19th Century Medical Advances

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    1800- Sir Humphry Davy announces the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide.

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    1803- Morphine was discovered

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    1816- Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope.

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    1818- British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

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    1842- American surgeon Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic during surgery but does not publish his results.

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    1844- Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.

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    1846-Boston Dentist Dr. William Morton demonstrates ether’s anesthetic properties during a tooth extraction.

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    1849- Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree.

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    1867-Joseph Lister develops antiseptic surgical methods, using carbolic acid to clean wounds and surgical instruments.

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    1870’s- Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch established the germ theory of disease.

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    1870- Birth control was discovered

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    1879- First vaccine for cholera

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    1881- First vaccine for anthrax

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    1882-First vaccine for rabies

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    1885- Cocaine was used as a local anesthetic

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    1885- Whisky was also used as a local anesthetic

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    1890- Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcjVRgthqvo1895- German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers x-rays.

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    1896- First vaccine for typhoid fever

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    1897- First vaccine for plague

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    1897- Ronald Ross demonstrates that malaria parasites are transmitted through mosquitos

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    1899- Felix Hoffman develops aspirin