Top 10 Medical Advancements in the Last 400 Years

Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

1670

he dropped blood samples in a pond and observed them through a microscope.

Edward Jenner discovers how to vaccinate smallpox.

1796

First vaccination process discovered for any disease.

René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

1816

Physicians can now listen to a person's heartbeat.

William T.G. Morgan invents anesthesia, and it becomes widely available.

1846

Anesthesia made some surgeries more avaliable. Ex. Removing tumors in cancer patients

Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York

1849

Later opened a medical college for women in 1867

Louis Pasteur identifies germs as a cause of diseases.

1857

He also developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax.

Frederick G. Banting Insulin is created to help treat diabetes.

1922

Frederick Banting and John Macleod were awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1923.

First Blood Bank is opened.

1937

Dr. Bernard Fantus opened in Cook county hospital in Chicago.

Chickenpox vaccine is allowed for use in United States.

1995

Formally called the Varicella Vaccine, it was first created in Japan by Michiaki Takahashi

Break through in cancer therapies through The Cancer Genome Atlas

2015

Cancer Genome Atlas helps prevent and treat patients' cancer by specification of their DNA.