1944
Medicine
Netherlands
Kidney dialysis
Willem Kolff treated patients with a rotating drum artificial kidney.
Why it mattered
The first successful artificial organ therapy.
Modern Era
1944
2 recorded milestones at this point in the record.
1944
Medicine
United States
Streptomycin and tuberculosis treatment
Waksman's soil-microbe antibiotic cured a leading killer.
Why it mattered
Opened the antibiotic search programme.
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