Use of cocaine as local anaesthetic first introduced by Carl Koller, German Jew ... ether first demonstrated to the world in surgical operation by William Morton, Scot ... first successful operation on human heart performed by Daniel H. Williams, Negro.
Schick Diphtheria Test devised by Dr. Bela Schick, Hungarian Jew ... pioneer work in antiseptics by Henry Banga, Swiss, and many lives saved during World War through contributions to aseptic surgery of Alexis Carrel, French ... preventive compound for cholera and typhoid fever discovered by F. G. Novy, Slovak ... apparatus for electric blood transfusion perfected by D. J. Calicchio, Italian.
Charles and William Mayo, Irish, have made surgery almost as reliable a science as bookkeeping ... Charles McBurney, Scotch-Irish, discovered McBurney’s Point as a sign for the necessity of operating for appendicitis.
Discovery that the disease pellagra was due to faulty diet made by Joseph Goldberger, German Jew ... typhus and typhoid fever distinguished by Alfred Stillé, Swede ... human blood classified in different types by Karl Landsteiner, Austrian Jew ... research work in combatting syphilis and yellow fever by Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese.
Expert on infantile paralysis and meningitis is Simon Flexner, German Jew ... first removal of human ovary by Ephraim MacDowell, Scot ... one of the famous authorities on plastic surgery is V. Kazanjian, Armenian ... world authority on venereal disease is Vecki Victor, Yugoslav ... Edward Trudeau, French, began sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis ... Clifford Beers, English-Netherlander, founder of mental hygiene movement.
Discovery that mosquitoes carried yellow fever made by Walter Reed, English ... malaria driven out of Panama by General William C. Gorgas, Scotch-Irish-Netherlander ... first hospital in colonies founded by Dr. Thomas Bond, Welsh.
Physics
Our great electrical wizards have been: Joseph Henry, Scotch-Irish, who helped to invent the telegraph ... Charles Steinmetz, German-Polish, mathematical genius and electrical scientist, who had one of the world’s most inventive minds ... Thomas Edison, Scot-Netherlander, who invented electric light bulb and phonograph ... Michael Pupin, Yugoslav, who perfected tuning-in mechanism of radio.... Nicola Tesla, Yugoslav, who made extensive use of electrical power possible ... Vladimir Karapetoff, Armenian, inventor of electrical devices.