Accidental Medical Discoveries PDF

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Download PRETITLE Accidental Medical Discoveries [Kindle Edition] POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror linkSome important advances in medicine have come about as a result of chance conversations, fortuitous accidents, or plain dumb luck.

Accidental Medical Discoveries tells the stories of the origins of more than twenty-five of these major medical advances where chance or serendipity played a crucial role – including the following:

• An RAF eye surgeon, who sees a tiny plastic shard in the eye of a wounded pilot and is inspired to develop the first artificial lens;
• An Italian doctor fascinated by the swimmers in a polluted ocean discovers a new class of antibiotics, the cephalosporins;
• An unemployed orthopedic surgeon, preparing to teach a subject he knows little about, instead devises an experiment to isolate insulin;
• A Dutch bacteriologist observes a similarity between a disorder in chickens and one in man, which leads to the discovery of Vitamin B1;
• A gifted chemist looking for the cause of sweet clover disease in cattle, discovers the first anti-coagulant, dicumerol;
• A chance conversation with a zookeeper about lion cubs leads to the prevention of rickets in infants and children;
• London weather played a crucial role in the discovery of penicillin;
• A four-day lab holiday clarified the cause of stomach ulcers;
• Viagra, which had originally been developed as a treatment for coronary heart disease, went on to be a world-wide best-seller due to its unexpected side-effects.

Accidental Medical Discoveries is neither a medical nor a pharmacology treatise. Rather, it provides insight into how the famous discoveries described in this book actually came about. They all occurred by chance, and they all occurred because of a prepared mind grasped the significance of what had been discovered.

In the words of Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi, “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”Direct download links available for PRETITLE Accidental Medical Discoveries POSTTITLE

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Accidental Medical Discoveries PDF

When a retired professor of medicine spent seven years to write a book on accidental medical discoveries, we need to listen. Why? Because those discoveries contributed a lot to our well-being. Imagine you have to go through a surgery without the benefit of anesthesia, and the surgery involves removing a breast due to cancer, or cutting off a limb due to accident. The pain was beyond description. But the creation of `laughing gas,' a gas that made people giggle when inhaled, changed the game. Now we enjoy a visit to a dental office, since we don't have to scream when the dentist extracts a tooth from our mouth.

The author has spent twenty years at a prestigious New York City medical school, teaching and conducting researches. Though the title says `accidental discoveries,' not all of them were accidental. There were many unsung heroes who connected dots with insight and perseverance. History is meaningful when it is applied to the present. And there are many frontiers in medicine left for us to pioneer. This is a great book to read not only by doctors and medical researchers, but by ordinary people who enjoy examining the relationship between cause and effect.

By Young Lee

An informative,interesting revelation of medical discoveries written in
skilled literary style.Thought-provoking and appealing to a wide selection of readers.
Highly recommended.

By Dr. Mary Arnold