Accidental Medical Discoveries by Winters, Robert W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Preface Part I Surgery and Anesthesia

1. The Gleam of Cold Steel: Surgery without Anesthesia 2. Ether and Nitrous Oxide: Blessed Relief 3. Chloroform: The Clergy Objects 4. Cocaine Anesthesia: Freud’s Favorite

Part II Implants

5. The Artificial Lens: A Legacy of Wartime 6. Good as New: Dental Implants

Part III Drugs that Affect the Blood

7. Vitamin K: Began with a Bleeding Chick 8. Dicumarol and Warfarin: Began with a Bleeding Cow

Part IV Drugs that Fight Infection

9. Smallpox: The Cure of a Lesser Evil 10. Penicillin: The Crucial Role of Weather 11. Streptomycin: A Major Dispute 12. Cephalosporins: Something in the Sewage 13. Peptic Ulcers: A Discovery in an Empty Lab

Part V Drugs that Affect the Heart

14. Nitroglycerin and Amyl Nitrite: Boom! 15. Digitalis: The Shropshire Woman and the Foxglove 16. The Tranquilizers: Two Chance Discoveries 17. LSD: A Mind-Blowing Accident 18. Lithium: The First Guinea Pigs … Were Guinea Pigs! 19. Thorazine: A Cure from Curare

Part VI The Vitamins (vit(al) amines)

20. The Naming of Vitamins: The Vital Missing Pieces 21. Vitamin B1: Brown Rice Cures Beriberi 22. Vitamin C: Another Battle for Priority 23. Vitamin D: Bowlegged Lion Cubs

Part VII Other Medical Discoveries

24. Insulin: The Role of Insomnia 25. Viagra: A Pleasant Surprise 26. X-rays: Bertha’s Hand

Afterword: Acceptance of New Discoveries About the Author Index

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