Turn of the 20th century1879 - First laboratory vaccine is accidentally discovered by Louis Pasteur, the Cholera bacteria and chickens.
1890 - Emil Von Behring, a German Bacteriologist, discovered antitoxins for Diptheria and Tetanus, providing a pathway into the world of immunizing against disease. 1895 - First X Ray accidentally discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 1901 - Classification of blood into A, B or O categories invented by Karl Lansteiner, later earning a Nobel Prize. 1906 - Sir Fredrick Gowland Hopkins proposed that vitamins are something essential to one's health, and lack thereof causes disease such as Scurvy. 1907 - First successful human blood transfusion, using Lansteiner's blood type classification. 1913 - Dr. Paul Dudley White developed the use of the electrocardiograph, which uses electricity to find heart abnormalities. 1927 - A Negative Pressure Ventilator, the "Iron Lung", is invented by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, and used as a respirator for paralyzed Polio patients. |
turn of the 21st century1980 - First commercially available MRI machines for sale, comparable to an X Ray in its ability to scan and produce an image of the body's interior.
1991 - Intracytoplasmic sperm injection developed in use with in vitro fertilization; conception of a fetus outside of the body. First 'petri dish' fetus conceived the following year. 1996 - Dolly the sheep is the first adult mammal to ever be cloned. 1998 - First vaccine for Lyme Disease. 1998 - Stem Cell Therapy is invented, and can be used to introduce new tissue into damaged tissue and treat disease or injury. 2000 - Draft of Human Genome is completed. 2001 - Telesurgery is invented; using robotic arms to assist in surgery. 2002 - Discovery of how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells, which can assist in forced genes or mutations. 2006 - First HPV vaccine approved. |
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