Medicine of the modern age by Liam Gray.

Blood groups discovery.

Jan 1, 1901

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

the electrocardiograph.

Jan 1, 1913

Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph - ECG

vitamin D.

Jan 1, 1921

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

band-aid

Jan 2, 1921

Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid.

diabetes.

Jan 1, 1922

Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

Whooping coughing.

Jan 1, 1926

First vaccine developed for whooping cough.

First vaccine for tuberculosis and tetanus.

Jan 1, 1927

First vaccine developed for tuberculosis and the First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

penicillin.

Jan 1, 1928

Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

yellow fever.

Jan 1, 1935

First vaccine developed for yellow fever.

Ultrasound.

Jan 1, 1942

Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonics - ultrasound.

antibiotic streptomycin.

Jan 1, 1943

Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.

influenza

Jan 1, 1945

First vaccine developed for influenza.

cardiac pacemaker.

Jan 1, 1950

John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker

measles.

Jan 1, 1964

First vaccine developed for measles.

Mumps.

Jan 1, 1967

First vaccine developed for mumps.

rubella.

Jan 1, 1970

First vaccine developed for rubella

chicken pox.

Jan 1, 1974

First vaccine developed for chicken pox

pneumonia.

Jan 1, 1977

First vaccine developed for pneumonia.

test-tube baby

Jan 1, 1978

First test-tube baby is born.

meningitis.

Feb 2, 1978

First vaccine developed for meningitis.

smallpox.

Jan 1, 1980

Smallpox is eradicated.

hepatitis B.

Jan 1, 1981

First vaccine developed for hepatitis B

hepatitis A.

Jan 1, 1992

First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.

cancer.

Jan 1, 2006

First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.