Lists of British Inventions - Medicine

Medicine

  • First correct description of circulation of the blood - William Harvey
  • Smallpox vaccine - Edward Jenner with his discovery is said to have "saved more lives (...) than were lost in all the wars of mankind since the beginning of recorded history."
  • Surgical forceps - Stephen Hales
  • Antisepsis in surgery - Joseph Lister
  • Artificial intraocular lens transplant surgery for cataract patients - Harold Ridley
  • Clinical thermometer - Thomas Clifford Allbutt.
  • isolation of fibrinogen ("coagulable lymph"), investigation of the structure of the lymphatic system and description of red blood cells by the surgeon William Hewson (surgeon)
  • Colour blindness first described by John Dalton in Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours
  • Credited with discovering how to culture embryonic stem cells in 1981 - Martin Evans
  • Carried out ground breaking research on the use of penicillin in the treatment of venereal disease with the Scottish scientist Sir Alexander Fleming in London - Jack Suchet
  • First blood pressure measurement and first cardiac catheterisation-Stephen Hales
  • Pioneer of anaesthesia and father of epidemiology for locating the source of cholera - John Snow (physician)
  • pioneered the use of sodium cromoglycate as a remedy for asthma - Roger Altounyan
  • The first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen and one of the founders of orthopedy - Percivall Pott
  • Performed the first successful blood transfusion - James Blundell
  • Discovered the active ingredient of Aspirin - Edward Stone
  • Discovery of Protein crystallography - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  • The world’s first successful stem cell transplant and the first British Bone Marrow Transplant using bone marrow from a matching sibling - John Raymond Hobbs
  • First typhoid vaccine - Almroth Wright
  • Pioneer of the treatment of epilepsy - Edward Henry Sieveking
  • discovery of Nitrous oxide (entonox/"laughing gas") and its anaesthetic properties - Humphry Davy
  • Ophthalmoscope - conceived by Charles Babbage in 1847
  • Computed Tomography (CT scanner) - Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
  • Gray's Anatomy widely regarded as the first complete human anatomy textbook - Henry Gray
  • Discovered Parkinson's disease - James Parkinson
  • General anaesthetic - Pionered by Scotsman James Young Simpson and Englishman John Snow
  • Contributed to the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - Sir Peter Mansfield
  • The development of in vitro fertilization - Patrick Christopher Steptoe and Robert Geoffrey Edwards
  • First baby genetically selected to be free of a breast cancer - University College London
  • Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
  • Pioneer of modern nursing - Florence Nightingale
  • Acetylcholine - Henry Hallett Dale
  • EKG (underlying principles) - various
  • Vitamins and Tryptophan - Frederick Gowland Hopkins
  • diagnostic ultrasound - John J. Wild (although his research was conducted in US)
  • Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932) (born India, educated in England; mother English and father Scottish)
  • Earliest pharmacopoeia in English
  • The hip replacement operation, in which a stainless steel stem and 22mm head fit into a polymer socket and both parts are fixed into position by PMMA cement - pioneered by John Charnley
  • Description of Hay Fever - John Bostock (physician) in 1819

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