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Callaghan, John, 221
Camp, Walter, 281–82
cancer
anticancer medicines, 139
dedicated cancer hospital, 227–28
excising rectal cancer, 167
radical mastectomy, 177–79
Canon of Medicine, The (Avicenna), 20–21
cardiac device implants, 231–32
cardiopulmonary bypass machine, 236, 238, 328–29
Carter, Jimmy, 207
cartilage, evaluating slipperiness of, 270–71
cartilage and arthritis, 190
cartilage implant surgery, 296
Catholicism. See Roman Catholic Church
CDRH (Center for Device and Radiological Health), 216
cell as building block of life, 93–94, 96–97
Cellular Pathology (Virchow), 96
Center for Device and Radiological Health (CDRH), 216
Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington, England, 210–12, 272–75
Chain, Ernst, 132, 133–36, 137
Charles II, King, 45, 46, 52
Charnley, Sir John, 210, 211–12, 263, 268–75
chemistry
ability to make anything taste edible, 213–14
atoxyl molecule experimentation, 126–27
biochemical revolution in Germany, 127–28
Dalton exposes our universe’s structure, 149
discovery of dyes, 91, 125
as impetus for industrial growth, 91–92, 93
model of quantitative chemical investigation, 147
periodic table and complex molecules, 126
pre mid-19th century, 90
rise of, in 19th century, 149–50
stoichiometry, 90–91
studies of gases, 145–48
synthetic heroin with MPTP, 308–9
chemotherapy, 127, 129–30, 139
childbirth in hospital vs. midwife, 102–4, 105
chloroform, 157–58
Christianity, 16, 17
Civil Rights Act (1964), 198, 205