Topic learning from the past

By beckybird

  • Nitrous oxide

    Nitrous oxide (Laughing gas) 1844 by Horace Wells A Dentist, used for extracting teeth.

  • Cholera

    First vaccine developed for cholera

  • Anthrax

    1881 First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur

  • Rabies

    1882 First vaccine for developed for rabies by Louis Pasteur

  • Antibiotic

    Waksman (1888–1973) discovered a fungus that produced a powerful antibiotic substance.

  • Teranus/Diptheria

    1890 Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines

  • Bubonic plague

    1897 First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague

  • Aspirin

    1899 Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

  • Diabetes

    1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes.

  • Whooping cough

    1926 First vaccine developed for whooping cough

  • Tuberculosis

    1927First vaccine developed for tuberculosis

  • Penicillin

    1928 Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

  • Yellow fever

    1935

    First vaccine developed for yellow fever

  • Typhus

    1937 First vaccine developed for typhus

  • chemo

    chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the first use of nitrogen mustards and folic acid antagonist drugs.

  • Streptomycin

    Streptomycin 1943 used for TB

  • Influenza

    1945 First vaccine developed for influenza

  • Polio Vaccine

    Polio vaccine first 1952 by Jonas Salk

  • Measles

    1964 First vaccine developed for measles.

  • Mumps

    1967 First vaccine developed for mumps

  • Rubella

    1970 First vaccine developed for rubella

  • Chicken pox

    1974 First vaccine developed for chicken pox

  • Smallpox

    smallpox vaccine 1984 by edward jennar