MSS Timeline

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Timeline

  • Dutch lens grinder Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which allow blood to flow only toward the heart

  • Edward Jenner develops a smallpox vaccination method

  • Humphry Davy discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

  • René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.

  • Asprin is invented in Germany.

  • Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin – important for the treatment of diabetes

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • First vaccine for influenza.

  • Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine (available in 1955)

  • Hip Replacement - John Charnley

  • James Hardy performs the first human lung transplant

  • Thomas Starzl performs the first human liver transplant

  • First commercial ultrasound

  • Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant

  • Laser Eye Surgery (LASIK) - Mani Lal Bhaumik

  • First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.

  • Dr. William DeVries implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into patient Barney Clark. Clark lives 112 days.

  • HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.Read more: Medical Advances Timeline — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0932661.html#ixzz25cislilH

  • Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells