“the fastest knife in the West End. He could amputate a leg in 21⁄2 minutes.”
We relieved a lot of people of their pain.
We invented disposable syringes and epidural anesthesia and discovered neurons.
Figured out how eyes work
Why is it that back in the day people would die from a scratch but were so eager to stick pointy objects into their brain for no apparent reason.
I think I read something about Egyptians drilling holes into people’s skulls to cure sinus congestion. Like I get sinus headaches too sometimes and they suck but damn.
invention of stainless steel for sterile instruments
Antibiotics
At last, a cure for the French disease, if not the French themselves
Opioids and the contraceptive pill were invented in Belgium. Mix in a few of our beers and you never have to have sober sex ever again.
Invented the vaccine for typhus and polio, discovered vitamins, discovered adrenaline
The idea of medicine as a whole, I find it funny when people take the Hippocratic oath and live on the other side of the planet and never have heard of the guy.
Semmelweis discovered that disinfecting your hands after playing with the dead and/or fatally ill before you fiddle around a birthing woman’s vulva was a rather splendid idea.
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We found out bones were getting in the way of the bits we wanted to touch so we invented the chainsaw.
We did a few other things, here and there.
Microscopy ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Paulescu invented insulin but his political opinions were a little too based so he didn’t share the nobel prize
none but we sell teeth does that count
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Francis Rynd in Dublin made the hypodermic needle to help the Scots enjoy drugs.
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Vaccines
[eh… some pain killer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Bayer_Heroin_bottle.jpg/1280px-Bayer_Heroin_bottle.jpg)
We found out that every of your thoughts has something to do with sex and you probably want to fuck your mum
https://preview.redd.it/31ohzputsytd1.jpeg?width=1793&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04f23b5d9bea44dbe065e3afcd08e6eb57c2a1db
[Mudpiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terp)
Robert Liston
“the fastest knife in the West End. He could amputate a leg in 21⁄2 minutes.”
We relieved a lot of people of their pain.
We invented disposable syringes and epidural anesthesia and discovered neurons.
Figured out how eyes work
Why is it that back in the day people would die from a scratch but were so eager to stick pointy objects into their brain for no apparent reason.
I think I read something about Egyptians drilling holes into people’s skulls to cure sinus congestion. Like I get sinus headaches too sometimes and they suck but damn.
invention of stainless steel for sterile instruments
Antibiotics
At last, a cure for the French disease, if not the French themselves
Opioids and the contraceptive pill were invented in Belgium. Mix in a few of our beers and you never have to have sober sex ever again.
Invented the vaccine for typhus and polio, discovered vitamins, discovered adrenaline
Implantable pacemaker (1958)
https://preview.redd.it/23j9tk1dwytd1.png?width=1448&format=png&auto=webp&s=e00f865d68a7e679f29d14556c3cf351a819233f
Something about measuring skulls and stuff. Nothing important 🤷🏼♀️
If I speak, I’m in trouble
Some fellas figured out if you drink enough whiskey then problems go away so that’s our contribution sorted
Explosions 😀
And pacemakes
https://preview.redd.it/jtv66ytvxytd1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96e69c20bf6097d147667dd17d12e761e29cb340
The idea of medicine as a whole, I find it funny when people take the Hippocratic oath and live on the other side of the planet and never have heard of the guy.
Semmelweis discovered that disinfecting your hands after playing with the dead and/or fatally ill before you fiddle around a birthing woman’s vulva was a rather splendid idea.
https://preview.redd.it/b84uae8x0ztd1.jpeg?width=984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5eb72305c164222c379cdf1fcf6ea8961ec9bc4e
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, nobel of medicine, father of neuroscience and absolut unit as he also practiced weightlifting