I remember receiving the first polio vaccines. The artificial heart and organ transplants first took place during my lifetime.
Throughout history there was the invention of the microscope by van Leeuwenhoek. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabies and invented the pasteurization process. Joseph Lister is credited with the antiseptic method. Edward Jenner and Robert Koch and the breakthrough in vaccines for smallpox and cholera and the work on TB. Walter Reed's work to wipe out malaria when the Panama Canal was being built. Banting and Grant in Canada discovering insulin, and of course Fleming's discovery of penicillin. We can't forget the breakthroughs that have occurred in the treatment of cancer. These are just a drop in the bucket, and what is yet to come will be astounding.
Throughout history there was the invention of the microscope by van Leeuwenhoek. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabies and invented the pasteurization process. Joseph Lister is credited with the antiseptic method. Edward Jenner and Robert Koch and the breakthrough in vaccines for smallpox and cholera and the work on TB. Walter Reed's work to wipe out malaria when the Panama Canal was being built. Banting and Grant in Canada discovering insulin, and of course Fleming's discovery of penicillin. We can't forget the breakthroughs that have occurred in the treatment of cancer. These are just a drop in the bucket, and what is yet to come will be astounding.
