Medicine
- October - Australian-born British thoracic surgeon Norman Barrett describes the condition which will become known as Barrett's oesophagus.
- December 11 - The typical antipsychotic Chlorpromazine is first synthesized.
- Antihistamine discovered.
- An external artificial pacemaker is developed by John A. Hopps in conjunction with Wilfred Gordon Bigelow at Toronto General Hospital.
Read more about this topic: 1950 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
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“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)