Pioneers in medicine 3

Thomas Albert

• English physical and inventor

  • in 1866, he involved the modern clinical thermometer which replaced the foot long alternator that had needed up to 20 minutes to measure a temperature.years later he developed the orthiho scope. used to inspect the interior of the eye.

Philip Drinker

• a pioneer in the Fields of bioengineering and industrial safety

  • his famous invention, The “iron lung” saved many lives, especially that afflicted with polio who could not breathe.

Archibald Mclndoe

• new Zealand plastic surgeon, devised pioneering techniques for the treatment of burn victims

  • he pioneered salt water skin baths of grafted skin to help heal 3rd degree burn patients

Fredric serturner

• french chemist & pharmacist,used the opium poppy to develop the pain supersizing during morphine

Wilson great-batch

• american electrical engineer developed the first implantable cardiac pacemaker, a device that was hailed as major medical breakthrough was created with saving millions of lives .

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

• German physicist who was a recipient of the first Nobel prize for the physics, in 1901 for his discovery of the x-rays

William T.G. Morton

• american dental surgeon who in 1846 gave the first successful public demonstration in front of his peers of ether anesthesia during surgery.

  • he is credited with gaining the medical worlds acceptance of surgical anesthesia

George Huntington

• american physician from long island, new York, who contributed the clinical description of the disease the bears his name- Huntington disease.

Reginald fitz

• american doctor who studied medicine all over Europe after his graduation from Harvard medical school in 1868 \

  • best known for his 1886 coinage of the term appendicitis, and his discovery that the appendix could be removed at an early strange to cured disease.

Helen Brooke tassing

• american doctor, considered the founder of modern pediatric cardiology

  • developed a shunting procedure the prolongs the survival of babies born with condition related to blue baby syndrome