medical breakthroughs

By paygeflake
  • 1st successful blood transfusion

    1st successful blood transfusion

    Jean-Baptiste Denis in France and Richard Lower and Edmund King in England separately from sheep to humans
  • 1st american hospital opened

    1st american hospital opened

    at first this was just a temporary hospital, but by 1804 the third wing was completed, Benjamin Franklin was key in this
  • first vaccination

    first vaccination

    this was the 1st vaccine ever developed, it was for smallpox
  • chloroform is found

    chloroform is found

    cloroform was first found by American physician Samuel Guthrie
  • louis pasteur proves that micro-organisms exist

    louis pasteur proves that micro-organisms exist

    he presented this to scientists at the University of Paris
  • 1st successful heart surgery

    1st successful heart surgery

    preformed by Dr. Ludwig Rehn
  • antibiotics are accidentally discovered

    antibiotics are accidentally discovered

    found by Alexander Flemming
  • 1st cardiac pacemaker developed

    1st cardiac pacemaker developed

    developed by canadian, John Hopps
  • polio vaccine applied nationwide

    polio vaccine applied nationwide

    developed by Jonas Stalk
  • baboon heart implanted into a little girl who survived for 3 weeks

    baboon heart implanted into a little girl who survived for 3 weeks

    team headed by Leonard L. Bailey