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."
- Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932). Born in India to English mother. Schooling and Medical education in England.
- 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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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one anothers company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)