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  1. Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51
    …lace="Blean" death_date="Jan 25, 2014" death_place="Carshalton" }} === Richard Cremer 1956 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]: [[Medical]]: [[1900s]] Dr Cremer , with the help of Sister J Ward, discovered that sunlight could cure **jaundice** at the Roc…
  2. Anaesthetic — 2023-10-04 16:27:18
    …th_place="Penzance, Cornwall" death_date="29 May 1829" death_place="Geneva, Switzerland" }} === Humphry Davy 1799 === [[Medical]] Nitrous oxide (N2O) was first synthesised in #%1772#% by chemist Joseph Priestley. The term "laughing gas" was coine…
  3. Cataract Surgery — 2021-10-26 08:58:10
    …Cataract Surgery :: === Harold Ridley 1950 === [[Medical]]:[[1900s]] {{redirect page="Intraocular_Lens"}} …
  4. Hip Replacement — 2021-08-20 11:18:03
    …Hip Replacement :: === Sir John Charnley 1963 === ~-[[Medical ]]:[[1900s]] {{Databox width="360" Image="JohnCharnley.jpg" class="right" Who="Sir John Charnley" birth_date="29 Augu…
  5. Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28
    …7/9/1844" birth_place="Southend" death_date="25/6/1894" death_place="" }} === Charles Romley Alder Wright 1874 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Charles Wright first synthesized Diamorphine in 1874 while working at St. Mary's hospital in [[London]]. {…
  6. MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
    …e="9/9/1933" birth_place="Lambeth, [[London]]" death_date="8/2/2017" death_place="" }} === Peter Mansfield 1973 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] Mansfield and Lauterbur were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for inventing the MRI scanner in 2003. M…
    … published in 1973. His method would speed up the process of producing images from an hour to a fraction of a second. A medical diagnostic application was further progressed by the development of a rapid imaging technique called echo-planar imagin…
    …w Maudsley, complete with bone, bone-marrow, nerves and arteries. The images were presented at a special meeting of the Medical Research Council in 1976. /* https://aberdeenmedlib.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/worlds-first-mri-scanner-now-on-display/ …
  7. Paralympic Games — 2021-08-20 10:59:53
    …sia " death_date=" 18 March 1980 " death_place=" Aylesbury " }} === Sir Ludwig Guttmann 1948 === ~-[[CategorySport]]:[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] Professor Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann, (1899 - 1980) held the first Paralympic event in 1948. He was a Ger…
  8. Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12
    …arrow, England, in 1929, was a top mile-runner while a student at the University of Oxford and at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. In 1951 and 1953, he won British championships in the mile run. Bannister researched the mechanics o…
  9. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
    …1881" birth_place="" death_date="11 Mar 1955" death_place="" }} === Alexander Fleming 1928 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] On the 3 September **1928** Fleming discovered an antibiotic substance and named it Penicillin, from the mo…
  10. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
    …06" birth_place="Kibwoth" death_date="25/4/2001" death_place="Salisbury" width="300" }} === Harold Ridley 1950 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] {{toc}} An innovator in eye surgery and the inventor of the **intraocular lens** (IOL). **Nicholas Harold L…
    …ach. The two men agreed there and then that they would **never seek to profit** from this invention, a mark of //real// medical professionals, //service not self//. == The First Implant == {{Image url="Intraocular-lens.jpg" class="left" title="I…
    …Street until he was 85. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986, and **knighted in 2000**. Among the many medical honours he received were the **Gullstrand Medal** of the Swedish Medical Society, and the **Gonin Medal **from the Inte…
  11. IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
    …e="Batley" death_date="10 April 2013" death_place="England" }}|| == In Vitro Fertilisation == ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] === Steptoe, Edwards and Purdy 1977 === /* event_date="25 July 1978" First baby conceived by IVF is born *…
  12. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
    …Vitamins :: === William Fletcher 1905 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] {{Databox width="260" Image="WilliamFletcher.jpg" Who="William Fletcher" Discovered="Vitamins" birth_date="…
    …e Metropolitan Hospital, and then spent several years in general practice in **Coventry** before entering the **Malayan Medical Service** in 1903. ::c:: == The Missing Nutrients == {{image url="Fletcher-1907-report.jpg" class="right" title="1907…
  13. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
    …DNA :: == DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid == ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] >>{{image url="Dna.jpg" width="300" title="DNA discovery visualization" }}>> DNA is the molecule that conta…
    …eston Favell, Northampton, England. == The Story == Franklin was head hunted in '''1951''' by John Randall, of the Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit at '''King’s college, London''', to work on an x-ray picture of DNA taken b…
  14. CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
    …CT Scan :: === Godfrey Hounsfield 1975 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] {{Databox width="350" Image="Godfrey_Hounsfield.jpg" title="Godfrey Hounsfield" Birth_date="28 August 191…
    …ts were encouraging. He then used it on a cow brain from a butcher shop, eventually Godfrey scanned his own brain. The medical world, and EMI, were now excited at the potential of this new technology. {{Image url="CT-Scanner.jpg" class="left" ti…
  15. Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28
    …Vibrator :: === Joseph Mortimer Granville 1880 === ~-[[CategoryInventions]]:[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] {{Image url="FemaleHysteria.jpg" class="right" title="Female Hysteria" width="300" }} Granville patented a…
  16. Saline Drip — 2021-08-12 20:46:29
    …" width="330" born="1796" birth_place="Edinburgh" death_date="19/10/1833" death_place="" }} === Thomas Latta 1832 === [[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Thomas Aitchison Latta (1796 – 19 October 1833) invented the intravenous saline infusion in 1832. {{TOC}…
  17. Antiseptic — 2021-08-12 20:38:14
    …h_place="West Ham" death_date="10 February 1912" death_place="" }} === Joseph Lister 1867 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] {{toc}} Joseph Lister 5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912 West Ham, [[Essex]], [[England]]. Lister was a Br…
    …. This led to the rise of sterile surgery. On the centenary of his death, in 2012, Lister was considered by most in the medical field as "the father of modern surgery". == Legacy == {{image url="Listerine.jpg" class="right" title="Listerine Antis…
  18. Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
    …Hypodermic Syringe :: === Alexander Wood 1853 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] {{Databox Caption="Hypodermic syringe" image="Alexander_Wood.jpg" Width="350" Who="Alexander Wood" birth_…
  19. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
    …In 1822 he developed rubber tubing that could be cut into '''rubber bands''' and '''life-belt tubes'''. He devised many medical uses for rubber, and promoted the use of rubber rather than leather '''fire hoses'''. {{Image url="Suspender.jpg" cla…
  20. Blood transfusion — 2021-08-10 08:28:02
    …mber 1790" birth_place="Holborn" death_date="15 January 1878" death_place="London" }} === James Blundell 1818 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Dr. James Blundell ( 1791 Holborn, [[London]], [[England]] – 1878) performed the first successful transf…
    …mage url="Blood-Transfusion.jpg" class="left" title="Blood Transfusion" width="200" }} In 1840, at St George's Hospital Medical School in London, Samuel Armstrong Lane, aided by Dr. Blundell, performed the first successful whole blood transfusion …
  21. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
    …Salicylic acid :: === Edward Stone 1753 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1700s]] {{Image url="Aspirin.jpg" class="right" title="Aspirin tablet" width="" }} Edward Stone (1702–1768) isol…
    …y the Greek physician Hippocrates in the 5th century BC. Although this was known as a folk remedy Stone had wakened the medical profession to its potential. …
  22. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
    …Vaccination :: === Edward Jenner 1796 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1700s]] {{Databox caption="Pioneer" Image="EdwardJenner.jpg" width="350" title="Edward Jenner" birth_date="17 May …
  23. Medical — 2021-01-28 15:15:47
    Medical :: [[CategoryInventions]] === Medical === Medicine - Drugs - Surgery - Hygiene ---- {{Category}}…
  24. Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
    …Toothbrush :: === William Addis 1780 === ~-[[Domestic]]:[[Medical]]:[[1700s]] {{Image url="WilliamAddis.jpg" class="right" width="" }} Wiiliam Addis developed the modern toothbrush in *…
  25. Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26
    …Silicone :: === Frederick Kipping 1940 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[Domestic]]:[[Medical]] {{Databox Image="Kipping.jpg" Who="Frederick Kipping" birth_date="16/8/1863" death_date="1/5/1949" width="300" class…
    …s are largely inert compounds with a wide variety of uses. It is nonstick and rubberlike. Frequently used in cookware, medical applications, sealants, lubricants, and insulation. ||{{Image url="DOW995.jpg" title="Sealant" width="180" }}|| {{Imag…
    …h Wales n 1949, just as the value of silicone polymers was being realised. {{Tag ids="silicon silicone polymer sealant medical"}} …
  26. Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21
    …an 1941" birth_place="Stroud" death_date="now" death_place="" }} === Sir Martin Evans 1981 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] {{toc}} Along with **Matthew Kaufman** Martin Evans was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and …
  27. Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00
    …artin Flack" width="260" birth_date="20/3/1882" death_date="16/8/1931" }} ===Arthur Keith & Martin Flack 1907 === ~- [[Medical]]:[[1900s]] **Martin Flack**, British physiologist, discovered the bodys' natural pacemaker that is responsible for th…
    … {{Image url="Heart.gif" class="left" title="Heart beating" width="280" }} On a hot summer day in 1906, Martin Flack, a medical student, was studying microscopic sections of the heart of a mole while Arthur Keith and his wife were bicycling throug…
    …ACK CBE == Flack later became demonstrator of physiology at the London Hospital and later a lecturer. He served on the Medical Research Council and became the director of medical research for the Royal Air Force . He was appointed a Commander of …
  28. Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
    …width="300" Born="1788" birth_place="Culnady" Died="1871" death_place="Dublin" }} === Sir James Murray 1809 === ~-[[Medical]]::[[1800s]] James Murray born in [[Ireland]] created his //Fluid Magnesia// that came to be known as **Milk of Magnes…
  29. Cloning — 2020-08-06 15:26:49
    …1944" birth_place="Hampton Lucy, [[Warwickshire]]" death_date="now" death_place="" }} === Dolly the Sheep 1996 === ~-[[Medical]]::[[CategoryScience]]::[[1900s]] Dolly was the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell. Dolly was …
  30. Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
    …="17/7/1882" birth_place="Dunedin, NZ" death_date="10/9/1960" death_place="London" }} === Harold Gillies - 1917 === ~-[[Medical]]::[[1900s]] Gillies developed the techniques of modern plastic surgery. A New Zealander who studied medicine in Camb…
    …ridge, England later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as a medical minder during the Great War where he experienced pioneering skin grafts on wounded soldiers. {{Image url="PlasticSurg…
  31. Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
    …ge url="obstetrical-forceps" class="right" title="obstetrical forceps" width="400" }} === Peter Chamberlen 1600 === ~-[[Medical]] The forceps to aid birth were invented by Peter the elder Chamberlen (c.1560–1631) around 1600. The Chamberlens …
  32. Aspirin — 2017-07-11 11:56:22
    …Aspirin :: {{redirect page="Salicylic acid"}} [[Medical]]…
  33. Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53
    …Their names appeared on an application by Pfizer to patent (WOWO9849166A1) the manufacturing process of Viagra or its [[Medical]] name, Sildenafil Citrate.…

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