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Medicine's Ten Greatest Discoveries

tom c. cigolott at nbnet.nb.ca
Fri Aug 28 15:16:44 EST 1998


In message <6s347p$7rk at sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> -
sbharris at ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris) writes:

<<<<<<,,el snippola >>>>>>....


)   And in my mind also is ever the picture of Louis Pasteur, partly
)paralyzed by a stroke, leaning close to the face of a rabid and
)snarling bulldog held down by a lab assistant, in order to mouth-pipet
)a sample of saliva.  There were giants in those days.  I don't consider
)Jenner one of them.
)
)               Steve Harris, M.D.

Tis surely amazing how this fertile period of discovery [natural
science] has bin forgotten.

....and go figure those early biochemists who could figure out
complex organic molecules and d-l's with only testtubes and no
electricity.....and the list goes on





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