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Medical Discoveries

  • Small pox vaccine

    Dr. Edward Jenner create the first small pox vaccine.
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    Small pox vaccine

    Dr. Edward Jenner create the first small pox vaccine
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    First female surgeon

    Mary Edwards Walker was the first female surgeon in the united states. In 1855, she graduated and began her profession. Dr. Blackwell graduated before her but isn't listed as the first.
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    First Nursing program

    In 1873, the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing, of New York City, was founded by Florence Nightingale.
  • First female surgeon

    Mary Edwards Walker was the first female surgeon in the united states. In 1855, she graduated and began her profession. Dr. Blackwell graduated before her but isn't listed as the first.
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    X-ray discovered

    In 1895 William roentgen discovered x-rays and experimented on his own wife. The x-ray has changed the entire medical field since.
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    Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin

    Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin in laboratory in London in a harvest of bateria. Penicillin opened the door to new methods of fighting bacterial infections.
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    Jonas Stalk and Influenza

    Jonas Salk developed the first vaccine against flu viruses in 1938. The vaccine was successful and been used/modified since then.
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    Birth control created

    Margaret Sanger created the first oral conception. Enovid, was approved by the US FDA as a safe contraception in 1960.
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    First successful Lung transplant

    Dr. James Hardy performed the first human lung transplant in 1963 in Jackson Mississippi on a sick patient. Prior to the surgery Dr. Hardy has practiced on 400 dogs.
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    World's first heart to heart transplant

    On December 3, 1697 Dr. Christiaan Banard conducted the world's first heart to heart transplant
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    Raymond Vahan Damadian

    Raymond Vahan Damadian invented the first MRI scanning machine in 1977. He used the scanning machine to diagnose cancer in 1977.