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Humphry Davy
Humphry Davy announces the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide -
Rene Laennec
Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope -
James Blundell
James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion -
Crawford Long
Crawford Long perorms the first surgical operation using anaesthesia -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent puerperal fever -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur develops an anthrax vaccine -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur develops a rabies vaccine -
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovers medical use of X-rays in medical imaging -
Asprin
Asprin is invented in Germany -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner discovers the existance of different human blood types -
Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer identifies the first case of what becomes known as the Alzheimers disease -
Frederick Hopkins
Frederick Hopkins suggests the existance of vitamins and suggests that lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets -
Frederick Bantings and Charles Best
Frederick Bantings and Charles Best dicsover insulin- important for the treatment of diabetes -
Diphtheria
First vaccine for diphtheria -
pertussis
first vaccine for pertussis -
tuberclosis
first vaccine for tuberculosis -
tetanus
first vaccine for tetanus -
John Charnley
John Charnley performs the first hip replacment -
Alec Jefferys
Alec Jefferys performs the first DNA fingerprinting