Accidental Medical Discoveries How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

Name: Accidental Medical Discoveries How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World
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ISBN: 9781510712478

ISBN-10: 151071247X

ISBN-13: 9781510712478

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert W. Winters

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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.…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/22/2016
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 288
Language: English