# Medical Breakthroughs — The Big Steps That Saved Lives

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Category: Health
Slides: 13
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:39.072Z
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## Summary

The big steps that saved lives — from cowpox lymph in a country doctor's hand to messenger RNA folded by an algorithm. Two centuries of pushing back against death. Key sections include: MEDICAL BREAK- THROUGHS; Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox.; Morton ends the screaming centuries.; Two men kill the invisible killers.; Röntgen finds the "X" rays.; Fleming returns from holiday to a mouldy miracle.; A double helix on a scrap of paper.; Salk's vaccine ends the summer terror.; Barnard transplants a beating heart.; Louise Brown — the world's first IVF baby..

## Slide Outline

1. MEDICAL BREAK- THROUGHS
2. Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox.
3. Morton ends the screaming centuries.
4. Two men kill the invisible killers.
5. Röntgen finds the "X" rays.
6. Fleming returns from holiday to a mouldy miracle.
7. A double helix on a scrap of paper.
8. Salk's vaccine ends the summer terror.
9. Barnard transplants a beating heart.
10. Louise Brown — the world's first IVF baby.
11. Antiretrovirals turn HIV treatable.
12. mRNA vaccines, designed in a weekend.
13. Two centuries, one direction.

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