Medicine Of Modern Age - By Ann Brown

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  • Microscope

    Microscope
    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Blood Transfusions

    Blood Transfusions
    Sir Christopher Wren experiments with canine blood transfusions

  • Blood Cells

    Blood Cells
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Small Pox

    Small Pox
    Giacomo Pylarini gives the first smallpox inoculations

  • General Anesthetic

    General Anesthetic
    Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic

  • Syringe

    Syringe
    Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

  • Germs

    Germs
    Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

  • Chlorea

    Chlorea
    First vaccine developed for cholera

  • Contact Lense

    Contact Lense
    First contact lenses developed

  • Typhoid Fever

    Typhoid Fever
    First vaccine developed for typhoid fever

  • Asprin

    Asprin
    Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

  • Blood Types

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

  • Vitamin D

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

  • Insulin

    Insulin
    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Diabetes

    Diabetes
    Insulin first used to treat diabetes

  • Dipheria

    Dipheria
    First vaccine developed for diphtheria.

  • Whooping Cough

    Whooping Cough
    First vaccine developed for whooping cough

  • Yellow Fever

    Yellow Fever
    First vaccine developed for yellow fever

  • Influenza

    Influenza
    First vaccine developed for influenza

  • First Kidney Transplant

    First Kidney Transplant
    Gertrude Elion patented a leukemia-fighting drug
    Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant

  • Measles

    Measles
    First vaccine developed for measles.

  • Mumps

    Mumps
    First vaccine developed for mumps

  • Test Tube Baby

    Test Tube Baby
    First test-tube baby is born

  • Meningitis

    Meningitis
    First vaccine developed for meningitis.

  • HIV & AIDS

    HIV & AIDS
    HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

  • Hepititus A

    Hepititus A
    First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.

  • Cancer

    Cancer
    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer

  • Rabies

    Rabies
    First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur