300 Firsts

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Medicine

First direct transfusion of blood performed by
Richard Lower, English Physician and physiologist (1666)

First person to be executed by the guillotine
Nicolas J. Pelletier (1792)

First sex-change operation in the world
George (Christine) Jorgenson (1952)

First human heat transplant was performed by
Dr. Christian Barnard (1967)

First human heart transplant recipient
Louis Washkansky. He lived only 18 days with the new heart (1967)

First recipient of a permanent artificial heart
Barney Clark (1982)

First artificial pacemaker implant into a human
By a Swedish team using a pacemaker designed by Rune Elmqvist. The patient was Arne L arson (195

First test tube baby
Louis Brown. In Lancastershire, England. Patrick Christopher Steptoe, English obstetrician, together with Robert Edwards, biologist, succeeded in this first human in vitro fertilization (197

First Indian test tube baby
Harsha, at KEM hospital Mumbai. Indira Hinduja was the doctor (1986)

Parkinson’s disease was first described by
James Parkinson, British neurologist (1817)


Hodgkin’s disease was first recognized by
Thomas Hodgkin, English physician. He was also the first person to stress the importance of post mortem (1832)

DNA finger printing was first developed by
Prof.Alec Jeffreys, UK (1984)

First official recognition of AIDS in the world
Centers for disease control issued a press release describing five cases in Los Angeles, USA (1981)

First to clone an AIDS virus and work out its anatomy
Chinese American Flossie Wong Staal (1985)


To qualify as a medical doctor in Europe
Dr.Maria Montessori, University of Rome, Italy (1896)

First Indian Lady doctor
Kadambani Ganguly (1896)

First woman to receive medical degree in US
Elizabeth Blackwell (1849)

Black woman to study and work as a professionally trained nurse
Mary Eliza Mahoney (1879)

First woman to receive an artificial heart (Jarvik VII)
Mary Lund (1986)


First woman president of the World Health Assembly of WHO
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India (1950)