medical breakthroughs
1800 – Humphrey Davy announces the anesthetic properties of
nitrous oxide
1813-1883 James Marion Sims Vesico-vaganial surgery Father of surgical genecology
1816 – Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
1827-1912 Joseph Lister Anti-septic surgery.
1818 – James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion
1842 – Crawford Long performs the first surgical operation using anesthesia with ether
1846 – First painless surgery with general anesthetic
1847 – Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent puerperal fever
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree
1867 – Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, based partly on Pasteur's work
1870 – Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease
1878 – Ellis Reynolds Shipp graduates from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and begins practice in Utah
1879 – First vaccine for cholera
1881 – Louis Pasteur develops an anthrax vaccine
1882 – Louis Pasteur develops a rabies vaccine
1890 – Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines
1895 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers medical use of X-rays in medical imaging
1813-1883 James Marion Sims Vesico-vaganial surgery Father of surgical genecology
1816 – Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
1827-1912 Joseph Lister Anti-septic surgery.
1818 – James Blundell performs the first successful human blood transfusion
1842 – Crawford Long performs the first surgical operation using anesthesia with ether
1846 – First painless surgery with general anesthetic
1847 – Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent puerperal fever
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree
1867 – Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, based partly on Pasteur's work
1870 – Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease
1878 – Ellis Reynolds Shipp graduates from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and begins practice in Utah
1879 – First vaccine for cholera
1881 – Louis Pasteur develops an anthrax vaccine
1882 – Louis Pasteur develops a rabies vaccine
1890 – Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines
1895 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers medical use of X-rays in medical imaging