Scottish Inventions - Medical Innovations

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)
  • General anaesthetic - Pionered by Scotsman James Young Simpson and Englishman John Snow
  • 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
  • Developing modern asthma therapy based both on bronchodilation (salbutamol) and anti-inflammatory steroids (beclomethasone dipropionate) : Sir David Jack in 1972
  • Glasgow coma scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)
  • EKG : Alexander Muirhead (1911)

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