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1928 |
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| Fibre optic gastroscopy, 1998
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| Knoll and Ruska build electron microscope |
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1931 |
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| Scanning electron micrograph, red blood cells,1998
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| Grantly Dick Read advocates natural childbirth |
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1933 |
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| Father-to-be reassured by the family doctor
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| Robert James Minnit invents gas and air apparatus |
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1933 |
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| Midwife giving a woman gas and air
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| British Postgraduate Medical School established |
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1935 |
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| A surgical operation at Royal Liverpool University Hospital
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| Pioneer Health Centre opened |
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1935 |
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| Keep-fit class on roof, Pioneer Health Centre, London.
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| Prontosil reduces maternal mortality rate |
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1936 |
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| A new mother receives the last rites
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| Walter Freeman develops 'ice-pick lobotomy' |
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1936 |
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| Watts-Freeman lobotomy instruments
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| Nuffield builds 'iron lungs' |
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1938 |
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| ‘Iron lung'
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| Discovery of hormones leads to replacement therapy |
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c. 1940 |
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| Advertisement for ‘Menopax'
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| Penicillin goes into mass production |
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1941 |
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| Women manufacturing penicillin
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| Hodkgin determines molecular structure of penicillin |
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1944 |
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| Crystals, engraving 1802
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| NHS takes over 2688 British hospitals |
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1948 |
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| Nurse monitoring a patient after surgery
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| Smoking linked to lung cancer |
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1950 |
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| Tobacco and the doctor's opinion
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| Development of mind-altering medicines |
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c. 1950 |
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| Rotatory motion machine, 1828
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| Brownell and Sweet build PET scanner |
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1953 |
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| PET scanner, 1995
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| DNA unravelled |
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1953 |
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| Uncle Sam and John Bull knitting DNA, 1990
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| Joseph Murray performs first kidney transplant |
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1954 |
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| Ian Donald uses ultrasound on pregnant women |
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1955 |
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| Foetus at 25 weeks, 1991
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| Maiman constructs first working laser |
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1960 |
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| Laser treatment to the eye,1992
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| Sister and nurse with drugs trolley, 1985
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| Thalidomide disaster |
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| Charnley pioneers joint replacement |
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1962 |
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| Total knee replacement
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| Coronary bypass surgery |
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1964 |
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| Coronary artery bypass graft
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| First heart transplant |
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1967 |
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| Saunders founds hospice movement |
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1967 |
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| Hospice care
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| In vitro fertilization |
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1969 |
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