💡Invention 👨🏼🔬Inventor 📆Date
🩹Adhesive plaster-covered bandages 👨🏼🔬Paul Beiersdorf 📆1882
💡Anesthetic -William Morton -1846
💡Anthrax vaccine - Louis Pasteur -1881
💡Antiseptic -Joseph Lister - 1865
🫀Artificial heart - Denton Cooley -1969
💡Artificial hip - John Charnley -1972 (perfected)
💡Artificial skin - Dr. John F. Burke and Ioannis Yannas - 1979
🦠Bacteria (discovered) Anton van Leeuwenhoek - 1674
💡Birth control pill -Gregory Pincus, John Rock and Min-Chueh Chang -1960 (approved by FDA)
🩸Blood circulation (discovered) -William Harvey - 1628 (published)
🩸Blood transfusion (modern) - Dr. Thomas Blundell - 1818
💊Cholera vaccine- Louis Pasteur - 1880
🪞Contact lenses (glass)- Adolf Fick - 1887
🗡Corneal transplants - Eduard Zirm - 1905
💊Cough drops - James Smith and sons -1847
🦷Dental drill (motor-driven) - George Fellows Harrington -1864
💉Disposable syringe- Colin Murdoch -1956
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