Medical Innovations
- Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870)
- The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817–1884)
- Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795–1860)
- Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)
- Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931)
- Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926)
- Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others
- Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955)
- Ambulight PDT: light-emitting sticking plaster used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating non-melanoma skin cancer. Developed by Ambicare Dundee's Ninewells Hospital and St Andrews University. (2010)
- Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s
- Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)
- Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
- Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)
- EKG : Alexander Muirhead (1911)
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