Scientific History of Medicine

By JGoins2017

  • Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of disease

  • First contact lenses developed

  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen introduced the use of X rays

  • Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

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

  • Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph

  • Earle Dickson Invented the Band-Aid

  • Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • First vaccine developed for yellow fever

  • Bernard Fantus pioneers the use the first blood bank in Chicago

  • John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker

  • Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant

  • First human heart transplant was done by Dr. Christiaan Barnard

  • Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans

  • First vaccine developed for pneumonia

  • First vaccine developed for hepatitis A

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer