Medical Milestones in the Past 400 Years

By TheRealWildOne

  • Discovery of Circulation

    Dr. William Harvey discovers blood circulation

  • First Vaccine

    Dr. Edward Jenner makes the first vaccine against small pox

  • Fighting Rabies

    Dr. Louis Pasteur discovers the vaccine against rabies

  • The First X-Ray

    Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Rōntgen performed the first X-ray

  • Fighting Tuberculosis

    Dr. Albert Calmette and Dr. Camille Guérin develop a vaccine for tuberculosis

  • Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovers the first penicillin

  • DNA

    James Watson and Francis Crick discover DNA

  • HIV

    Luc Montagnier discovers HIV

  • Clone

    British scientists create the first clone of a sheep named Dolly

  • Face Transplant

    Two doctors successfully performed the first face transplant on a woman severely injured by a dog

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