Medicines 10880336

Medicine of the modern age by Liam Gray.

By L3m0_Sn1P3s

  • Blood groups discovery.

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

  • the electrocardiograph.

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

  • vitamin D.

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

  • band-aid

    band-aid
    Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid.

  • diabetes.

    diabetes.
    Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Whooping coughing.

    Whooping coughing.
    First vaccine developed for whooping cough.

  • First vaccine for tuberculosis and tetanus.

    First vaccine for tuberculosis and tetanus.
    First vaccine developed for tuberculosis and the First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

  • penicillin.

    penicillin.
    Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • yellow fever.

    yellow fever.
    First vaccine developed for yellow fever.

  • Ultrasound.

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

  • antibiotic streptomycin.

    antibiotic streptomycin.
    Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.

  • influenza

    influenza
    First vaccine developed for influenza.

  • cardiac pacemaker.

    cardiac pacemaker.
    John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker

  • measles.

    measles.
    First vaccine developed for measles.

  • Mumps.

    Mumps.
    First vaccine developed for mumps.

  • rubella.

    rubella.
    First vaccine developed for rubella

  • chicken pox.

    chicken pox.
    First vaccine developed for chicken pox

  • pneumonia.

    pneumonia.
    First vaccine developed for pneumonia.

  • test-tube baby

    test-tube baby
    First test-tube baby is born.

  • meningitis.

    meningitis.
    First vaccine developed for meningitis.

  • smallpox.

    smallpox.
    Smallpox is eradicated.

  • hepatitis B.

    hepatitis B.
    First vaccine developed for hepatitis B

  • hepatitis A.

    hepatitis A.
    First vaccine developed for hepatitis A.

  • cancer.

    cancer.
    First vaccine to target a cause of cancer.