medicine of the modern age by divince manaysay

By cooookieeee_monster
  • Blood compatibility and rejection

    Blood compatibility and rejection

    Austrian-American Karl Landsteiner describes blood compatibility and rejection (i.e., what happens when a person receives a blood transfusion from another human of either compatible or incompatible blood type), developing the ABO system of blood typing. This system classifies the bloods of human beings into A, B, AB, and O groups. Landsteiner receives the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this discovery
  • Alzheimer's Disease

    Alzheimer's Disease

    Alois Alzheimer identifies the first case of what becomes known as Alzheimer's disease
  • The existance of vitamin D

    The existance of vitamin D

    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health. Receives the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
  • The first successful blood transfusion

    The first successful blood transfusion

    First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique
  • Cure for sleeping sickness

    Cure for sleeping sickness

    Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness
  • Stereotatic Method was invented

    Stereotatic Method was invented

    Victor Horsley and R. Clarke invents the stereotactic method
  • First Laparoscopy on humans

    First Laparoscopy on humans

    Hans Christian Jacobaeus performs the first laparoscopy on humans
  • Malarial Fever Shock Therapy

    Malarial Fever Shock Therapy

    Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovers the malarial fever shock therapy for general paresis of the insane
  • The discovery of Vitamin D

    The discovery of Vitamin D

    Edward Mellanby discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets
  • The discovery of insulin

    The discovery of insulin

    Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin – important for the treatment of diabetes
  • Epidural Anesthesia

    Epidural Anesthesia

    Fidel Pagés pioneers epidural anesthesia
  • Diptheria Vaccine

    Diptheria Vaccine

    First vaccine for Diphtheria
  • Pertussis vaccine

    Pertussis vaccine

    First vaccine for Pertussis
  • Vaccine for Tuberculosis

    Vaccine for Tuberculosis

    First vaccine for Tuberculosis
  • Tetanus Vaccine

    Tetanus Vaccine

    First vaccine for Tetanus
  • Discovery of Penicillin

    Discovery of Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • Human Electroencephalography

    Human Electroencephalography

    Hans Berger discovers human electroencephalography
  • Cure for Streptococcus

    Cure for Streptococcus

    Gerhard Domagk develops a chemotherapeutic cure for streptococcus
  • Insulin Shock Therapy

    Insulin Shock Therapy

    Manfred Sakel discovers insulin shock therapy
  • Yellow Fever Vaccine

    Yellow Fever Vaccine

    First vaccine for Yellow Fever
  • Metrazol Shock Therapy

    Metrazol Shock Therapy

    Ladislas J. Meduna discovers metrazol shock therapy
  • Electroconvulsive therapy

    Electroconvulsive therapy

    Ladislas J. Meduna discovers metrazol shock therapy
  • Dialysis Machine was built

    Dialysis Machine was built

    Willem J Kolff build the first dialysis machine