Accidental Medical Discoveries
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Accidental Medical Discoveries

How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

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Accidental Medical Discoveries

How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

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About This Book

Many of the world's most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs: A plastic shard in an RAF pilot's eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses.
The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit's bone leads to dental implants.
Viagra was discovered by a group of chemists, working in the lab to find a new drug to alleviate the pain of angina pectoris.
A stretch of five weeks of unusually warm weather in 1928 played a role in assisting Dr. Alexander Fleming in his analysis of bacterial growth and the discovery of penicillin.
After studying the effects of the venom injected by the bite of a deadly pit viper snake, chemists developed a groundbreaking drug that works to control blood pressure. Accidental Medical Discoveries is an entertaining and enlightening look at the creation of 25 medical inventions that have changed the world – unintentionally. The book is presented in a lively and engaging way, and will appeal to a wide variety of readers, from history buffs to trivia fanatics to those in the medical profession.

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Publisher
Skyhorse
Year
2016
ISBN
9781510712478
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science Research & Methodology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface
  7. Part I Surgery and Anesthesia
  8. Part II Implants
  9. Part III Drugs that Affect the Blood
  10. Part IV Drugs that Fight Infection
  11. Part V Drugs that Affect the Heart
  12. Part VI The Vitamins (vit(al) amines)
  13. Part VII Other Medical Discoveries
  14. Afterword: Acceptance of New Discoveries
  15. About the Author
  16. Index