Ehrlich dreaming of targeted drug in 1907, 126
legislation preventing fraud and requiring review, 213–15
penicillin, 136
Prontosil, by Bayer, 127–29
Salvarsan (Compound 606), 126–27
sulfa-based antibacterials, 136–37
sulfa drugs, 137
sulfanilamide, 128–31, 134
Thalidomide disaster, 217
working in the bloodstream, 145
phenol (carbolic acid), 111–12
philosophers pondering the human body, xv
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton), 51–52
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 40
phrenology, 309
plants and animals, cross-reactivity of, 143
plastic (or polymer) implants, 230–31
plastic surgery, 304
Plummer, Henry, 255–56, 257
PMA (premarket approval) for medical devices, 216
PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate)/acrylic cement, 272
pneuma (a vital spirit), xix, 60
pneumoencephalography, 311
Poggio Bracciolini, xiv
polyethylene (HMWP), 274–75
polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)/acrylic cement, 272
polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE)/Teflon, 211–12, 271–72, 273
POP (pelvic organ prolapse), 304
poppy plants, 144
premarket approval (PMA) for medical devices, 216
Priestley, Joseph, 148–49
biographical info, 145–46
printing press
effects of, 22, 25
Gutenberg’s means for inventing, 16–17
and rise of surgery, 15
pro-drugs, 129
Progressive Party (political), 199
prosthetic mesh, 303–4
Ptolemy, 15
puerperal fever, 102–3, 104
sulfanilamide for treating, 129
puerperal fever believed to be in the air, 105, 106
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