INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN MODERN MEDICINE
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| INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN MODERN MEDICINE | |||
| Invention/Discovery | Invertor/ Discoverer | place | Year |
| Adrenaline | Schafer and oliver | Britain | 1894 |
| Anti toxins | Behring and kitasatvo | Germany, Japan | 1890 |
| Artificial heart | William kolff | Netherlands | 1957 |
| Aspirin | Dresser | Germany | 1889 |
| Auromycin | Dugger | USA | 1948 |
| Bacteria | Leeuwenhoek | Holland | 1583 |
| Bacteriology | Ferdinand cohn | Germany | 1872 |
| Biochemistry | Jan baptista and van helmont | Belgium | 1648 |
| Blood circulation | William Harvey | Britain | 1628 |
| Blood transfusion | Jean dengs | France | 1625 |
| Cardiac pacemaker | A.S. Hyman | USA | 1932 |
| Chemotheraphy | Paracelsus | Switzerland | |
| Cancer | Robert weinbery | USA | 1982 |
| Chloroform | James simpson | Britain | 1847 |
| Cholera, T.B. Germs | Robert Koch | Germany | 1877 |
| chloromycetin | Burkholder | USA | 1947 |
| Cortisone | Edward calvin-kendall | USA | 1936 |
| Cryo-surgery | Henry swan | USA | 1953 |
| Contraceptive pills | Pincus | USA | 1955 |
| D.D.T. | Paul muller | Germany | 1939 |
| Diphtheria germs | Klebs and loffler | Germany | 1983-84 |
| Embryologyn | Karl ernest van baer | Estonia | 1792-1896 |
| Endocrinology | Bayliss and starling | Britain | 1902 |
| Electrocardiograph | Einthoven | Holland | 1906 |
| First test tube baby | Steptoe& Edward | Britain | 1978 |
| Gene therapy on humans | Martin clive | USA | 1980 |
| Histology | Marie bichat | France | 1771-1802 |
| Heart transplant surgery | Christian barnard | S.Africa | 1967 |
| Hypodermic syringe | Alexander wood | Britain | 1853 |
| Insulin for diabetes | Banting and best | Canada | 1921 |
| Kidney machine | Kolf | Holland | 1944 |
| Leprosy bacillus | Hansen | Norway | 1873 |
| LSD | Hoffman | Switzerland | 1943 |
| Malaria germs | Laveran | France | 1880 |
| Morphine | Friderich serturner | Germany | 1805 |
| Microbiology | Hargobind Khorana | India | 1970 |
| neurology | Franz joseph gall | Germany | 1828 |
| Nuclear magneticresonance imaging | Raymond damadian | USA | 1971 |
| Oral polio vaccine | Albert sabin | USA | 1954 |
| Oral contraceptive pills | Geroge pincus | USA | 1955 |
| Open heart sugery | Walton lillehel | USA | 1953 |
| Pencillin | Alexander flemming | Britain | 1928 |
| Physiology | Albercht Von Haller | Switzerland | 1757-1766 |
| Positron Emision Tomography | Paul Burg, Boyer, S.Cohen | USA | 1978 |
| Psycho-Analysis | Sigmund Freud | Australia | 1895 |
| Phototheraphy | N.R. Finsen | Denmark | 1903 |
| Rabies vaccine | Louis Pasteur | France | 1860 |
| Recombinant DNA- Technology | Louis Sokoloff | USA | 1978 |
| reserpine | Jal Vakil | India | 1949 |
| Rh- factor | Karl Landsteiner | USA | 1940 |
| Sex hormones | Eugen Steinach | Australia | 1910 |
| Serology | Paul Ehrlich | Germany | 1884-1915 |
| Stethoscope | Rene Laennac | France | 1819 |
| Science of immunity(Anti-toxins) | Behring and Kitasato | Germany, Japan | 1890 |
| Streptomycin | Selman Waomann | USA | 1944 |
| Sulpha drugs | G.Domegk | Germany | 1939 |
| Synthetic antigens | Landsteiner | USA | 1917 |
| terramicine | Finaly and Colleagues | USA | 1950 |
| Thyroxin | Edward calvin kendall | USA | 1919 |
| Typhus vaccine | J. Nicolle | France | 1909 |
| Vaccination | Edward jenner | Britain | 1796 |
| Virology | Ivanoski and Bajernick | Russia, Holland | 1892 |
| Vitamin | Sir. F.G. Hopkins | Britain | 1912 |
| Vitamin A | Maoollum and M. Davis | USA | 1913 |
| Vitamin B | maoollum | USA | 1916 |
| Vitamin C | Froelich holst | Norway | 1912 |
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