Australian
Medical Inventions
From the humble inventions of stone tools and simple inventions for
everyday life, come the most useful and complex inventions that save
lives and prolong them, Australian's medical innovations from the
Electronic Pacemaker, the life saving application of penicillin,
physiotherapy and the Bionic Ear have certainly improved living
conditions and have saved countless lives.
The Electronic pacemaker, for example, is a device used to steady
heartbeat for someone with heart ailments was invented in Australia at
Sydney's Crown Street Women's Hospital in 1926. Without it, millions of
people would be dead or would live a hard life.
Howard Florey, an Australian scientist, and his team first discovered
and employed the use of penicillin; an antibiotic used to fight harmful
viruses and was used to cure syphilis. Penicillin is still widely used
today, mostly to cure common diseases.
The need to treat polio inspired sister Elizabeth Kenny, a nurse from
nurse working in country New South Wales and Queensland, developed a new
and controversial method of treating children with polio. Her work
started the foundations of what is knows today as
Physiotherapy, which is used to treat patients with bodily handicaps and
those who have suffered from stroke or heart attacks.
It was Australian Professor Graeme Clark at The University of Melbourne
who developed the cochlear implant. This device is used to treat
conductively deaf people who have damage to the outer or middle ear.
With it, 50,00 people over 80 countries have hearing.
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