- Cotton Mather, Smallpox Inoculation, Boston, MA, 1721
- Samuel Adams & John Hancock, First Medical Society, Boston, MA, 1781
- Harvard Medical School, Early Medical School, Boston, MA, 1782
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Ether Dome, Teaching Hospital, Boston, MA, 1811
- William T.G. Morton & Dr. John Warren, First Anesthesia for Surgery, Boston, MA, 1846
- Dr. Lydia Folger Fowler, First American Female Medical Doctor, Nantucket, MA, 1850
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler, First African-American Female Medical Doctor, Boston, MA, 1864
- Clara Barton, Nurse & American Red Cross Founder, North Oxford, MA, 1881
- Alfred Bosworth, First Infant Formula, Boston, MA, 1919-20
- Philip Drinker & Dr. Louis Agassiz Shaw, First Development & Use of Iron Lung, Boston, MA, 1928
- Robert Gross, First Surgery on Congenital Heart Defect, Boston, MA, 1938
- Joseph Murray, First Organ Transplant Surgery, Boston, MA, 1954
- Dwight Harken, First Artificial Heart Valve Surgery, Boston, MA, 1960
- Barouh Berkovits & Dr. Dwight Harken, First Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker, Boston, MA, 1966
- Dr. Ioannis Yannas & Dr. John F. Burke, First Artificial Skin for Burn Victims, Boston, MA, 1981-82
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