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Hx Med Final Ch 18a
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Undergraduate 3
10/22/2008

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Ssobelew and Schultz
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understood the Islets of Langerhans are responsible for production of insulin
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Thompson
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first patient to receive insulin treatment
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Rich
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noticed serum sickness in some patients who had been treated for pneumococcal infections; described hx of hypersensitivity
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Pellagra
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maize just introduced from new world, found in poor residents of spain, noticed in asylum inmates, fixed by eggs and milk in diet
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Beriberi
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"I cannot;" found in rice culture of SE asia; weakness and heart failure
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Christian Eijkman
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noticed chickens dev. polyneuritis when fed white rice; brown rice fixed it
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Funk
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isolated active component of rice husks; named vitamine
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Starling
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coined 'hormone;' discovered secretin
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Langley
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separated NS into sym- and parasympathetic
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Dale
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disc. ACh and showed that it produced the same inhibitory effects as stimulation of the nerves
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Cannon
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studies effects of shock during WWI; coined 'homeostasis'
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Page and Rapport
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named serotonin (disc. by Erpsamer)
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Marker
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devised method to synthetically produce progesterone from plants
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Landsteiner
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transferred poliovirus from spinal cord tissue of boy to monkey; same disease in each
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1916 NYC Epidemic
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largest polio epidemic ever recorded - 9000 cases
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Brodie and Kholmer
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created immunization programs that caused several children to contract paralytic polio; severely criticized
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Salk
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1st polio vaccine from formalin inactivated virus - 100% protection
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Huggins
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hormone therapy; castration and female hormones improve prostate cancer
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Gilman
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1st non hormonal chemotherapy - derivative of Mustard Gas
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Farber
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folic acid antagonist (methotrexate) prevents chromosomal separation
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Hertz
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uses methotrexate (folic acid antagonist) in treating lung cancer secondary to choriocarcinoma (placental malignancy)
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Burkit
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discovers 1st infectious cancer cause; observes diet as affecting colon disease; his lymphoma common in Africa - endemic in tsetse fly belt - insect vector for Epstein Barr virus
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Gofman
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rabbits with damaged arteries had elevated LDL
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Kinsell
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substituting veg fat for animal fat reduces cholesterol levels b/c unsaturated molecule
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Atkins
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created high fat and low carb diet, fidiot
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Richard Doll
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associated lung cancer with cigarette smoking; pub. controversial report on asbestos and lung disease
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