Medicine Of Modern Age - By Ann Brown

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  • Microscope

    Microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope
  • Blood Transfusions

    Blood Transfusions

    Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions
  • Blood Cells

    Blood Cells

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells
  • Small Pox

    Small Pox

    Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations
  • General Anesthetic

    General Anesthetic

    Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic
  • Syringe

    Syringe

    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe
  • Germs

    Germs

    Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease
  • Chlorea

    Chlorea

    First vaccine developed for cholera
  • Contact Lense

    Contact Lense

    First contact lenses developed
  • Typhoid Fever

    Typhoid Fever

    First vaccine developed for typhoid fever
  • Asprin

    Asprin

    Felix Hoffman develops aspirin
  • Blood Types

    Blood Types

    Karl Landsteiner introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
  • Vitamin D

    Vitamin D

    Edward Mellanby discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets
  • Insulin

    Insulin

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.
  • Diabetes

    Diabetes

    Insulin first used to treat diabetes
  • Dipheria

    Dipheria

    First vaccine developed for diphtheria.
  • Whooping Cough

    Whooping Cough

    First vaccine developed for whooping cough
  • Yellow Fever

    Yellow Fever

    First vaccine developed for yellow fever
  • Influenza

    Influenza

    First vaccine developed for influenza
  • First Kidney Transplant

    First Kidney Transplant

    Gertrude Elion patented a leukemia-fighting drug
    Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant
  • Measles

    Measles

    First vaccine developed for measles.
  • Mumps

    Mumps

    First vaccine developed for mumps
  • Test Tube Baby

    Test Tube Baby

    First test-tube baby is born
  • Meningitis

    Meningitis

    First vaccine developed for meningitis.
  • HIV & AIDS

    HIV & AIDS

    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified
  • Hepititus A

    Hepititus A

    First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.
  • Cancer

    Cancer

    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
  • Rabies

    Rabies

    First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur