- The 1930s Medicine and Health: Chronology - Encyclopedia. com
1934: Liver extract cures the fatal blood disease agranulocytosis 1935: The first hospital for drug addicts is opened in Lexington, Kentucky 1935: The public becomes skeptical about human vaccination when trials of a polio vaccine go wrong and several children contract the disease from the vaccine; one dies
- A Look Back At Old-Time Medicine - WebMD
Also touted for "weak hearts, weak blood, weak nerves" was a product called Anglo-American Heart Remedy
- Bleeding Disorders History: 2 AD to Modern Advances | NBDF
By the 1930s, it was discovered that diluting certain snake venoms caused blood to clot These treatment were used in patients with hemophilia By 1926, the US Surgeon General’s Catalogue contained an entire section on the use of blood transfusions to replace missing clotting factors
- Medicine and Disease in History: The 1930s Plague Pandemic
Beginning in 1894 and lasting until around 1950, a pandemic of the plague began to spread, wreaking havoc on much of the developing world
- Human health timeline: 1930s :: Understanding Animal Research
Blood clotting (coagulation) disturbs blood flow, and is essential to stop bleeding after a cut But clotting in the wrong place can lead to deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, heart attacks and strokes Anticoagulants are used to prevent or treat these Read more
- Before Vaccines, Doctors ‘Borrowed’ Antibodies from . . . - HISTORY
Doctors first tried injecting patients with blood plasma in the early 1900s The method has been used against diphtheria, the 1918 flu pandemic, measles and Ebola
- The 1930s Medicine and Health: Topics in the News
By the 1930s, many infectious diseases, such as typhoid, dysentery, and diphtheria, did not pose a major threat to public health But venereal diseases (VD), transmitted through sexual contact, were out of control
- The 1930s Medicine and Health: Headline Makers - Encyclopedia. com
Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943) Karl Landsteiner became an American citizen in 1929 and won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1930 His discovery of blood types, which are now categorized as A, B, AB, and O, made transfusions possible Landsteiner was also interested in polio
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