DISCOVERY / INVENTION IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

SNoDiscovery / 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

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38 Open Heart Surgery 1953 Walton Lillehel U.S.A

39 Oral Contraceptive Pills 1955 Gregory Pincus, Rock U.S.A

1971 Raymond Damadian 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

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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