Terminator (movie series), 334–35
test-tube babies, 230
tetralogy of Fallot, 235–36, 237
Texas Medical Center, Houston, 228
thalamus, 319–20
Thalidomide disaster, 217
theory of opposites, 143. See also Galen
thumb replacement surgery, 293
Tommy John operation, 285–87
tornado damage in Rochester, Minnesota, 253
training. See medical training
transition movement (Muslim convert to Christianity translates Arabic works into Latin), 21–22
transplant surgery, 301–2
transvaginal mesh (TVM) implant, 304
Traumatic Deformities and Disabilities of the Upper Extremity (Steindler), 7
traumatic injuries in the future, 329
tuberculosis (TB)
overview, 186–87
Charnley and chronic sufferers, 269
Koch presents his findings, 118–20
mycobacterium tuberculosis, 184–85, 186–87, 269
patient with screeching hip prosthesis, 270
reoccurrence after shoulder implant, 189
in Rwanda, 183–85
sanitarium facilities, 269
streptomycin as cure, 138
tumor suppression gene, 317
TVM (transvaginal mesh) implant, 304
Tycho’s nova, 41
U
ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow, 285, 286
UMN (upper motor neuron), 314
United Network for Organ Sharing, 302
United States
overview, 135
Americans’s postwar prosperity and interest in health, 149
failure to maintain a national implant registry, 219, 225, 233–34, 290–91
financial support for pharmaceutical companies, 136
Florey and Chain work on penicillin at USDA labs, 135–36
University of Alabama, 198
University of Bologna, Italy, 28, 303–4
University of Kansas, 80–84, 196–98