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Medical Research Timeline

By Leecy17
  • Germ theory of Disease

  • Malaria - Parasites life cycle discovered

  • MIce & Genetics

  • Transplant surgery first performed on a human

  • Diphtheria prevented by immunisation

  • Vitamin A discovered

  • Blood transfusion

  • Neurotransmission demonstrated

  • Insulin isolated

  • Pernicious anaemia

  • Heparin used as an anticoagulant

  • Penicillin protects mice against infection

  • Dialysis developed for kidney failure

  • Polio vaccine developed

  • Cardiac pacemakers

  • Artificial heart valves

  • heart transplants successful in humans

  • Smallpox eradicated through vaccination

  • Leprosy treatments developed

  • AZT - the first drug treatment for HIV

  • Hib - menigitis vaccin

  • Cloning Dolly the sheep

  • Sequencing & anakysis of the mouse genome

  • First tissue-engineered whole-organ transplant