History of Medicine

Edward Jenner creates the first smallpox vaccine method.

Humphry Davy discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide.

Friedrich Serturner was the first to isolate morphine.

Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope

James Blundell performed the first successful blood transfusion.

William T. G. Morton performed the first painless surgery with general anesthesia.

Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to get a medical degree in the US.

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.

Louis Pasteur developed anthrax vaccine

Wilhelm Rontgen discovered medical use of X-Ray in medical imaging.