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Doctor René Laennec develops stethoscope
the first stethoscope ever built out of respect for women. when attempting to diagnose a patient with a heart condition he rolled up some newspaper and put it on the patients chest. And it made him more respectful to women patients since putting your ears to the womans chest was considered immodest. -
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First Vaccine for Rabies
Human having Rabies became very rare as a result of these vaccines -
X-Ray
Discovery of X-Rays -
Treatment for Malaria
Discovery of treating Malaria but till this day it continues to be experimental -
First Vaccine for Plague
The vaccine prevented agonising infections and rodent control became even more important in certian areas where it was known for infections -
Asprin
Asprin was discovered and still used today -
Electrocardiograph
First invention used for diagnosis of Heart Disease -
First modern practical respirator
The first modern practical respirator was built made out of an iron box and two vacuum cleaners and help for those who suffered polio -
Plastic contact lens
plastic contact lens designed to cover only the eye's cornea. and helps people see better -
Artificial Heart
First Artificial Heart put in Dog and survived 90 minutes -
CAT scan is introduced
the most important development in medical filming since the x-ray -
Vitro Fertilization
First Test Tube Baby ever made -
The World Wide Web is created
The first website which was a personal database of people and software model and soon evolving to include videos of cats, tweets and otherb types of ideas. -
Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
First Artificial Heart in a patient by the name of Barney Clark and lived for 112 days -
Deep-brain electrical stimulation system
chief of the neurosurgery at the university of Grenoble implants a deep-brain electrical stimulation system into a patient with advanced parkinsons disease for the first time. -
Cloned Sheep
Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammel cloned from an adult cell and died in 2003 -
Artificial Kidney
First Artificial Kidney with First clinical approved human trials "Medical Advances Timeline." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2015. "Health Technologies Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements." Health Technologies Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2015. "A Brief History of Health Technology | Rock Health." Rock Health. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2015. -
Egyptian toe prosthetics
oldest prosthetic devices were Egyptian wooden and leather toes in the 950 B.C.
