Medicine
- Alzheimer's disease by Alois Alzheimer
- Morphine
- Prontosil by Gerhard Domagk
- Aspirin by Felix Hoffmann and Arthur Eichengrün
- Adhesive bandage by Paul Carl Beiersdorf
- Eucerit and Labello
- Pressure-sensitive tape by company Beiersdorf
- Cardiac catheterization by Werner Forssmann
- X-ray tube
- tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch
- Vibrio cholera by Robert Koch
- Koch's postulates by Robert Koch
- microscopic pathology by Rudolf Virchow
- diphtheria antitoxin by Emil Adolf von Behring
- Luria–Delbrück experiment by Max Delbrück (together with Luria)
- Arsphenamine by Paul Ehrlich (together with Hata)
- Intramedullary rod by Gerhard Küntscher
- Alcohol thermometer by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
- Homeopathy, discovered by Samuel Hahnemann
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Good medicine is bitter to the taste.”
—Chinese proverb.