Medical History Timeline 1931 - 1940 |
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Famous Births/Deaths |
Medical Equipments |
Medical Events |
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| 1931 |
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Electron Microscope co-invented by Germans, Max Knott
and Ernst Ruska |
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| 1932 |
Researchers discover riboflavin, or vitamin B3. |
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Gerhard Domagk develops a chemotherapeutic cure for streptococcus
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| 1933 |
Manfred Sakel discovers insulin shock therapy |
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| 1934 |
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| 1935 |
First vaccine for yellow fever.
Ladislas J. Meduna discovers metrazol shock therapy
Gerhard Domagk discovers Protonsil, the first sulfa drug, and uses it to treat infections caused by streptococcus.
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Birth of Sir Magdi Yacoub (One of the leading developers
of the techniques of heart and heart-lung transplantation ) |
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| 1936 |
Tabern and Volwiler co-discovered the general anesthetic
Pentothal
Egas Moniz discovers prefrontal lobotomy for treating mental diseases |
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Death of Charles Jean Henri Nicolle (microbiologist who
won Nobel prize for work on typhus ) |
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| 1937 |
First vaccine for typhus. |
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The first heart-lung machine was built by physician John
Heysham Gibbon |
Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank at Cook County
Hospital in Chicago, using a 2% solution of sodium citrate to preserve the
blood. Refrigerated blood lasts ten days.
National Cancer Institute is founded.
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| 1938 |
Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini discover electroconvulsive
therapy |
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National Institute for Infantile Paralysis is founded and
begins 'March of Dimes' campaigns to raise money for research and treatment
of polio. |
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| 1939 |
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Death of Sigmund Freud (founder of psychoanalysis )
Death of Norman Bethune (developer of battlefield surgical techniques ) |
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| 1940 |
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain develop method to produce
usable form of penicillin; a year later, first clinical trials of drug show
it has remarkable ability to cure life threatening infections |
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medical articles / thesis
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Medical Equipments |
Medical Events |
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