new diagnostic technique – percussion, or listening to a patient's chest and tapping       
1775
 
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Captain Cook publishes his discovery of a preventive cure against scurvy, in the form of a regular ration of lemon juice       
1784
 
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Benjamin Franklin, irritated at needing two pairs of spectacles, commissions from a lens-grinder the first bifocals