Mar
03
How do you feel history has improved medicine?
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sally j asked:


What leading icons in the history of medicine do you believe to have had a major impact on medicine today?

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Comments

Anna P on 6 March, 2007 at 3:21 pm #

Jennings–vaccination discovery, Salk for the polio vaccine (that averted an American medical crisis), Lister for sanitation methods, and that’s just “ancient” history. An unusual one would be the National Institutes for Health, which funded much of the progress of the post-WWII progress in medical care in the US.