The HISTORY of MEDECINE
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1923-2010 Walter Plowright & the Rinderpest vaccination
1922-2018 Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and the Study of Genetics
1881-1955 Sir Alexander Fleming and the development of penecillin
1855-1924 Luther Emmett Holt and the Development of Pediatry
1853 Queen Victoria and the use of chloroform during childbirth
1827-1912 Joseph Lister and the understanding of infection  
1820-1910 Florence Nightingale - far more than "just a nurse" but a truly inspirational human
1781-1826 René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec - inventor of the stethoscope
1665 The Plague came to Eyam Village
1578-1657 William Harvey: discoverer of the circulation of blood in the body  
mid to late 14th c. The Bubonic Plague or The Black Death
527 The Bubonic Plague in the Byzantium Empire (aka Eastern Roman Empire)