By Andras Gedeon

The heritage and evolution of the fields of technological know-how and medication are symbiotically associated and hence are together based. Discoveries in a single area have allowed for development within the different, and it really is approximately most unlikely to check one zone in isolation. The effect of technological know-how and technologic discoveries on drugs has profoundly impacted the best way physicians perform and has ended in a longer existence expectancy and caliber of existence that our ancestors by no means dreamed attainable. technological know-how and know-how in drugs is a suite of ninety nine essays in keeping with landmark courses that experience seemed within the clinical literature during the last 500 years. each one essay encompasses a precis of the thing or bankruptcy; textual content and photographs reproduced without delay from the unique resource; a quick biography of the author(s); and a dialogue concerning the value of the invention and its next impression on later advancements. unique fabric through the likes of Dürer, Bernoulli, Doppler, Pasteur, Trendelenburg, Curie and Röntgen deals readers a unprecedented glimpse at guides housed in files worldwide, superbly reproduced in a single attention-grabbing volume.

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Paracelsus sees a unity between cosmos and medicine with chemistry as a means of improving practical treatment. 3). in perspective: After his death Paracelsus’ teachings were widely spread and heatedly debated for about a century. 5). 6). 7). 10) did ether gain general acceptance and widespread use. 1 Dioscorides P. De materia medica. Johannes of Medemblick Colle; 1478. See also Der Wiener Dioscorides. Codex Medicus 1,2 Akademische Druck- u Verlagsanstalt: Graz; 1998–1999. 2 Paracelsus. Der Buecher und Schriften.

6:7 Modern techniques for measuring evaporative heat and water loss from a new-born using thermistors and capacitive humidity sensors operated in a differential mode. 6:10 6:8 [6] Santorio 51 6:11 The experiments of Theodor Aschenbrandt in 1886 provide the first quantitative results on both the heat moisture exchanging and the filtrating properties of the nose and the upper airways. 6:12 The first heat moisture exchanger apparatus constructed in 1958 for conditioning inspired gas in posttracheotomy care.

The insensible perspiration in infancy and in childhood II. Proposed basal standards for infants. Am J Dis Child. 1930; 39:917. 6 Gréhant N. Recherches physiques sur la respiration de l’homme. Paris; 1864. 7 Aschenbrandt T. Die Bedeutung der Nase für die Athmung. Würzburg; 1886. 8 Ingelstedt S. Studies on the conditioning of air in the respiratory tract. Acta Oto-laryng. 131. 9 Koch H, et al. A method for humidifying inspired air in posttracheotomy care. Ann Oto Rhin Laryng. 1958; 76:991. 10 Gedeon A, Mebius C.

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