Yr1

• 1628- William Harvey describes the circulation of blood
• 1816 - Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope
• 1842 - Crawford Lang develops ether anesthesia
• 1869 - Gregor Mendel develops the laws of heredity
• 1893 - Aspirin is developed
• 1910- Marie Curie isolates radium, later used to treat cancer
• 1922- Frederick Banting treats diabetes with insulin
• 1928- Sir Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
• 1944 - First kidney dialysis machine
• 1953 - First heart-lung machine is used for successful open-heart surgery
• 1953- First successful kidney transplant performed
• 1963- First human liver transplantation
• 1964- First human lung transplantation
• 1967- Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplantation
• 1967- First hospice (hospice care in the home/ in a facility) founded in England
• 1969- Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart
• 1972 - CT scan introduced
• 1975- Lyme disease reported for the first time
• 1978 - First test tube baby born in England
• 1981- AIDS is identified as a disease
• 1981- First successful surgery on a fetus
• 1998- Stem cells isolated from fetal tissues
• 2000- Human genome mapping project is completed