Louvain, Brussels, cadaver found and restored by Vesalius, 31–32
lower motor neuron (LMN), 314
low friction arthroplasty, 271
Lucretius, xiv, 26
lysozyme, discovery of, 130–31, 132
M
Mainz, Germany, 16
Mall, Franklin, 174
Malpighi, Marcello, 65
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 152, 153, 154, 155
mastectomy development, 177–79
mauveine (azo dye), 126, 311–12
Mayo, Charles Horace, 253, 257
Mayo, William James “Will,” 253, 254, 255
elected president of the AMA, 256
promoting multi-specialty group practices, 256–57
Mayo, William Worrall, 253–54
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
first registry on joint prostheses, 219–20, 291
originally Saint Marys Hospital, 254, 255
stimulating growth, 255–56
testing streptomycin, 138
McBride, Earl, 194–95
McLaughlin, Harrison, 6, 10–11
McMinn, Derek, 218, 222
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 228
M.D. Anderson Foundation (MDAF), 227
MDL (Multidistrict Litigation) hearings for complaints against DePuy, 223–24
Mecca, 18
Medicaid, 198, 205, 206
Medical Device Amendments (1976), 216
medical devices
Dalkon Shield crisis, 216
design teams and process, 218–19
heroic gallantry and optimism in 1950s, 241–42
intellectual property, 218
invention of, 233–34
pre-1940s, 215
See also specific devices
medical industrial complex, 228, 232–33
medical training
and Flexner report of 1910, 182