History of Medicine

By jakub22

  • Humphry Davy

    Humphry Davy announces the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • Rene Laennec

    Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope

  • James Blundell

    James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion

  • Crawford Long

    Crawford Long perorms the first surgical operation using anaesthesia

  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent puerperal fever

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur develops an anthrax vaccine

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur develops a rabies vaccine

  • Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

    Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovers medical use of X-rays in medical imaging

  • Asprin

    Asprin is invented in Germany

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner discovers the existance of different human blood types

  • Alois Alzheimer

    Alois Alzheimer identifies the first case of what becomes known as the Alzheimers disease

  • Frederick Hopkins

    Frederick Hopkins suggests the existance of vitamins and suggests that lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets

  • Frederick Bantings and Charles Best

    Frederick Bantings and Charles Best dicsover insulin- important for the treatment of diabetes

  • Diphtheria

    First vaccine for diphtheria

  • pertussis

    first vaccine for pertussis

  • tuberclosis

    first vaccine for tuberculosis

  • tetanus

    first vaccine for tetanus

  • John Charnley

    John Charnley performs the first hip replacment

  • Alec Jefferys

    Alec Jefferys performs the first DNA fingerprinting