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the Inventing of a printing press made it easier to make copies of medical notes and data
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Social/ Political Event: French Revolution
With the people getting injured more people had to get healed and so and advance of medicine was needed -
Rene Laennec developed the Stethescope.
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the inventing of computers helped advance medicine by creating a faster/ easier way to take medical notes and data
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made surgery easier
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Louis Pasteur
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Social/ Political event: American Civil War
everyone getting injured needed an advance to heal more people faster -
Joseph Lister
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Clara Barton
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(Not correct date but correct year)
Leonardo De Vinci is credited for introducing the idea. -
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen accidentally discovered this.
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Theh making of the airplane changed medicine because it made it easier to transfer supplies and the injured whether in war or to and from makers of supplies -
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the Model T was an affordable car that made it easier to transfer patients and supplies -
Vaccine for deadly upper respatory disease.
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Social/ political event: world war 1
the soliders getting injured needed more doctors and nurses looking after them and a advance in medicine to heal them faster -
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Creathed for patients with respiratory paralysis from polio by Drinker and Shaw
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National Council of Negro Women, a coalition of black women's groups that lobbies against job discrimination, racism, and sexism.
so that African American Women could have any job they want even in medicine -
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare but serious blood disorder
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Political/ Social Event: World War 2
with all the soldiers getting injured there had to be an advance in medicine in order to heal the injured faster. -
Previously’ the League of Nations Health Organization had been developed; however, it had been ineffective due to World War II
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Sidney Farber reported promising results in treatment of early childhood leukemia.
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Gibbon, who was training to be a surgeon, experimented first with cats: working in a Boston lab
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cat scratch fever, apparently caused by a cat bite or scratch and characterized by fever, rash, and enlargement of lymph nodes
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Jonas Salk
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one of the pioneers in the development of the cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator — and his colleagues describe the first application of a transthoracic pacemaker to patients whose hearts had stopped beating.
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The first successful human kidney transplant was performed by Joseph Murray and David Hume at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston
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made by Gregory Pincus
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Social/Political Event:
That men and women would get the same amout of pay for doing the same job; even in medicine -
an ad hoc committee at Harvard Medical School, chaired by Henry Beecher, suggested revising the definition of death in a way that would make some patients with devastating neurologic injury suitable for organ transplantation under the “dead donor rule.”
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Koenig and colleagues were the first to demonstrate the utility of glycosylated hemoglobin A1c concentration as a monitor of the degree of serum glucose control in patients with diabetes
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Edwards and Dr. Patrick Steptoe managed to achieve the first IVF pregnancy that successfully resulted in a live birth (of Louise Brown).
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Dr. William DeVries performed the first implantation of a permanent artificial heart. The patient, a 61-year-old man with end-stage congestive heart failure
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Marie-Claire King’s lab discovered the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 in the early 1990s; the discovery of BRCA2 soon followed.It was shown that breast or ovarian cancer will develop in most women who have one of these genes.
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Made all security highereven in hospitals -
100% efficacy in reducing the incidence of HPV-16-related cervical cancer nearly 1.5 years after completion of the vaccination regimen.
