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The history of chemotherapy involves two men that after attending medical school were hired to research mustard gas and chemotherapy during World War I in 1946. Goodman had published his discoveries in chemotherapy which started the use of chemotherapy as standard cancer treatment and had written the text book co-authored with Alfred Gilman. Gliman also wrote a text book that he had co-authored with Louis Goodman about pharmacology, his main front of research. (Hx of Chemo). In cancer therapy,
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Claude Schaeffer Beck(1894-1971) was a pioneer American pioneer cardiac surgeon, famous for inovating various cardiac surgery technics, and preforming the first difibrillation in 1947.
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Acetaminophen is a common analgesic and antipryretic drug that is used for the relief of fever, headaches, and other minor aches and pains.
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Sir Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley was born an English ophthalmologist who invented the intraocular lens and pioneered intraocular lens surgery for cataract patients.
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This inffectious viral disease attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system often causing muscle wasting, paralysis, and even death. Jonas Saulk had introduced a way to prevent Polio.
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John Heysham Gibbon was widely recognized for his pioneering efforts in surgery and the invention of the heart/lung bypass machine and preformed the first open heart surgery.
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Llyod Conover invented Tetracycline the antiobiotic which became the most widely prescribed broad spectrum antibiotic in the United States within 3 years.
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William Grey Walter an American born British Neurophysiological and robotician. He had developed the first brain topography machine based on EEG.
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Min Church Chang also M.C. Chang was a Chinese born American reproductive biologist. He field of specialty was the fertilization process mammalian reproduction.
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CPR stands for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation which is a specialized and advanced field of first aid techniques which involves life support through rescue breathing and assisting in atificial circulation through a series of chest compressions.
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John Charnley born in Bury, Lancashire was born a British Orthopedic Surgeon who pioneered the hip replacement operation which is now one of the most common operations both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the wolrd.
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The development of the first successful live attenuated vaccine against measels began in the labratory of John Enders, one of the greatest virologists of the 21st Century.
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