Health Technologies

  • Doctor René Laennec develops stethoscope

    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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    Health Technologies

  • First Vaccine for Rabies

    First Vaccine for Rabies

    Human having Rabies became very rare as a result of these vaccines
  • X-Ray

    X-Ray

    Discovery of X-Rays
  • Treatment for Malaria

    Treatment for Malaria

    Discovery of treating Malaria but till this day it continues to be experimental
  • First Vaccine for Plague

    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

    Asprin was discovered and still used today
  • Electrocardiograph

    Electrocardiograph

    First invention used for diagnosis of Heart Disease
  • First modern practical respirator

    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

    plastic contact lens designed to cover only the eye's cornea. and helps people see better
  • Artificial Heart

    Artificial Heart

    First Artificial Heart put in Dog and survived 90 minutes
  • CAT scan is introduced

    CAT scan is introduced

    the most important development in medical filming since the x-ray
  • Vitro Fertilization

    Vitro Fertilization

    First Test Tube Baby ever made
  • The World Wide Web is created

    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

    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

    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

    Cloned Sheep

    Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammel cloned from an adult cell and died in 2003
  • Artificial Kidney

    Artificial Kidney

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  • Egyptian toe prosthetics

    Egyptian toe prosthetics

    oldest prosthetic devices were Egyptian wooden and leather toes in the 950 B.C.