I NEVER said that all inventions were done in the US.
Hipe replacements??? The earliest recorded attempts at hip replacement (Gluck T, 1891), which were carried out in Germany, used ivory to replace the femoral head (the ball on the femur).[3]
“In 1940 at Johns Hopkins hospital, Dr.Austin T. Moore (1899-1963), an American surgeon, reported and performed the first metallic hip replacement surgery. The original prosthesis he designed was a proximal femoral replacement, with a large fixed head, made of the Cobalt-Chrome alloy Vitallium. It was about a foot in length and it bolted to the resected end of the femoral shaft (hemiarthroplasty). This was unlike later (and current) hip replacement prostheses which are inserted within the medullary canal of the femur. A later version of Dr. Moore’s prosthesis, the so-called Austin Moore, introduced in 1952 is still in use today.”
CT scanners ( and by the way CT refers to a method of analysis the first idea for which was done in the early 1900s by an Italian):
“The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in Hayes, United Kingdom at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-rays. Hounsfield conceived his idea in 1967,[6] and it was publicly announced in 1972. Allan McLeod Cormack of Tufts University in Massachusetts independently invented a similar process, and both Hounsfield and Cormack shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine.[7]” ( NB that these are considental discoveries i.e. not delayed by time or effort)
Defib??:
“Defibrillation was first demonstrated in 1899 by Prevost and Batelli, two physiologists from University of Geneva, Switzerland. They discovered that small electric shocks could induce ventricular fibrillation in dogs, and that larger charges would reverse the condition.
The first use on a human was in 1947 by Claude Beck,[1] professor of surgery at Case Western Reserve University. Beck’s theory was that ventricular fibrillation often occurred in hearts which were fundamentally healthy, in his terms “Hearts are too good to die”, and that there must be a way of saving them. Beck first used the technique successfully on a 14 year old boy who was being operated on for a congenital chest defect. The boy’s chest was surgically opened, and manual cardiac massage was undertaken for 45 minutes until the arrival of the defibrillator. Beck used internal paddles on either side of the heart, along with procainamide, an antiarrhythmic drug, and achieved return of normal sinus rhythm.”
As to Pantridge who gave us the first portable defib device look at his education:
“After his liberation he worked as a lecturer in the pathology department at Queen’s University, and then won a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he studied under Dr. F.N. Wilson, a cardiologist and authority on electrocardiography.”
So go do some research before you hurt yourself further
Thanks, I have. And already admitted any errors.
I pointed out that hip replacement referred to in my earlier post was the modern variety.
CT Scanner?. Hounsfield had already built a rudimentary machine in 1967 at the time of his research. McCormack didnt build one until 1971.
Defibrilliation?. Perhaps whilst I ‘go away and research’, you should go away and learn to read. I said portable defibrillator. Which Pantridge invented in Belfast in 1957.
As for his background, I am aware of it, but so what?. His time in the US hardly is grounds for any American claim on the invention. A look at his background shows that his work on the machine, at least in theory, started in 1945 when he was a lecturer in Belfast. BEFORE he went to America.
BTW, if werent saying all were US, quite what was the point of your ‘Soviet’ post?.
The bottom line is that you originally claimed Britain in recent history hadnt and hasnt been at the forefront of medical invention, research and breakthroughs. I have proved that Britain, since WW2, has been at that forefront.
America undoubtedly has been THE leader in the field in the last 50-60 years since ww2. But guess who has been no 2?.
We have every right to be proud of what we have given the world in that field in the time we are talking about. Britain has given the world some of its greatest recent inventions, breakthroughs and discoveries.
End of.