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c. 2000 BCE

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c. 550 BCE

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c. 400 BCE

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c. 280 BCE

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c. 100 BCE

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c. 50

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158

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c. 950

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c. 1000

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1087

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c. 1489
c. 1500
1513

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1543

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1545

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1564

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c. 1580

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1610

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1628

Go to Harvey, William (1578–1657) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.)

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1658

Go to Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1665

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1667

Go to transfusion in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.)

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1717

Go to Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1752

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1761

Go to percussion n. in A Dictionary of Nursing (5 ed.)

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1775

Go to Cook, James (1728–79) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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1784
1785

Go to Withering, William (1741–99) in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (1 ed.)

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1796

Go to Hahnemann, Samuel (1755–1843) in A Dictionary of Dentistry (1 ed.)

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1816

Go to Laënnec, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781–1826) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.)

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1828

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1832

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1846

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1847
1851

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1853
1854

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1855
1860
1861

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1865
1875

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c. 1882

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1885

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1887

Go to Fick, Adolf Eugen (1829–1921) in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.)

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1897
1900

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Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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Go to Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936) in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.)

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1903

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Go to Einthoven, Willem (1860–1927) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.)

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1904

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1906

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Go to Bordet, Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent (1870–1961) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to allergy in Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise (1 ed.)

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1907

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1909

Go to Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri (1866–1936) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.)

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1910

Go to sickle cell anaemia in A Dictionary of Biomedicine (1 ed.)

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1911

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1912

Go to Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1915

Go to Typhoid Mary in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.)

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1916
1918

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1920

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1921

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1922

Go to Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (1891–1941) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.)

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1923

Go to Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1928

Go to Ellis, Henry Havelock (1859–1939) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.)

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1932

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1937
1938
1940

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1950
1953

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1960

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c. 1961

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1962
1964

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1967

Go to Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (1922–2001) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1969

Go to in vitro fertilization in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.)

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1972

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1978
1979

Go to smallpox in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.)

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1981

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1986

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1998

Go to Viagra n. in A Dictionary of Psychology (3 ed.)

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2000

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2003

Go to severe acute respiratory syndrome in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.)

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2005

Go to SARS in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.)

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Go to transplant in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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2007

Go to Red Cross, International in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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2009

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2011

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