Therapeutic advance | Scientist, year |
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Treatment of fever | Robert Talbor, 1682 |
Small pox variolation | James Jurin, 1722 |
Treatment of scurvy | James Lind, 1753 |
The “dropsy” | William Withering, 1785 |
Vaccination | Edward Jenner, 1796 |
Anaesthesia | James Simpson, 1853 |
The establishment of antiseptic techniques | Joseph Lister, 1867 |
The discovery of antibiotics | Alexander Fleming, 1928 |