The Greatest Medical Breakthrough of All Time.

Posted by Alex in Medicine on January 9, 2007 at 11:39 am


The British Medical Journal is launching a competition to decide the greatest medical breakthrough of all time. Here’s the shortlist:

Anaesthesia, Antibiotics, Chlorpromazine, Computers, DNA, Evidence based medicine, Germ theory, Imaging, Immunology, Oral rehydration therapy, The Pill, Risks of smoking, Sanitation, Tissue culture, Vaccines

The device to the left is an 1850s invention by John Snow: a chloroform inhaler.

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7 comments to "The Greatest Medical Breakthrough of All Time."

  1. damon
    January 9th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    comdom????…great post¡¡

  2. iphi
    January 9th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    I’d either go for vaccination or antibiotics. As for the condom, I guess a lot of rightwing people would then demand that ‘abstinence’ should be added too. ;)

  3. Lasse
    January 9th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    definately Germ theory.

  4. aj
    January 9th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    What about anaesthetics? No way in hell I’d undergo any serious surgery without them.

  5. Robert Aronson
    January 9th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    I would have to go with sanitation. That’s the beginning of everything; the most basic medical practice.

  6. Denita TwoDragons
    January 10th, 2007 at 10:55 am

    Sanitation, anesthesia, and antibiotics. Those three revolutionized the medical practice.

    –TwoDragons

  7. Starstonight
    January 10th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    I vote for sanitation! Wash your hands!


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