Milestones in medicine ********************************** A.E.Fick - Invented contact lenses (1887) Alexander fleming - Discovered penicillin (1929) Almorth wright – Typhoid vaccine (1862-1947) Anton Ven Leuwenhock – Discovered bacteria and other microbes (1632-1723, Dutch scientist) Christian Bernard – First human heart transplant (1963, South Africa) Denton A Cooley – Implantation of a Dacron and Silastic Heart (1969, Texas) Edward Jenner – Small pox vaccine (1796, U K) Florence Nightingale – Originator of nursing (1854, U K) Galileo – Thermometer (1593, Italy) Hipocrates – Father of medicine (377-460 B.C, Greece) Humphry Davy – First anaesthetic, the laughing gas (1799, U K) Ivan Pavlov – First laboratory experiments on conditional reflexes. James D Hardy – First lung transplant (1963, university of Mississipi) James Lind – Cure for scurvy (1716-94, UK) Jones Salk – Polio vaccine (1954, USA) Joseph Lister – First surgeon to use antiseptics (1865, London) Louise Pasteur – Pasteurization (French chemist) Louise joy Brown – First test-tube baby born on 25 July, 1978(UK) Philip Drinker – Invented Iron-lung machine (1929, USA) Ronald Ross – Cause of malaria (1902, UK) Shen Nung – Acupuncture (2700 BC. China) Thomas E Starzl – First liver transplant (1963, University of Denver) William Harvey – Theory of blood circulation (1628, UK) Wilhelm Roentgen – Discovered x-rays (1895, Germany) Zacharias Janssen – Invented Microscope (1590, Dutch optician) Alfred binet - Devised Binet - Simon test to measure intelligence. Rene theophile Hyacinthe Laennec – Invented stethoscope (1816, France) *************************************************************** #sivachand
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