Medicine Through Time

By Quacks
  • Edward Jenner

    Smallpox vaccine
  • James Simpson

    Discovered a highly effective anesthetic via experimentation
  • Louis Pasteur

    Germ Theory
  • Joseph Lister

    Antiseptic surgery using carbolic spray
  • Robert Koch

    Tuberculosis germ identified
  • John Snow

    Cholera is water-borne.
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Salvarsan 606 magic bullet
  • Alexander Flemming

    The properties of penicillin
  • Florence Nightingale

    Improved conditions in hospitals, training of nurses and the improvement of the care of patients.
  • May & Baker Company

    M&B 693
  • Ernst Chain and Howard Florey

    1938-41/44 Penicillin as an antibiotic