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Seeing is Believing: a Century to Remember For Medical Science
It’s probably fair to say that medical science has advanced greatly. From the discovery of penicillin by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928, to the first human-to-human heart transplantation by South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard in 1967, the 20th century certainly saw some major medical breakthroughs. But whilst there can be no disputing the universal significance of Fleming and Barnard’s scientific advances, there have been a number of other notable medical visionaries that we have a lot to be thankful for, some of whom perhaps don’t receive the credit they deserve. With many technological inventions, it’s not always easy to give credit to one person, given that it may have been honed and perfected over a period of time. Indeed, there may well have been a number of people who helped to progress the technology over several decades. Laser eye surgery, for example, has had numerous pioneers over the years. Even before laser surgery was invented, Russian doctor Svyatoslav Fyodorov was performing groundbreaking work in the field of eye surgery – and in 1960, he implanted the first artificial crystalline lens. Dr Fyodorov also developed a surgical technique for
Seeing is Believing: a Century to Remember For Medical Science
It’s probably fair to say that medical science has advanced greatly. From the discovery of penicillin by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928, to the first human-to-human heart transplantation by South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard in 1967, the 20th century certainly saw some major medical breakthroughs. But whilst there can be no disputing the universal significance of Fleming and Barnard’s scientific advances, there have been a number of other notable medical visionaries that we have a lot to be thankful for, some of whom perhaps don’t receive the credit they deserve. With many technological inventions, it’s not always easy to give credit to one person, given that it may have been honed and perfected over a period of time. Indeed, there may well have been a number of people who helped to progress the technology over several decades. Laser eye surgery, for example, has had numerous pioneers over the years. Even before laser surgery was invented, Russian doctor Svyatoslav Fyodorov was performing groundbreaking work in the field of eye surgery – and in 1960, he implanted the first artificial crystalline lens. Dr Fyodorov also developed a surgical technique… More >>