Science Odyssey - Doctor Over Time
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See how three different illnesses were diagnosed and treated in 1900, 1950, and 1998. Through the years new and better drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tools have been developed. What was a death sentence in 1900, is completely treatable today.
Doctor Over Time also includes background information on the following famous medical researchers and their discoveries: Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin, Alexander Fleming and penicillin, Ernst Chain, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Percy Julian. The first successful kidney transplant and the development of drugs for leukemia and transplants is also discussed.
