The Greatest Medical Breakthrough of All Time. - Neatorama

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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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. ;)

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definately Germ theory.

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

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

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

--TwoDragons

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I vote for sanitation! Wash your hands!

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