| SNo |
Discovery / Invention |
Year |
Discoverer / Inventor |
Country |
| 1 |
Adrenaline |
1894 |
Schafer and Oliver |
Britain |
| 2 |
Anesthesia, Local |
1885 |
Koller |
Austria |
| 3 |
Anesthesia, Spinal |
1898 |
Bier |
Germany |
| 4 |
Anti-toxins (Science of Immunity) |
1890 |
Behring and Kitasato |
Germany, Japan |
| 5 |
Aspirin |
1889 |
Dreser |
Germany |
| 6 |
Ayurveda |
2000-1000 BC |
|
India |
| 7 |
Bacteria |
1683 |
Leeuwenhock |
Netherlands |
| 8 |
Bacteriology |
1872 |
Ferdinand Cohn |
Germany |
| 9 |
Biochemistry |
1648 |
Jan Baptista Van Helmont |
Belgium |
| 10 |
Blood Plasma storage (Blood bank) |
1940 |
Drew |
U.S.A |
| 11 |
Blood Transfusion |
1625 |
Jean-Baptiste Denys |
France |
| 12 |
Cardiac Pacemaker |
1932 |
A.S Hyman |
U.S.A |
| 13 |
CAT Scanner |
1968 |
Godfrey Hounsfield |
Britain |
| 14 |
Chemotherapy |
1493-1541 |
Paracelsus |
Switzerland |
| 15 |
Chloroform as anaesthetic |
1847 |
James Simpson |
Britain |
| 16 |
Chloromycetin |
1947 |
Burkholder |
U.S.A |
| 17 |
Cholera T.B germs |
1877 |
Robert Koch |
Germany |
| 18 |
Circulation of blood |
1628 |
William Harvey |
Britain |
| 19 |
Cryo-Surgery |
1953 |
Henry Swan |
U.S.A |
| 20 |
Diphtheria germs |
1883-84 |
Klebs and Loffler |
Germany |
| 21 |
Electro-Cardiograph |
1903 |
Willem Einthoven |
Netherlands |
| 22 |
Electro-encephalogram |
1929 |
Hand Berger |
Germany |
| 23 |
Embryology |
1792-1896 |
Kari Ernest Van Baer |
Estonia |
| 24 |
Endocrinology |
1902 |
Bayliss and Starling |
Britain |
| 25 |
First Test Tube Baby |
1978 |
Steptoe and Edwards |
Britain |
| 26 |
Gene Therapy on humans |
1980 |
Martin Clive |
U.S.A |
| 27 |
Genes associated with cancer |
1982 |
Robert Weinberg and others |
U.S.A |
| 28 |
Heart Transplant Surgery |
1967 |
Christian Barnard |
S. Africa |
| 29 |
Histology |
1771-1802 |
Marie Bichat |
France |
| 30 |
Hypodermic syringe |
1853 |
Alexander wood |
Britain |
| 31 |
Kidney Machine |
1944 |
Kolf |
Netherlands |
| 32 |
Leprosy Bacillus |
1873 |
Hansen |
Norway |
| 33 |
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) |
1943 |
Hoffman |
Switzerland |
| 34 |
Malaria Germs |
1880 |
Laveran |
France |
| 35 |
Morphine |
1805 |
Friderich Sertumer |
Germany |
| 36 |
Neurology |
1758-1828 |
Franz Joseph Gall |
Germany |
| 37 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging |
1971 |
Raymond Damadian |
U.S.A |
| 38 |
Open Heart Surgery |
1953 |
Walton Lillehel |
U.S.A |
| 39 |
Oral Contraceptive Pills |
1955 |
Gregory Pincus, Rock |
U.S.A |
| 40 |
Penicillin |
1928 |
Alexander Fleming |
Britain |
| 41 |
Physiology |
1757-66 |
Albrecht Von Haller |
Switzerland |
| 42 |
Positron emission Tomography |
1978 |
Louis Sokoloff |
U.S.A |
| 43 |
Rabies Vaccine |
1860 |
Louis Pasteur |
France |
| 44 |
Recombinant-DNA technology |
1972-73 |
Paul Berg, H.W. Boyer,S Cohen |
U.S.A |
| 45 |
Reserpine |
1949 |
Jal Vakil |
India |
| 46 |
Rh-factor |
1940 |
Karl Landsteiner |
U.S.A |
| 47 |
Serology |
1884-1915 |
Paul Ehrlich |
Germany |
| 48 |
Sex hormones |
1910 |
Eugen Steinach |
Australia |
| 49 |
Small Pox eradicated |
1980 |
W.H.O Declaration |
UN |
| 50 |
Stethoscope |
1819 |
Rene Laennec |
France |
| 51 |
Streptomycin |
1944 |
Selman Waksmann |
U.S.A |
| 52 |
Synthetic Antigens |
1917 |
Landsteiner |
U.S.A |
| 53 |
Terramycin |
1950 |
Finlay and Others |
U.S.A |
| 54 |
Thyroxin |
1919 |
Edward Calvin-Kendall |
U.S.A |
| 55 |
Typhus Vaccine |
1909 |
J. Nicolle |
France |
| 56 |
Vaccination |
1796 |
Edward Jenner |
Britain |
| 57 |
Vaccine, Measles |
1963 |
Enders |
U.S.A |
| 58 |
Vaccine, Meningitis |
1987 |
Gardon, et al. Connaught Lab |
U.S.A |
| 59 |
Vaccine, Polio |
1954 |
Jonas Salk |
U.S.A |
| 60 |
Vaccine, Polio-orai |
1960 |
Albert Sabin |
U.S.A |
| 61 |
Vaccine, Rabies |
1885 |
Louis Pasteur |
France |
| 62 |
Vaccine, Smallpox |
1776 |
Jenner |
Britain |
| 63 |
Virology |
1892 |
Ivanovski and Bajernick |
USSR, Netherlands |
| 64 |
Vitamin A |
1913 |
Mc Collum and M. Davis |
U.S.A |
| 65 |
Vitamin B1 |
1936 |
Minot and Murphy |
U.S.A |
| 66 |
Vitamin C |
1919 |
Froelich Holst |
Norway |
| 67 |
Vitamin D |
1925 |
Mc Collum |
U.S.A |
| 68 |
Vitamin K |
1938 |
Doisy Dam |
U.S.A |
| 69 |
Western Scientific Therapy |
460-370 BC |
Hippocrates |
Greece |
| 70 |
Yoga |
200-100 BC |
Patanjali |
India |
|
|
