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Advances in Medicine
People their contributions
| Person | Contribution |
|---|---|
| William Harvey | 1628 -- Writes first book on blood circulation through heart |
| James Lind | 1747 -- Discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy |
| Rene Laennec | 1816 -- Invents stethoscope |
| James Blundell | 1818 -- Performs first blood transfusion |
| Crawford W. Long | 1842 -- Uses ether as general anesthetic |
| Joseph Lister | 1867 -- Publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery |
| Louis Pasteur | 1870s -- Establishes germ theory of disease |
| Wilhelm Roentgen | 1895 -- Discovers x-rays |
| Ronald Ross | 1897 -- Demonstrates that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes |
| Felix Hoffman | 1899 -- Develops aspirin |
| Karl Landsteiner | 1901 -- First describes ABO, B, AB, and O blood groups |
| Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins | 1906 -- Suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health |
| Dr. Paul Dudley White | 1913 -- One of the first cardiologists; pioneers use of electrocardiograph |
| Edward Mellanby | 1921 -- Discovers that lack of vitamin D causes rickets 1922 -- First uses insulin to treat diabetes |
| Sir Alexander Fleming | 1928 -- Discovers penicillin |
| Gerhard Domagk | 1932 -- Discovers sulfonamides |
| Dr. John H. Gibbon, Jr. | 1935 -- Successfully uses heart-lung machine (on cat) to continue circulating blood while patient was in surgery |
| Selman A. Waksman | 1943 -- Discovers streptomycin |
| Paul Zoll | 1952 -- Develops first cardiac pacemaker |
| James Watson, Francis Crick | 1953 -- Describe double helical structure of DNA |
| Dr. Joseph E. Murray | 1954 -- Performs first kidney transplant |
| Dr. Luc Montagnier, Dr. Anthony Galo | 1983 -- Discover the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS |
| James Thomson | 2007 -- Scientists discover how to use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells; study was performed in laboratory at University of Wisconsin |
| Laurent Lantieri | 2008 -- Performed the first full face transplant |
| Deborah Persaud | 2013 -- First baby cured of HIV in the United States |
| Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston | 2013 -- Produced first kidney grown in vitro in the United States |
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