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Greatest medical breakthroughs — Yourlist

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Greatest medical breakthroughs

a Yourlist ranking · the crowd decides the order

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What counts: Seeded with approximate figures where shown — the crowd's votes decide the order.

Vaccination▲ Rising
Era: 1796
added by IJRin 3 rankings
60
Penicillin▲ Rising
Era: 1928
added by IJRin 2 rankings
57
Anesthesia▲ Rising
Era: 1846
added by IJR
44
Germ theory▲ Rising
Era: 1860s
added by IJRin 2 rankings
37
Insulin▲ Rising
Era: 1921
added by IJR
30
X-rays▲ Rising
Era: 1895
added by IJR
3
mRNA vaccines
Era: 2020
added by IJR
-5
Organ transplantation▼ Falling
Era: 1954
added by IJR
-24

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BBruno Tanaka19h
Voted — and the gap between #1 and #2 should be bigger.
HHana Silva20h
This order is closer to right than any editor would've gotten.
PPaige Kim3d
The crowd is sleeping on the bottom half of this list.
RRosa Kim2d
Exactly the kind of argument the internet was built for.