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Medicine's Ten Greatest Discoveries

jshauser at flash.net jshauser at flash.net
Thu Aug 27 09:15:23 EST 1998


In article <f%aF1.3843$Z_4.4742494 at tor-nn1-ca>,
  "David Lloyd-Jones" <dlj at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> jshauser+AEA-flash.net wrote in message
+ADw-6s2qgr+ACQ-9nu+ACQ-1+AEA-nnrp1.dejanews.com+AD4-...
>
> +AD4-Well my vote goes to Florence Nightengale for recognizing the importance
of
> +AD4-educated nurses in the care of the sick and dying in hospitals and
> +AD4-documenting her work as one of the first epidemiologists. She is the
> pioneer
> +AD4-and founder of modern nursing in the world. There is little doubt in my
> mind
> +AD4-that without educated and professional nurses delivering care to patients
> and
> +AD4-carrying out orders from physicians modern healthcare would not be what
it
> is
> +AD4-today+ACE- Her contribution to medicine is not as +ACo-glittzey+ACo- but
nonetheless as
> +AD4-profound..jsh
> +AD4-
>
> Bravo+ACE-
>
> And then there's Semmelweiss who made the radical discovery that it helped
> when obstetricians and surgeons washed their hands.
>
>                                                      -dlj.

Yes, you are correct. jsh

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