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Aloe
Vera has been used
medicinally for thousands of years. Egyptian
carvings dating back 6,000 years show aloe vera
being used, and use of the plant is recorded in
the writings of early cultures in India and
China. |
Joseph
Lister discovered that sterilizing
surgical areas, instruments and surgeons' hands
reduced post-surgical infection and death
dramatically. He called the practice of such
sterilization antiseptic surgery. |
Lucy
Beaman Hobbs Taylor became the first woman in the U.S. (and probably
the world) to receive a doctorate in dentistry on
February 21, 1866, and went on to practice
successfully for twenty years. |
Samuel
Jay Crumbine served on the Kansas
State Board of Health from 1899 to 1923, during
which time he led a number of well-known public
health campaigns, including: "Ban the Public
Drinking Cup," "Swt the Fly," and
"Don't Spit on the Sidewalk." |
Béla
Schick developed the Schick Test,
whichinvolved injecting a small amount of
diphtheria toxin under the skin; the extent of a
child's immunity to the disease could be
determined by the presence or absence of a
reaction around the injection site. |
Sylvester
Graham advocated a lifestyle that
included abstinence from sex except for
procreation, sleeping on hard mattresses, and a
strictly vegetarian diet. As part of that diet he
invented a special whole wheat flour, from which
he made the first Graham Crackers. |
Albert
Bruce Sabin was influenced to study
polio by an epidemic of that disease that hit New
York City in 1931. He began testing a live-virus
vaccine in 1954, and by the 1970's that vaccine
had succeeded in nearly eradicating polio from
the world. |
Klinefelter
Syndrome describes a group of symptoms found in
some men with an extra X chromosome. Every man
who exhibits symptoms of Klinefelter Syndrome has
an extra X chromosome, but not every male who has
the extra chromosome exhibits symptoms. |