Medical History

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  • Zacharius Jannssen invented the microscope

  • Anton Von Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer

    Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer

  • Revolution

  • Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope

    Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope

  • Edward Jenner developed the small pox vaccine

  • First practical anesthetic is introduced.

    They used this in surgerys.

  • Florence Nightengale

  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Louis Pasteur began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria

  • Joseph Lister

    He was the first one to start cleaning his tools before performing surgerys.
  • Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

    Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross

  • William Roentgen discovered X-rays

  • Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

    Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

    Bayer started selling it on the shelfs that year as well.

  • Different blood types are found

    Karl Landsteiner discovered different blood types

  • William Einthoven

    William Einthoven built an electrocardiograph which records heart pulses.

  • Marie Curie isolated radium

  • WWI

  • Influenza

    Influenza

    It killed millions of people. Started in the war bases.

  • The first vaccines for Turberculosis and Tetanus are developed.

  • Alexander Fleming discovered penicillion

    Alexander Fleming discovered penicillion

  • WWII

  • Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine

    Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine

  • First open heart surgery is performed

  • First Human Heart transplant

  • The Insulin Pump

    Dean Komen invented the insulin pump making it easier to get insulin.

  • Louise Brown

  • Dolly the sheep is born

    Dolly was the first mammel cloned from adult cells. (she died in 2003)

  • Emil von Behring discovers antioxins

    He used this to develop tetanus and dithpheria vaccines

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