medicine of the modern age by divince manaysay

Blood compatibility and rejection

Jan 1, 1901

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

Jan 1, 1901

Alois Alzheimer identifies the first case of what becomes known as Alzheimer's disease

The existance of vitamin D

Jan 1, 1906

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

Jan 1, 1907

First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique

Cure for sleeping sickness

Jan 1, 1907

Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness

Stereotatic Method was invented

Jan 1, 1908

Victor Horsley and R. Clarke invents the stereotactic method

First Laparoscopy on humans

Oct 19, 1910

Hans Christian Jacobaeus performs the first laparoscopy on humans

Malarial Fever Shock Therapy

Oct 19, 1917

Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovers the malarial fever shock therapy for general paresis of the insane

The discovery of Vitamin D

Jan 1, 1921

Edward Mellanby discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets

The discovery of insulin

Oct 19, 1921

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

Epidural Anesthesia

Oct 19, 1921

Fidel Pagés pioneers epidural anesthesia

Diptheria Vaccine

Oct 19, 1923

First vaccine for Diphtheria

Pertussis vaccine

Oct 19, 1926

First vaccine for Pertussis

Vaccine for Tuberculosis

Oct 19, 1927

First vaccine for Tuberculosis

Tetanus Vaccine

Oct 19, 1927

First vaccine for Tetanus

Discovery of Penicillin

Oct 19, 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

Human Electroencephalography

Oct 19, 1929

Hans Berger discovers human electroencephalography

Cure for Streptococcus

Oct 19, 1932

Gerhard Domagk develops a chemotherapeutic cure for streptococcus

Insulin Shock Therapy

Oct 19, 1933

Manfred Sakel discovers insulin shock therapy

Yellow Fever Vaccine

Oct 19, 1935

First vaccine for Yellow Fever

Metrazol Shock Therapy

Oct 19, 1935

Ladislas J. Meduna discovers metrazol shock therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy

Oct 19, 1938

Ladislas J. Meduna discovers metrazol shock therapy

Dialysis Machine was built

Oct 19, 1943

Willem J Kolff build the first dialysis machine