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television infomercials for cures the “medical establishment doesn’t want you to know about.”) As flimsy medical interventions c ...
NINE Anesthesia “The medical profession can be the greatest factor for good in America. The greatest asset of a nation is the he ...
eliminate pain, it would be a triumph. Of course, the advancement of medicine and surgery has been much more than the simple era ...
The cause-and-effect that is most obvious is rapid altered mental ability, like drunkenness or hallucination. Even the most incu ...
The Greek god of sleep, Hypnos (Somnus to the Romans), had many sons, but his son Morpheus was a god of dreams, delivering messa ...
absorbed, chemically changed, and metabolized in the human body. While most medications are absorbed, in varying degrees, in the ...
mathematics and philosophy.”^10 Instead of seminary, Priestley attended Daventry Academy, a school for Dissenters, and there see ...
in an airtight jar and the air was evacuated with a hand crank vacuum, the unfortunate creature would almost immediately keel ov ...
showed that it could not sustain a flame or keep an animal alive; however, plants thrived in the presence of fixed air. Joseph B ...
opportunity to learn the secret that was hidden within mercury’s powdery granules. When a scientist applies a flame to a crucibl ...
The pioneers of chemistry—Black, Cavendish, Rutherford, Priestley, and Lavoisier—foundationally discovered the gases that compri ...
It is prudent to consider the rise of chemistry in the 19th century since its advance improved the world so dramatically and so ...
Atlanta, the son of a prosperous merchant. After college in Athens, Georgia, Long attended medical school at the oldest medical ...
administered ether gas to young James Venable. Like all operations before the advent of antibiotics, the tumor resection procedu ...
sidewalk, you strain your eyes to see the structure that is ensconced behind the trees, up a slight slope. After trekking about ...
Horace Wells made the one-hundred-mile trip to Boston, relying upon a former partner to make an introduction to the medical lead ...
Morton practiced a more aggressive form of dentistry, likely influenced by his dental surgery professors in Baltimore. This resu ...
tooth without fanfare, emboldening him to approach the most respected surgeon in America. Given Morton’s experience of a single ...
awaited Morton, almost losing patience and proceeding in the usual barbaric manner. With Morton making the finishing touches on ...
In the end, Crawford Long did earn the accolades he deserved. One of the Emory University hospitals in Atlanta is named after hi ...
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