Medical History Timeline 1921 - 1930 |
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Medical Discovery / Inventions |
medical articles / thesis
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Famous Births/Deaths |
Medical Equipments |
Medical Events |
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| 1921 |
Earle Dickson invented this protective attachable dressing
for cuts & scrapes.(Band-Aid)
Edward Mellanby discovers vitamin D and shows that its absence causes rickets. |
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| 1922 |
Banting, Macleod, Best and Collip invented the process
for insulin in 1922 which became the treatment for diabetes.
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Birth of Christiaan Barnard (performed first heart transplant
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| 1923 |
First vaccine for diphtheria. |
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| 1924 |
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Willem Einthoven won the Nobel prize for inventing the
electrocardiograph. |
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| 1925 |
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| 1926 |
First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough). |
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| 1927 |
First vaccine for tuberculosis.
First vaccine for tetanus. |
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| 1928 |
Alexander Fleming invented Penicillin |
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| 1929 |
Hans Berger discovers human electroencephalography |
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins receives the 1929 Nobel Prize
for Physiology or Medicine. |
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| 1930 |
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Landsteiner receives the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology
or Medicine |
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medical articles / thesis
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