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10 Medical Milestone in the past 400 years

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    In the 1600's Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch scientist, contributed a lot to microbiology because of his early studies bacteria. Because of what he did he's known as the father of microbiology.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    In the 1700's Eward Jenner discovered the vaccine for smallpox. The worlds first vaccine, which was a major milestone and saved a lot of lives.back then smallpox was deadly, but now because of the vaccine many lives have been saved.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    In the 1800's Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, promoted the use of antiseptic in surgery. Antiseptics killed bacteria, lessening the risk of people dying or getting sick because of surgery.
  • William T.G. Morton

    William T.G. Morton
    In the 1800's William T.G. Morton was a dentist that discovered anesthetic. He publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as anesthetic. This discorvery signifagently lessened the pain of surgery.
  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
    In the 1890's Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German mechanical engineer and physicist, discovered X-rays.This is a milestone in midecince, cause now there was a way to look inside a human bocy without having to cut it open. or examine on dead bodys.
  • Dmitri Ivanovsky

    Dmitri Ivanovsky
    In the 1900's Dmitri Ivanovsky, a Russian botanist, was one of the founders of virology. He studies on Tobacco mosaic virus, helped him discover how viruses work.
  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    In the 1900's Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian biologist and physician and immunologist, discovered the main blood types. This is a huge milestone, before the discovery many were dying because they were getting the wrong blood type and no one at the time knew why.
  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming
    In the 1920's Alexander Fleming, a Scottish physician, biologist, pharmacologist and botanist, discovered penicillin. Penicillin or Antibiotics, helped kill and get rid of most bacteria based diease/sickness.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    In the 1900's Jonas Salk, an American medical researcher and virologist, he discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. This was a milestone because it would help cure and prevent people from getting polio, which can be fatal in some cases.
  • Wilson Greatbatch

    Wilson Greatbatch
    In the 1900's Wilson Greatbatch, an American engineer and pioneering inventor, invented the pacemaker. Which helps the regulate the heart when its beating to slow.