Landmark medical inventions and discoveries, such as vaccines, anesthesia, and the X-ray, matched with their discoverer and approximate date, one breakthrough per card.
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- Who discovered penicillin and in what year?
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Alexander Fleming, 1928- Who isolated insulin and when?
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Frederick Banting and Charles Best, 1921- Who discovered X-rays and in what year?
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Wilhelm Röntgen, 1895- Who developed the first successful smallpox vaccine and when?
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Edward Jenner, 1796- Who performed the first public demonstration of ether anesthesia and when?
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William T.G. Morton, 1846- Who developed germ theory and in what era?
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Louis Pasteur, 1860s- Who pioneered antiseptic surgery and when?
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Joseph Lister, 1865- Who invented the stethoscope and when?
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Rene Laennec, 1816- Who developed the inactivated polio vaccine and when?
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Jonas Salk, 1952- Who determined the structure of DNA and when?
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James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin, 1953- Who invented MRI imaging and in what year?
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Paul Lauterbur, 1973- Who invented the CT scanner and when?
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Godfrey Hounsfield, 1971- Who classified blood types and when?
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Karl Landsteiner, 1900- Who invented the electrocardiogram (ECG) and when?
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Willem Einthoven, 1903- Who first isolated morphine and when?
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Friedrich Serturner, 1803
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