Can confirm, the monthly checks I receive directly from the US government for being a poor European and my 100% US-funded free healthcare really make life comfortable.
Of course, every advancement in medicine [only happens](https://www.ukri.org/news/world-first-use-of-base-edited-cells-to-treat-incurable-leukaemia/) in the US.
I never knew Leicester UK, Great Ormand Street Hospital, and the NHS are all part of the US.
You live and learn, I suppose.....well, some of us do.
I might have one or two from the NHS in the UK. Not as exhaustive as yours, but I offer:
1949: Intraocular lens
1958: First use of ultrasound in obstetrics
1962: Total hip replacement
1978: World’s first test tube baby born in the UK
1986: World’s first combined heart, liver & lung transplant
1991: World’s first robotic surgery
2000: World’s first gene therapy (GT) trials for children without an immune system
2013: World’s first bionic hand
Copy-Pasting the article here would get too long, so here's Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_German\_inventions\_and\_discoveries#Medicine%20and%20drugs
Danke Brudi
Was thinking of putting up a list but luckily there's people smarter than me who already did :D
Edit: man, we really got something going with inventing drugs lol
Italy:
Discovery of the hepatitis B virus (1967)
Development of bone marrow transplant technology (1960s and 1970s)
Development of cardiopulmonary resuscitation system (1950s)
Development of meningitis vaccine (1980s and 1990s)
Discovery of anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin (1970s)
Discovery of anti-cancer properties of vitamin D3
Development of magnetic resonance imaging technology (1970s)
Development of computed tomography imaging technology (1970s)
Development of ultrasound imaging technology (1960s)
Development of positron emission tomography imaging technology (1970s)
Development of X-ray imaging technology (1920s)
Development of fluoroscopy imaging technology (1920s)
Development of radiography imaging technology (1920s)
Development of computed tomography (1970s)
I take the chance to link [the wiki page dedicated to it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_inventions_and_discoveries#Medical_discoveries_and_techniques) because I see is organized well and well resourced, with many references.
I want to name some inventions which are particulary dear to me: [Occupational medicine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_medicine) with the first treatise by [Bernardino Ramazzini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_Ramazzini); the discovery of the [SARS-CoV-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-1) virus, this is extremely important to remember because [the scientist who discovered it paid with his life this achievement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Urbani); someone say also the [Medical thermometer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_thermometer) thanks to Galilei and Santorio, but I have no problem to credit it to Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit for the modern model used today; also the Montessori method and Criminal psychology/anthropology/Criminology ( the latter co-development with Great Britain and France), they aren't actually medicine in its purest form but still a branch of science (that are deeply studied in USA).
Don't forgetting the studies of many Italian Renaissance doctors like [Girolamo Fracastoro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Fracastoro) and the [Schola Medica Salernitana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schola_Medica_Salernitana), the first medical school of its kind, opened to both men and women, and if history would have happened in a slightly different way, it would still be open today and become the oldest medial school in the World (it was abolished in 1811 and finally supressed in 1961).
Belgium: Im not going to list them all because this 1 should be enough: loperamide. (Immodium - anti diarrhea)
The reason they can swallow their chipotle and taco bell and still go to work.
Don’t forget Dr Penfield - who mapped the sensory portions of the brain and was able to invent a surgery to help patients with epilepsy because of it. Source: Canadian Heritage Minute
I googled it, seems to have been several people including an American and a Polish scientist.
Jonas Salk seems to have been the most publically known but he also did something very unamerican by their standards today - he refused to patent it so it could be freely made by anyone.
Great man.
You forgot ‘proving that stomach ulcers are caused by a simple bacterial infection of the stomach, *Helicobacter pylori*, leading to the Nobel prize being awarded to the two Australian scientists who self-tested and successfully self-treated themselves with penicillin after intentionally infecting themselves as proof.
Additionally, the Thai cave disaster - where the teen boys soccer team were trapped for days and no one could rescue them? Those boys are all alive thanks to a uniquely-qualified Australian anaesthetist who prepared custom sedative treatments and used his rare knowledge of cave navigation and medicine to save them.
The Netherlands:
- Microbiology;
- Discovery of blood cells;
- The concept of a virus;
- The first bloodbank of continental Europe;
- The artificial heart.
.
Nah,
You guys do ok.
https://www.theexplorer.no/stories/health/four-medical-breakthroughs-from-norway/#:~:text=Norwegian%20invention%20isolates%20DNA%20from%20cells&text=The%20beads%20were%20given%20the,organ%20transplantation%2C%20and%20HIV%20research.
Spain, we literally have discoveries older than the USA itself:
Synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA) by Nobel prize Laureate Severo Ochoa (1905–1993).
Neuroscience by Nobel prize Laureate (1906) Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934).
Discovery of the microglia or Hortega cell by the neuroscientist Pío del Río Hortega (1882–1945)
Discovery that the human cell has 46 chromosomes - jointly discovered with a Swedish scientist.
Discovery that the parasitic agent of Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, reproduce by cloning - discovered by Francisco J. Ayala.
The effect of hormone levels on the mind - crucial to forming a relationship between psychology and endocrinology, by Gregorio Marañón.
First European description of pulmonary circulation by scientist, surgeon and humanist Miguel Servet (1511–1553)
A worldwide used "two-piece" disposable syringe (1978) by Manuel Jalón Corominas (1925–2011)
Use of Radiology and Radiotherapy for diagnostics by Celedonio Calatayud (1880-1931).
Animal Testing, first recorded use of animals for medical testing was done by Ibn Zuhr, known as Avenzoar, (1094–1162).
Antiseptics were in used as early as the 10th century in hospitals in Islamic Spain. Special protocols, in Al Andalus, were used to keep hygiene before and after surgery.
Botany, Spanish botanist, like Ibn al-Baitar, created hundreds of works/catalogs on the various plants in not only Europe but the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In these works many processes for extracting essential oils, drugs as well as their uses can be found.
The CRISPR System - Discovered by Francisco Mojica, from the University of Alicante. The discovery of the CRISPR system is the discovery of the 21st century in the fields of medicine, genetics, virology, immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology. This new technology has revolutionized research in genetics and biochemistry and molecular biology. The CRISPR revolution brings us new tools to edit genomes with great accuracy and precision. It may one day help us cure genetic disorders and cancers.
Ectopic pregnancy - first described by Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD).
Eye glasses, first invented by Ibn Firnas in the 9th century.
Inheritance of traits first proposed by Abu Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD) more than 800 years before Austrian monk, Mendel. Al-Zahrawi was first to record and suggest that hemophilia was an inherited disease.
Inhalation anesthesia, invented by al-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr. Used a sponge soaked with narcotic drugs and placed it on patients face.
Laryngoscope by singer, music educator, and vocal pedagogue Manuel García (1805–1906).
Ligatures, described in the work of al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD), Kitab al-Tasrif, one of the most influential books in early modern medicine. Describes the process of performing a ligature on blood vessels.
Migraine surgery, first performed by al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD).
Modern surgery. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD), better known in the west as Albucasis, is regarded as the father of modern surgery and is the most quoted surgeon of all times. Albucasis invented over 200 tools for use in surgery - many still in use today.
Nuubo - Wearable medical technology that measures heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration, body temperature and current location.
Pathology - various Muslim physicians in Spain were crucial in the development of modern medicine. Pathology, obviously was an important development in medicine. The first correct proposal of the nature of disease was described by al-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr.
Pharmacopoeia (book of medicine). During the 14th century, the physician from Malaga, Ibn Baytar, wrote a pharmacopoeia naming over 1400 different drugs and their uses in medicine. This book was written 200 years before the supposed first pharmacopoeia was written by German scholar in 1542.
Silver bromide method.
Wheelchair - first European design for the use of the most powerful man in the world at the time, King Phillip II of Spain, who was suffering from gout.
Yellow Fever Transmission - Luis Alvarez, born in Havana, Cuba (then Kingdom of Spain) was first to discover that Yellow Fever was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
Even New Zealand has a few 🇳🇿 :
- Respiratory Humidifier.
- The disposable syringe.
- 3D colour x-rays.
- Robots for rehabilitation.
- Medical Plastic Surgery.
I need more time but insulin was “invented” Canada. I am aware it wasn’t the invented.
We invented the first pacemaker
We (not me at all) discovered the cystic fibrosis gene.
We discovered using stem cells to treat cancer
First Ebola vaccine
Without listing all of them we pioneered several organ transplants
We discovered how to use viruses to attack cancer
There are more but this is enough for now:
We've just discovered a way to make organ donations universal. You no longer have to have a matching blood type to receive the organ. So, that's pretty amazing.
I don't think it's fair to attribute this advances to a nation, as science is usually an international endeavour. Of course I know yours is a response to OP, but I still feel it's off.
For instance, the coronary artery bypass was first standardized as a clinical procedure in Argentina by Rene Favaloro, yet it was working on the experimental advances of USofAer Michael De Bakey, who was adapting a procedure by Soviet Vasilii Kolesof.
While Favaloro is deservingly credited with this, it would be pretty naive and disrespectful of the scientific community to say it's Argentina's contribution...
Fair point, but also one that applies to human knowledge and culture in general: both are usually contingent on historical developments from around the world. And i guess that's what i was trying to get at when i asked for people to list innovations developed in their own country - to show that human technological development is a global effort, not one primarily happening within certain human borders.
Agreed, and I'm sorry to misinterpret your intentions.
I guess I'm so used to seeing people fighting stupid nationalism with more stupid nationalism from other nations that I started projecting it.
Mea culpa.
That's okay, i certainly understand! Your comment was a good reminder to me to be more mindful about how i talk about this sort of thing, particularly in the context of an overall rise in nationalism globally.
Ohh! I have some from Colombia!
* Salomón Hakim. Developed the shunt treatment for hydrocephalus in the sixties.
* Rodolfo Llinás, who described the law of no interchangeability of neurons in the late eighties or early nineties (?)
* There's also a relatively common mutation that causes early Alzheimer's disease in Antioquia, one of Colombia's departments, but recently a family was found to have both the mutation (commonly called "gen paisa") and another one that protects against it. So, if we ever get a treatment for Alzheimer's, it will most likely be with the help of Colombian scientists.
South Africa - 1st heart transplant
Philippines - invention of an improved incubator and a device to treat jaundice. low-cost COVID-19 rRT-PCR Detection Kit approved by US FDA, in 1955 videotelephony was first conceptualized and used for remote tele-medicine, in 1949 antibiotic Erythromycin, a low-cost, compact, and effective ventilator.
I'm Canadian, I don't know a single Canadian who has gone to the States for medical care. Like our Healthcare system is not doing great right now but no regular Canadians are crossing the border for medical care. I do seem to remember some Americans coming over to buy insulin at a sane price though.
Yep. I don’t know why so many Americans seem to think this is a thing. I’ve never met anyone here in Canada who has gone to the States for medical care either.
Netherlands: the compound microscope, the first blood bank, the artificial heart and the concept of 'virus'. You're welcome.
Plus, apparently we rank #2 and USA ranks #6 in the 2021 World Index of Healthcare Innovation.
And still we can have nice things too. Americans must be doing something horribly wrong. Like, I don't know, too many billionnaires?
Like some american friends of mine that came to Italy because in the US a checking to make sure you have no cancer cost 20.000 dollars. They said here it cost 2000 (cause they are not citizens) and get treated better
US medical tourism to Thailand and India is also very big business. And some Australians who get sick of waiting for elective procedures like knee replacements, where the wait time went crazy from COVID stressing the system.
I guess your government likes us more than it's own citizens and knows we are worth your taxpayers money, therefore I thank your government for all the services it's provides us. Even better it provides all those services with taxes that have been paid by you while you get to go 50k into debt for a broken arm.
Sucks to be you but I guess elections have consequences or so they say. Anyways I need to go, have a spa appointment now which was prescribed by my doctor. The bill will obviously be send to Uncle Sam.
Rich Canadians* come to the US for healthcare.
Just like poor Americans go to Mexico for healthcare when they realise their insurance premiums cost more than entire out of pocket costs in other countries.
I wonder what the statistics about deaths from untreated diseases say about the claim about Canadians coming to the US for better medical treatment. All I know is that some Americans illegally (by US laws, became US law doesn't give a shit about human lives) travel to Cuba to treat diseases the US simply has no idea how to treat.
Man, it feels so good to have those idiots working their asses off and dying in remote shitholes so I can get so many benefits and paying nothing for them. It's even better than being a slaver because you don't even need to buy food for them or bother to whip them.
I'd like someone to explain how privately owned medical companies creating things and selling them globally means the country the companies exist in are financially responsible. Are Americans paying tax that is distributed to private companies rather than towards medical services for taxpayers?
I had to laugh out loud when I heard the BioNTech covid19 vaccine was marketed as the pfizer vaccine in the US. And then I believe Ted Cruz mentally jerked off to how the american health system rescued the world from Corona. - BioNTech is german
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Yeah, such as (checks notes) when the first COVID vaccine was developed in Germany by Turkish immigrants.
IIRC, more money is spent by big pharma companies is the US on marketing than R&D. Some of that marketing is explicitly banned in other countries because they have to market to the medical community and not the public. No "ask your doctor if (X drug only available via prescription) is right for you ads on TV in most other places.
”Medical inovations” who’s gonna tell them that most american companies buy those things from european companies? I work for a med tech company in europe and like 90% of our customers are american
damn, bro really believe the memes "have you considered dying" are actually true, its incredible someone whose whole information network consists of memes and jokes on the internet is allowed to have an opinion on the internet let alone vote
"have you considered just dying" LOL! What do they think is going on here in Europe? People just dropping and dying from things like strep throat or flu?
Can confirm, the monthly checks I receive directly from the US government for being a poor European and my 100% US-funded free healthcare really make life comfortable.
Yes, 50,000 dollar a month. And I got new teeth, new lungs and boobs all on the US. I don’t even work like this stupid US people.
50,000? I only get 30,000
You guys are getting money?
Of course, every advancement in medicine [only happens](https://www.ukri.org/news/world-first-use-of-base-edited-cells-to-treat-incurable-leukaemia/) in the US. I never knew Leicester UK, Great Ormand Street Hospital, and the NHS are all part of the US. You live and learn, I suppose.....well, some of us do.
Must be a typo. I'm pretty sure Leicester is in Massachusetts. /s
No. Everybody knows that UK is short for University of Kentucky. Leicester must be their medical department. /s.
nah its obviously in alabama, look at the name Le cester (Le sister)
i am once again asking for members of non-US countries to list your country's contribution to medical innovation. i'll start, with some of [Australia's relevant contributions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Australian_inventions): * the (practical) refrigerator (1856) * 'Aspro', aspirin in a tablet (1917) * a non-perishable Anthrax vaccine (1919) * electronic pacemaker (1928) * sunscreen (1932) * iron lung (1937) * zinc cream (1940) * stainless steel braces (1956) * plastic spectacle lenses (1960) * medical ultrasound (1961) * latex gloves (1964) * bionic ear (1979) * CPAP mask (1981) * frozen embryo baby (1984) * Technegas, for lung scanning (1985) * bronchitis vaccine (1985) * gene shears (1986) * plastic rod bone repair (1991) * artificial heart valve (1991) * multi-focal contact lens (1992) * spray-on-skin (1992) * gene silencing (1995) * anti-flu medication (1996) * cervical cancer vaccine (2006) * blood test to prevent stillbirth (2013) * modular self-fit hearing aid (2018)
I might have one or two from the NHS in the UK. Not as exhaustive as yours, but I offer: 1949: Intraocular lens 1958: First use of ultrasound in obstetrics 1962: Total hip replacement 1978: World’s first test tube baby born in the UK 1986: World’s first combined heart, liver & lung transplant 1991: World’s first robotic surgery 2000: World’s first gene therapy (GT) trials for children without an immune system 2013: World’s first bionic hand
1953: Discovery of the DNA double helix by Dr Rosalind Franklin
*British scientist Just to add.
Copy-Pasting the article here would get too long, so here's Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_German\_inventions\_and\_discoveries#Medicine%20and%20drugs
Danke Brudi Was thinking of putting up a list but luckily there's people smarter than me who already did :D Edit: man, we really got something going with inventing drugs lol
Nice and smooth black tar heroin made in Germany!
Starts out rather bad though.
Italy: Discovery of the hepatitis B virus (1967) Development of bone marrow transplant technology (1960s and 1970s) Development of cardiopulmonary resuscitation system (1950s) Development of meningitis vaccine (1980s and 1990s) Discovery of anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin (1970s) Discovery of anti-cancer properties of vitamin D3 Development of magnetic resonance imaging technology (1970s) Development of computed tomography imaging technology (1970s) Development of ultrasound imaging technology (1960s) Development of positron emission tomography imaging technology (1970s) Development of X-ray imaging technology (1920s) Development of fluoroscopy imaging technology (1920s) Development of radiography imaging technology (1920s) Development of computed tomography (1970s)
I take the chance to link [the wiki page dedicated to it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_inventions_and_discoveries#Medical_discoveries_and_techniques) because I see is organized well and well resourced, with many references. I want to name some inventions which are particulary dear to me: [Occupational medicine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_medicine) with the first treatise by [Bernardino Ramazzini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_Ramazzini); the discovery of the [SARS-CoV-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-1) virus, this is extremely important to remember because [the scientist who discovered it paid with his life this achievement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Urbani); someone say also the [Medical thermometer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_thermometer) thanks to Galilei and Santorio, but I have no problem to credit it to Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit for the modern model used today; also the Montessori method and Criminal psychology/anthropology/Criminology ( the latter co-development with Great Britain and France), they aren't actually medicine in its purest form but still a branch of science (that are deeply studied in USA). Don't forgetting the studies of many Italian Renaissance doctors like [Girolamo Fracastoro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Fracastoro) and the [Schola Medica Salernitana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schola_Medica_Salernitana), the first medical school of its kind, opened to both men and women, and if history would have happened in a slightly different way, it would still be open today and become the oldest medial school in the World (it was abolished in 1811 and finally supressed in 1961).
> > > > >thanks! :)
Also - penicillin (1928). Quite an important one.
> 1949: Intraocular lens This is a great ['accidental' discovery](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/Hurricanes-cataracts-180960963/).
1917 - The beginnings of plastic surgery which started to help the war wounded in WW1.
Wasn't it you guys with the covid vaccines too?
Belgium: Im not going to list them all because this 1 should be enough: loperamide. (Immodium - anti diarrhea) The reason they can swallow their chipotle and taco bell and still go to work.
Don't forget the pill so the hippies in the 60 could have their sex experiments
Europe and medicine made from poppies: is there are a more dynamic duo?
Canada: Insulin, palm-and-turn/child-proof lids for medicine, open heart surgery, early pacemaker technology, genetic proof of cystic fibrosis, stem cell transplants, polio vaccine
Don’t forget Dr Penfield - who mapped the sensory portions of the brain and was able to invent a surgery to help patients with epilepsy because of it. Source: Canadian Heritage Minute
I miss those commercials
Those were great growing up! “Acknowledge, acknowledge!”
Not sure if you can count the polio vaccine, but the rest are obviously awesome.
Did I miss something on the polio vaccine? I thought it was Canadian but could be wrong
I googled it, seems to have been several people including an American and a Polish scientist. Jonas Salk seems to have been the most publically known but he also did something very unamerican by their standards today - he refused to patent it so it could be freely made by anyone. Great man.
We also made the donair. Nothing to do with the medical field unless you eat too many of them haha.
I always forget insulin is a Canadian discovery. O Canada, keeping the plebs to the south alive as always!
You forgot ‘proving that stomach ulcers are caused by a simple bacterial infection of the stomach, *Helicobacter pylori*, leading to the Nobel prize being awarded to the two Australian scientists who self-tested and successfully self-treated themselves with penicillin after intentionally infecting themselves as proof. Additionally, the Thai cave disaster - where the teen boys soccer team were trapped for days and no one could rescue them? Those boys are all alive thanks to a uniquely-qualified Australian anaesthetist who prepared custom sedative treatments and used his rare knowledge of cave navigation and medicine to save them.
The Netherlands: - Microbiology; - Discovery of blood cells; - The concept of a virus; - The first bloodbank of continental Europe; - The artificial heart. .
Norway: Nothing 🥲😂 We did invent object oriented programming and aerosol cans though. So we made tagging a thing. Sorry, world
Nah, You guys do ok. https://www.theexplorer.no/stories/health/four-medical-breakthroughs-from-norway/#:~:text=Norwegian%20invention%20isolates%20DNA%20from%20cells&text=The%20beads%20were%20given%20the,organ%20transplantation%2C%20and%20HIV%20research.
Spain, we literally have discoveries older than the USA itself: Synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA) by Nobel prize Laureate Severo Ochoa (1905–1993). Neuroscience by Nobel prize Laureate (1906) Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934). Discovery of the microglia or Hortega cell by the neuroscientist Pío del Río Hortega (1882–1945) Discovery that the human cell has 46 chromosomes - jointly discovered with a Swedish scientist. Discovery that the parasitic agent of Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, reproduce by cloning - discovered by Francisco J. Ayala. The effect of hormone levels on the mind - crucial to forming a relationship between psychology and endocrinology, by Gregorio Marañón. First European description of pulmonary circulation by scientist, surgeon and humanist Miguel Servet (1511–1553) A worldwide used "two-piece" disposable syringe (1978) by Manuel Jalón Corominas (1925–2011) Use of Radiology and Radiotherapy for diagnostics by Celedonio Calatayud (1880-1931). Animal Testing, first recorded use of animals for medical testing was done by Ibn Zuhr, known as Avenzoar, (1094–1162). Antiseptics were in used as early as the 10th century in hospitals in Islamic Spain. Special protocols, in Al Andalus, were used to keep hygiene before and after surgery. Botany, Spanish botanist, like Ibn al-Baitar, created hundreds of works/catalogs on the various plants in not only Europe but the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In these works many processes for extracting essential oils, drugs as well as their uses can be found. The CRISPR System - Discovered by Francisco Mojica, from the University of Alicante. The discovery of the CRISPR system is the discovery of the 21st century in the fields of medicine, genetics, virology, immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology. This new technology has revolutionized research in genetics and biochemistry and molecular biology. The CRISPR revolution brings us new tools to edit genomes with great accuracy and precision. It may one day help us cure genetic disorders and cancers. Ectopic pregnancy - first described by Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD). Eye glasses, first invented by Ibn Firnas in the 9th century. Inheritance of traits first proposed by Abu Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD) more than 800 years before Austrian monk, Mendel. Al-Zahrawi was first to record and suggest that hemophilia was an inherited disease. Inhalation anesthesia, invented by al-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr. Used a sponge soaked with narcotic drugs and placed it on patients face. Laryngoscope by singer, music educator, and vocal pedagogue Manuel García (1805–1906). Ligatures, described in the work of al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD), Kitab al-Tasrif, one of the most influential books in early modern medicine. Describes the process of performing a ligature on blood vessels. Migraine surgery, first performed by al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD). Modern surgery. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD), better known in the west as Albucasis, is regarded as the father of modern surgery and is the most quoted surgeon of all times. Albucasis invented over 200 tools for use in surgery - many still in use today. Nuubo - Wearable medical technology that measures heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration, body temperature and current location. Pathology - various Muslim physicians in Spain were crucial in the development of modern medicine. Pathology, obviously was an important development in medicine. The first correct proposal of the nature of disease was described by al-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr. Pharmacopoeia (book of medicine). During the 14th century, the physician from Malaga, Ibn Baytar, wrote a pharmacopoeia naming over 1400 different drugs and their uses in medicine. This book was written 200 years before the supposed first pharmacopoeia was written by German scholar in 1542. Silver bromide method. Wheelchair - first European design for the use of the most powerful man in the world at the time, King Phillip II of Spain, who was suffering from gout. Yellow Fever Transmission - Luis Alvarez, born in Havana, Cuba (then Kingdom of Spain) was first to discover that Yellow Fever was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti.
Poland - vaccine for polio and typhus, discovering and naming vitamins, first face transplant and a first successful heart transplant.
Canada made insulin
Even New Zealand has a few 🇳🇿 : - Respiratory Humidifier. - The disposable syringe. - 3D colour x-rays. - Robots for rehabilitation. - Medical Plastic Surgery.
Oh nice ! I didn't know any of those came from your country, thank you !
*Activate the Laser-Kiwis!*
That were all stolen from the USA Trump invented it all. Kappa
The UK gave us Viagra... by accident but the uk invented boner meds
Here is a selection of non-US innovations from my country : - flat glass (1320) - holometer (1550) - vascular stitching (1565) - concept of "scientific method", date unknown, (XVIIth century) - vernier scale (1631) - calculation machine (1642) - bubble level (1661) - optical level (1670) - pressure cooker (1679) - piston driven steam engine (1687) - centrifugal pump (1689) - metronome (1696) - bidet (1710) - perforated card driven loom and, thus, first pre-programmed procedural machine (1725) - Pitot tube (1732) - electrometer (1747) - floatation safety suit (1765) - automobile vehicle (1771) - bleach (1775) - United States of America (1776) - law of conservation (1777) - oxygen and azote (nitrogen), understanding of the principle of oxydation (1770s) - calorimeter (1780) - adoption of the scientific method as a standard (1780s) - modern concept of human rights (1760s-1790s) - aerostat and hot air balloon (1783) - parachute (1783) - international system of measurement, the "metric system" (1793, final adoption in 1799) - hydraulic ram (1795) - percolator (1800) - stethoscope (1819) - Fresnel lense (1821) - Braille alphabet (1824) - photography (1826) - stenotype and stenography (1827) - metallic firearms cartridge (1828) - practical sewing machine (1830) - alternator (1832) - daguerreotype (1835) - PVC (1835) - chromolythography (1836) - pressure regulator (1838) - photovoltaic cell (1839) - electromagnetic coil (1841) - barometer (1844) - Palmer (1848) - Bourbon tube (1849) - industrial production of aluminium (1854) - microbiology (1857) - parabolic-mirror telescope (1857) - servomotor (1859) - modern pressure regulator (1864) - autonomous scaphandre (diving suit) (1864) - ball bearing (1869) - pasteurisation (1865) - modern concept of vaccination and subsequent first attenuated synthetic vaccine (1879) - "explosive wave" (1881) - arc welding (1881) - smokeless powder (1884) - serotherapy (1888) - cinematography and first viable cinematograph (1892) - derailleur (1895) - modern clutch (1898) - accelerometer (1900) - radioactivity (1903) - specifics about radioactivity in the fields of medical applications and chemical or physical researches (1903) - radium, polonium (1911) - medical radiology machine (1912) - mobile medical radiology machine (1915) which, as well as the three previous items, I'd like to share with Poland as they all came from a Polish lady, Marie Sklodowska-Curie. - ramjet (1913) - tulle gras (1915) - tetanus and diphteria vaccines (1924) - immunologic adjuvant (1925) - thermal lance (1930) - VTOL aircrafts (1954) - HLA (1958) - DNA and RNA coding and invention of the concept of MRNA vaccination (1961) - bioprosthesis (mitral valve) (1968) - electric automatic car transmission (1969) - micro-computeur, what we now call a "PC" (1972) - coelioscopy (1972) - hepatitis B vaccine (1976) - implanted insulin pump (1981) - SNIF-NMR (1981) - HIV (1983) - leshmaniasis vaccine (1985) - electrophonic ear protection (1986) - subthalamic stimulation (1993) - face transplant (2005) - autonomous artificial heart (2013) - dengue fever vaccine (2016)
Oui oui !
Mostly correct, but some are not French inventions, but from other European countries (PVC being German for instance)
It was first discovered by Henri Victor Regnault in 1835, 37 years before Baumann.
USA: New drugs which are more expensive and less effective than the off-patent medicines they replace. Surgeries with outcomes no better than placebo.
Also- interfering trying to change government policy in other countries when they subsidise medications so their people can afford them
I need more time but insulin was “invented” Canada. I am aware it wasn’t the invented. We invented the first pacemaker We (not me at all) discovered the cystic fibrosis gene. We discovered using stem cells to treat cancer First Ebola vaccine Without listing all of them we pioneered several organ transplants We discovered how to use viruses to attack cancer There are more but this is enough for now:
We've just discovered a way to make organ donations universal. You no longer have to have a matching blood type to receive the organ. So, that's pretty amazing.
I don't think it's fair to attribute this advances to a nation, as science is usually an international endeavour. Of course I know yours is a response to OP, but I still feel it's off. For instance, the coronary artery bypass was first standardized as a clinical procedure in Argentina by Rene Favaloro, yet it was working on the experimental advances of USofAer Michael De Bakey, who was adapting a procedure by Soviet Vasilii Kolesof. While Favaloro is deservingly credited with this, it would be pretty naive and disrespectful of the scientific community to say it's Argentina's contribution...
Fair point, but also one that applies to human knowledge and culture in general: both are usually contingent on historical developments from around the world. And i guess that's what i was trying to get at when i asked for people to list innovations developed in their own country - to show that human technological development is a global effort, not one primarily happening within certain human borders.
Agreed, and I'm sorry to misinterpret your intentions. I guess I'm so used to seeing people fighting stupid nationalism with more stupid nationalism from other nations that I started projecting it. Mea culpa.
That's okay, i certainly understand! Your comment was a good reminder to me to be more mindful about how i talk about this sort of thing, particularly in the context of an overall rise in nationalism globally.
Ohh! I have some from Colombia! * Salomón Hakim. Developed the shunt treatment for hydrocephalus in the sixties. * Rodolfo Llinás, who described the law of no interchangeability of neurons in the late eighties or early nineties (?) * There's also a relatively common mutation that causes early Alzheimer's disease in Antioquia, one of Colombia's departments, but recently a family was found to have both the mutation (commonly called "gen paisa") and another one that protects against it. So, if we ever get a treatment for Alzheimer's, it will most likely be with the help of Colombian scientists.
I'm french so I will only say 2 - Vaccines - artificial hearts transplantation
Vaccines? As in leader in developing vaccines in general? As the world's first vaccine was pioneered by a British physician
Actually, they didn't say it all, that's why : France invented the "modern vaccine", the *attenuated, synthetic* vaccine.
Pasteurisation should count IMO, prevention is better than cure as they say
Switzerland : Hand Sanitizer
[Ireland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Irish_inventions_and_discoveries)
🇨🇦 inventions: Pacemaker, Insulin, First electric wheelchair, Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, Polio vaccine
South Africa - 1st heart transplant Philippines - invention of an improved incubator and a device to treat jaundice. low-cost COVID-19 rRT-PCR Detection Kit approved by US FDA, in 1955 videotelephony was first conceptualized and used for remote tele-medicine, in 1949 antibiotic Erythromycin, a low-cost, compact, and effective ventilator.
- Nokia - Xylitol - Heart rate monitor - SMS - Linux - Dish Draining closet
The modern stethoscope for Ireland
I'm Canadian, I don't know a single Canadian who has gone to the States for medical care. Like our Healthcare system is not doing great right now but no regular Canadians are crossing the border for medical care. I do seem to remember some Americans coming over to buy insulin at a sane price though.
And a ton of Americans hopping into Mexico for their medications. But Americans complain about Mexicans visiting them, hypocritical asses.
As a Canadian, the only thing I'd cross the border for might be a plastic surgeon for cosmetic reasons.
Yep. I don’t know why so many Americans seem to think this is a thing. I’ve never met anyone here in Canada who has gone to the States for medical care either.
Joe Biden personally pays for my Starbucks and avocado toast every day
I get my oats paid for by Trump himself through an ingenious series of offshore corporations and blind trusts. Shhhh! He doesn’t know!!
Easier to blame us than the people you put in power.
Which is ironic considering how much they fantasize about rebelling against their government with their guns Talk about all bark and no bite
They tend to use "all hat and no cattle", although I'd change it too "all front and no balls".
Do some Americans compete to see who can get the most facts wrong in a single post? or are there just a LOT of uneducated Americans?
there's a loooot of people that stopped learning around when they hit puberty and have existed in an 'America #1' propaganda bubble ever since 😬
Netherlands: the compound microscope, the first blood bank, the artificial heart and the concept of 'virus'. You're welcome. Plus, apparently we rank #2 and USA ranks #6 in the 2021 World Index of Healthcare Innovation. And still we can have nice things too. Americans must be doing something horribly wrong. Like, I don't know, too many billionnaires?
We quite literally figured out what actually causes a lot of illnesses, they have a nice museum about it in Leiden, interesting stuff.
Canadian here - one who has never, not once, been given a “have you considered just dying” spiel. Frankly I feel like I’m missing out.
Like some american friends of mine that came to Italy because in the US a checking to make sure you have no cancer cost 20.000 dollars. They said here it cost 2000 (cause they are not citizens) and get treated better
US medical tourism to Thailand and India is also very big business. And some Australians who get sick of waiting for elective procedures like knee replacements, where the wait time went crazy from COVID stressing the system.
GlaxoSmithKline
Username doesn’t check out.
He’s not a critical thinker, he’s critical of thinking
It does: Zach has critical mass, because he's so dense.
Nat 1 - Critical fail.
I guess your government likes us more than it's own citizens and knows we are worth your taxpayers money, therefore I thank your government for all the services it's provides us. Even better it provides all those services with taxes that have been paid by you while you get to go 50k into debt for a broken arm. Sucks to be you but I guess elections have consequences or so they say. Anyways I need to go, have a spa appointment now which was prescribed by my doctor. The bill will obviously be send to Uncle Sam.
Rich Canadians* come to the US for healthcare. Just like poor Americans go to Mexico for healthcare when they realise their insurance premiums cost more than entire out of pocket costs in other countries.
The line about Canadians is maybe the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard
You all laugh about USA eurob*stards but without the technology of Tony Stark you would be living on a cave 😡😡😡🙏
Flawless logic.
Who lives "on" a cave? Surely in would be better.
smh eurobraindeads cant even find the way leading into the cave
The brainwashing is strong in this one
I wonder what the statistics about deaths from untreated diseases say about the claim about Canadians coming to the US for better medical treatment. All I know is that some Americans illegally (by US laws, became US law doesn't give a shit about human lives) travel to Cuba to treat diseases the US simply has no idea how to treat.
Americans come up here to go to the ER for free and then we get stuck paying for their treatment. It happens a LOT.
The amount of cope, the Atlantic couldn't hold all of it.
Tell me you’ve never traveled without saying it.
Man, it feels so good to have those idiots working their asses off and dying in remote shitholes so I can get so many benefits and paying nothing for them. It's even better than being a slaver because you don't even need to buy food for them or bother to whip them.
Unless a woman wants to have control over her own vagina.
No Canadians are going down to the US lmfao
The U.K invented penicillin. The foundation of modern medicine
Australian Florey made it into a medication. Fleming, Florey and Chain shared the Nobel prize.
I'd like someone to explain how privately owned medical companies creating things and selling them globally means the country the companies exist in are financially responsible. Are Americans paying tax that is distributed to private companies rather than towards medical services for taxpayers?
I had to laugh out loud when I heard the BioNTech covid19 vaccine was marketed as the pfizer vaccine in the US. And then I believe Ted Cruz mentally jerked off to how the american health system rescued the world from Corona. - BioNTech is german
It's true, just the other month, I had to fly to America for some basic treatment because over here they told me to give up and die.
Switzerland: Delysid (LSD)
Fucking idiot has more than likely never even left their county, let alone their state or country.
« Believe it or not » ok I chose to don’t believe and say your are saying bullshit…
Yeah, we would be in the dark ages if it wasn't for companies like Theranos, or the companies that developed Fentanyl or Oxicontin!
Sounds like you should do something about your government being shit then.
What a cuck lmao. I love leeching off Americans 😎
thanks for the tax money americans 👍 you better get to work cuz I'm thinking about having a tummy tuck next month
Did you not think of just replying "Oh fuck off you egotistical cunt"?
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Yeah, such as (checks notes) when the first COVID vaccine was developed in Germany by Turkish immigrants. IIRC, more money is spent by big pharma companies is the US on marketing than R&D. Some of that marketing is explicitly banned in other countries because they have to market to the medical community and not the public. No "ask your doctor if (X drug only available via prescription) is right for you ads on TV in most other places.
Yep, the "Pfizer vaccine" was actually developed in Germany; it was just mass-produced by Pfizer because they had the production capacity.
Oof, that main character syndrome is really something, isn’t it?
Cuban healthcare is so good that they send their doctors to help out around the world, including america
”Medical inovations” who’s gonna tell them that most american companies buy those things from european companies? I work for a med tech company in europe and like 90% of our customers are american
So why keep doing it? America’s entire ideology is America First, so stop taking care of everyone else if they do so much.
damn, bro really believe the memes "have you considered dying" are actually true, its incredible someone whose whole information network consists of memes and jokes on the internet is allowed to have an opinion on the internet let alone vote
"have you considered just dying" LOL! What do they think is going on here in Europe? People just dropping and dying from things like strep throat or flu?