History of Medicine

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  • Blood Tranfusion on animals

    First succesfil blood transfusion on animals performed in England.

  • Thermometer

    Gabreil Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer
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  • First ever vaccine for Smallpox

    Edward Jenner develops the process of vaccination for smallpox, the first vaccine for any disease.

  • Human Blood Transfusion

    British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient for the treatment of a hemorrhage.

  • First women to earn medical degree

    Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York.

  • Aspirin comes to place!

    Felix Hoffman develops aspirin Hoffmann, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. He didnt find what he was looking for and "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid or aspirin, as we now know it.

  • ABO blood Group

    Carl Landsteiner classified the ABO blood group

  • Whooping Cough

    First vaccine developed for whooping cough.

  • Tuberculosis

    First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

  • Penicillin

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin in 1928.

  • Percy Lavon

    Percy Lavon Julian synthesized the medicines for glaucoma and rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Ultrasounds

    Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonics - ultrasound

  • DNA Structure

    James Watson and Francis Crick work on the structure of the DNA molecule. This is very important in history!

  • Very First Heart Transplant

    Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant

  • Vaccine that helped with infections in the 19th century

    First vaccine developed for mumps

  • Chicken Pox

    First vaccine was developed for chicken pox

  • Kidney Failures?

    Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine in 1985.

  • Clone?

    Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone!

  • First ever Face Transplant

    First face transplant was performed in France on a woman whose lower face was destroyed by a dog attack

  • Vaccine for Cancer?

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer