Inventions and Innovations in the Field of Medical Technology

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John Hutchinson

Invented the spirometer.

Jules Herisson

Invented the sphygmomanometer

Rene Laennec (1816)

Invented the first stethoscope

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1840)

The first practical microscope was devised.

Hermann von Helmholz (1850)

Invented the ophthalmoscope

Manuel Garcia (1855)

Devise the laryngoscope

Wilhelm Roentgen (1859)

Invented x-rays

William Einthoven (1903)

invented the electrocardiograph

Elizabeth Kenny (1910)

Devised the Kenny method in treatment of polio (then called infantile paralysis)

Philip Drinker (1927)

Invented the Drinker Respirator

Hermann von Helmholtz (1939)

invented the heart-lung machine

Forsmann (1929), Moniz, Reboul , Rousthoi (930 and 1940), Cournard (1941)

Cardiac catheterization and Angiography

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1660)

Father of microbiology; improvement of the microscope

Edward Jenner (1796)

Protected people from Small Pox by injecting them with cowpox—a much milder disease

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1880)

Identified organs by their types of tissues; Histology

Agostino Bassi (1835)

Produced disease in worms by injection of organic material - the beginning of bacteriology

Louis Pasteur (1857)

Successfully produced immunity to rabies

Gregor Mendel (1866)

He enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants

Joseph Lister (1870)

Demonstrated that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms

Robert Koch (1877)

Presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli

Elie Metchnikoff (1886)

Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection

Ernst von Bergmann (1886)

Introduced steam sterilization in surgery

Karl Landsteiner (1902)

Distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system

August von Wassermann (1906)

Developed immunologic tests for syphilis

Howard Ricketts (1906)

Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae

Jonas Salk (1954)

Developed poliomyelitis vaccine

James Westgard (1973)

Introduced the Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory

Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1980)

Introduced the Hepatitis B vaccine

Kary Mullis (1985)

developed the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

Andre van Steirteghem (1992)

Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF)

James Thomson (1998)

Derived the first human stem cell line