Introduction
Since the colonization of Australia on the 26th of January 1788 there have been many notable advances in the field of medicine, many of which occurred in the mid 1900's. These discoveries include that of pharmacologist and pathologist Howard Florey, cardiothoracic surgeon Victor Chang, paediatric oncologist John Colebatch and virologist Frank Burnet.
Howard Florey
Considered by many to have made the greatest medical discovery in Australian history, Howard Florey is remembered for conducting the first clinical trials with penicillin. Florey was born on the 24th of September 1898 in Malvern, Adelaide. He began his study at the University of Adelaide and sailed to the University of Oxford, England in 1921 as a Rhodes Scholar …show more content…
This was an immense undertaking which pushed the boundaries of science at the time as Florey grew up in a time were bacterial infections were easy to get but impossible to cure. Penicillin was also the first antibiotic successfully used in the treatment of serious infectious diseases such as staphylococci and streptococci.
This contribution to modern medicine and human health was so immense that honours and awards were showered upon him. The greatest of which was knight hood in 1944 and the shared Nobel prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming. Back home he was created Baron Florey of Adelaide University in 1965 and his face appears on the Australian $50 note.
Florey died on the 21st of February 1968 from a myocardial infarction, but thanks to his work an antibiotic era was started and an estimated 82,000,000 lives have been saved. Australia’s longest standing Prime Minister; Robert Menzies, went as far as to say that ‘in terms of world well-being Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia (ADB, …show more content…
He lobbied support and funds from politicians and businessmen to raise enough money to partly finance this heart transplant program and in 1983 the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute was the first centre in Australia devoted entirely to heart and lung transplantation. Changs’ centre quickly become World Wide News, not because heart transplantation was a new idea but because of the never before seen techniques and procedures he
Since the colonization of Australia on the 26th of January 1788 there have been many notable advances in the field of medicine, many of which occurred in the mid 1900's. These discoveries include that of pharmacologist and pathologist Howard Florey, cardiothoracic surgeon Victor Chang, paediatric oncologist John Colebatch and virologist Frank Burnet.
Howard Florey
Considered by many to have made the greatest medical discovery in Australian history, Howard Florey is remembered for conducting the first clinical trials with penicillin. Florey was born on the 24th of September 1898 in Malvern, Adelaide. He began his study at the University of Adelaide and sailed to the University of Oxford, England in 1921 as a Rhodes Scholar …show more content…
This was an immense undertaking which pushed the boundaries of science at the time as Florey grew up in a time were bacterial infections were easy to get but impossible to cure. Penicillin was also the first antibiotic successfully used in the treatment of serious infectious diseases such as staphylococci and streptococci.
This contribution to modern medicine and human health was so immense that honours and awards were showered upon him. The greatest of which was knight hood in 1944 and the shared Nobel prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming. Back home he was created Baron Florey of Adelaide University in 1965 and his face appears on the Australian $50 note.
Florey died on the 21st of February 1968 from a myocardial infarction, but thanks to his work an antibiotic era was started and an estimated 82,000,000 lives have been saved. Australia’s longest standing Prime Minister; Robert Menzies, went as far as to say that ‘in terms of world well-being Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia (ADB, …show more content…
He lobbied support and funds from politicians and businessmen to raise enough money to partly finance this heart transplant program and in 1983 the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute was the first centre in Australia devoted entirely to heart and lung transplantation. Changs’ centre quickly become World Wide News, not because heart transplantation was a new idea but because of the never before seen techniques and procedures he