Interesting Medical Discoveries

Florence Nightingale's efforts to formalize nursing education led her to establish the first scientifically based nursing school

W. C. Roentgen discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with a cathode radiation.

Frederick Banting experimented with a dog by removing his pancreas & then in another dog, he surgically ligated the pancreas, stopping the flow of nourishment, so that the pancreas degenerated.

Christian Barnard first experimented with dogs, but then led a medical team into performing the first ever, heart transplant.

Godfrey Hounsfield took several hours to acquire the raw data for a single scan & took days to reconstruct a single image from this raw data.