Important Medical Leaps

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  • Rene Laennec - STETHOSCOPE

  • Crawford W. Long - FIRST ANESTHETIC USED IN SURGERY

  • Elizabeth Blackwell - FIRST WOMAN WITH A MEDICAL DEGREE

  • Louis Pasteaur & Robert Koch - THEORY OF DISEASE

  • Wilhem Conrad Rontgen - FIRST XRAY DEVELOPED

  • Felix Hoffman - ASPRIN

  • Karl Landsteiner - DISCOVERS DIFFERENT BLOOD TYPES

  • Karl Landsteiner - FIRST SUCCESSFUL BLOOD TRANSFUSION

  • Edward Mellanby - VITAMIN D

    Without it, a person will expierience rickets.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming - Penicillin

  • Bernard Fantus - FIRST BLOOD BANK

  • Selman A. Waksman - STREPTOMYCIN

    the antibiotic that cures tuberculosis
  • Alfred G. Gilman & Louis S. Goodman - CHEMOTHERAPY

  • Paul Zoll - PACEMAKER

  • Jonas Salk - FIRST POLIO VACCINE

  • Thomas Fogarty - FIRST BALLOON CATHETER

  • Christian Barnard - FIRST HUMAN HEART TRANSPLANT

  • Dean Kamen - INSULIN PUMP

  • Robert S. Ledley - FIRST CAT SCAN

  • Raymand Damadian - FIRST MRI DEVELOPED