Modern Medicine

• Blood pressure monitors

  • First used in 1880's
  • It was used to diagnose high and low blood pressure
• X-Rays

  • First used in 1890's
  • Used to see inside the body without surgery
• Endoscopes

  • First used in 1900's
  • A camera on the end of a thin tube, used for looking in the body
• CT Scans

  • First used in 1970's
  • A more advanced type of X-ray used for finding tumors and growths
• Magic bullets

  • Chemical medicines that attacked disease while leaving the rest of the body unharmed
  • Called 'bullets' because they targeted specific germs in the body
  • Paul Ehrlich was a member of Robert Koch's research team
  • His first magic bullet cured syphilis
  • Gerhard Domagk produced Prontosil to cure blood poisoning (tested it on his own daughter)