Important Medical Inventions and their Inventors

MEDICAL INVENTIONS
Inventor	Inventions
Jean-Baptostc Denys	Blood Transfusion (1625)
William Harvey	Blood Circulation (1628)
Rene Laennec	Stethoscope (1819)
Samuel Guthrie	Chloroform (1831)
Alexander Wood	Hypodermic Syringe (1853)
Joseph Lister	Antiseptics (1867)
Sir Thomas Alllbutt	Clinical Thermometer (1867)
Robert Koch	Cholera and TB germs (1883)
Klebs N Loffler	Diphtheria Germs (1884)
Scipione Riva-Rocci	Sphygmomanometer (1896)
Dr Felix Hoffman	Aspirin (1899)
K Landsteiner	Blood Group (1902)
William Einstoven	Electrocardiogram (ECG) (1903)
Frederick Banting/Charles Best	Isolated Insulin (1921)
Alexander Fleming	Penicillin; it paved the way for antibiotics (1928)
Willem Kolff	Kidney Dialysis Machine (1944)
Ian Donald	Ultrasound (1950)
Carl Djerassi	Contraceptive Pill (1951)
John P. Merril	Organ Transplant (1953)
Wilson Greatbatch	Heart Pacemaker (1960)
Christian Barnard	Heart Transplant (1967)
Godfrey Hounsfield	CAT Scanner (1973)
Vaccines
Edward Jenner	Vaccine for Small Pox (1796)
Louis Pasteur	Vaccine for Cholera (1880)/Rabbies (1885)
Emil Adolf Von Behring &	Vaccine for Diphtheria and Tetanus
Shibasaburo Kitasato
Charles Nicolle	Vaccine for Typhus (1909)
Albert Calmette & Camille Guerin	Vaccine forTB (1922)
John F Enders & Thomas Peeble	Vaccine for Measles (1953)
Albert Buce Sabin	Oral Polio Vaccine (1955)
Jonas Salk	Vaccine for Polio (1955)