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L1 D. Inventions And Innovations In The Field Of Medical Technology Flashcards

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Father of Microbiology
He improved the microscope

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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
1660

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Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox

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Edward Jenner 1796

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Identified organs by their types of tissues
Impact of contribution, Histology

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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat 1880

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

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Agostino Bassi 1835

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Successfully produced immunity to rabies

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Louis Pasteur 1857

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Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants

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Gregor Mendel 1866

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He demonstrated that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms

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Joseph Lister 1870

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Presented the first pictures of bacilli anthrax and later tubercle bacilli

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Robert Koch 1877

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Described phagocytosis in blood and their role in fighting infection

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1886 Elie Metchnikoff

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Introduction steam sterilization in surgery

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Ernst von Bergmann 1886

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

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Karl Landsteiner 1902

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Developed immunologic test for syphilis

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August von Wasserman 1906

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Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae

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Howard Ricketts 1906

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Worked out the structure of hemoglobin

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Hans Ficher 1929

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15
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Developed poliomyelitis vaccine

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Jonas Salk 1954

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Introduced the westgard rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory

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James Westgard 1973

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Introduced the hepatitis B vaccine

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg 1980

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Developed the polymerase chain reaction

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Kary Mulis 1985

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Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection IVF

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Andre van Steirteghem 1992

20
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Derived the first human Stem Cell line

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James Thomson 1998

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