Discovery and Invention In Medical Science

S.No	Discovery / Invention	Year	Discoverer / Inventor	Country
1	Adrenaline	1894	Schafer and Oliver	Britain
2	Anesthesia, Local	1885	Koller	Austria
3	Anesthesia, Spinal	1898	Bier	Germany
4	Anti-toxins (Science of Immunity)	1890	Behring and Kitasato	Germany, Japan
5	Aspirin	1889	Dreser	Germany
6	Ayurveda	2000-1000 BC		India
7	Bacteria	1683	Leeuwenhock	Netherlands
8	Bacteriology	1872	Ferdinand Cohn	Germany
9	Biochemistry	1648	Jan Baptista Van Helmont	Belgium
10	Blood Plasma storage (Blood bank)	1940	Drew	U.S.A
11	Blood Transfusion	1625	Jean-Baptiste Denys	France
12	Cardiac Pacemaker	1932	A.S Hyman	U.S.A
13	CAT Scanner	1968	Godfrey Hounsfield	Britain
14	Chemotherapy	1493-1541	Paracelsus	Switzerland
15	Chloroform as anaesthetic	1847	James Simpson	Britain
16	Chloromycetin	1947	Burkholder	U.S.A
17	Cholera T.B germs	1877	Robert Koch	Germany
18	Circulation of blood	1628	William Harvey	Britain
19	Cryo-Surgery	1953	Henry Swan	U.S.A
20	Diphtheria germs	1883-84	Klebs and Loffler	Germany
21	Electro-Cardiograph	1903	Willem Einthoven	Netherlands
22	Electro-encephalogram	1929	Hand Berger	Germany
23	Embryology	1792-1896	Kari Ernest Van Baer	Estonia
24	Endocrinology	1902	Bayliss and Starling	Britain
25	First Test Tube Baby	1978	Steptoe and Edwards	Britain
26	Gene Therapy on humans	1980	Martin Clive	U.S.A
27	Genes associated with cancer	1982	Robert Weinberg and others	U.S.A
28	Heart Transplant Surgery	1967	Christian Barnard	S. Africa
29	Histology	1771-1802	Marie Bichat	France
30	Hypodermic syringe	1853	Alexander wood	Britain
31	Kidney Machine	1944	Kolf	Netherlands
32	Leprosy Bacillus	1873	Hansen	Norway
33	LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)	1943	Hoffman	Switzerland
34	Malaria Germs	1880	Laveran	France
35	Morphine	1805	Friderich Sertumer	Germany
36	Neurology	1758-1828	Franz Joseph Gall	Germany
37	Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging	1971	Raymond Damadian	U.S.A
38	Open Heart Surgery	1953	Walton Lillehel	U.S.A
39	Oral Contraceptive Pills	1955	Gregory Pincus, Rock	U.S.A
40	Penicillin	1928	Alexander Fleming	Britain
41	Physiology	1757-66	Albrecht Von Haller	Switzerland
42	Positron emission Tomography	1978	Louis Sokoloff	U.S.A
43	Rabies Vaccine	1860	Louis Pasteur	France
44	Recombinant-DNA technology	1972-73	Paul Berg, H.W. Boyer,S Cohen	U.S.A
45	Reserpine	1949	Jal Vakil	India
46	Rh-factor	1940	Karl Landsteiner	U.S.A
47	Serology	1884-1915	Paul Ehrlich	Germany
48	Sex hormones	1910	Eugen Steinach	Australia
49	Small Pox eradicated	1980	W.H.O Declaration	UN
50	Stethoscope	1819	Rene Laennec	France
51	Streptomycin	1944	Selman Waksmann	U.S.A
52	Synthetic Antigens	1917	Landsteiner	U.S.A
53	Terramycin	1950	Finlay and Others	U.S.A
54	Thyroxin	1919	Edward Calvin-Kendall	U.S.A
55	Typhus Vaccine	1909	J. Nicolle	France
56	Vaccination	1796	Edward Jenner	Britain
57	Vaccine, Measles	1963	Enders	U.S.A
58	Vaccine, Meningitis	1987	Gardon, et al. Connaught Lab	U.S.A
59	Vaccine, Polio	1954	Jonas Salk	U.S.A
60	Vaccine, Polio-orai	1960	Albert Sabin	U.S.A
61	Vaccine, Rabies	1885	Louis Pasteur	France
62	Vaccine, Smallpox	1776	Jenner	Britain
63	Virology	1892	Ivanovski and Bajernick	USSR, Netherlands
64	Vitamin A	1913	Mc Collum and M. Davis	U.S.A
65	Vitamin B1	1936	Minot and Murphy	U.S.A
66	Vitamin C	1919	Froelich Holst	Norway
67	Vitamin D	1925	Mc Collum	U.S.A
68	Vitamin K	1938	Doisy Dam	U.S.A
69	Western Scientific Therapy	460-370 BC	Hippocrates	Greece
70	Yoga	200-100 BC	Patanjali	India

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