MEDICAL

ADVANCEMENTS
OF THE 1920'S
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920A. Lindbergh
 Aviator/scientist Charles
discovered how to oxygenize perfusion
fluid with compressed oxygen.
This was a good thing because doctors could
then use the fluid to replace lost blood in
patients temporarily.

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921and Charles
 Frederick Grant Banting
Herbert Best discovered insulin.
This helped to find a way for people with
diabetes, who before went into comas or death
when their blood sugar was at irregular levels,
to have a regular life.

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922
 Scientists Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and
K.S. Bishop discovered Vitamin E.
Vitamin E is an antioxidant, which means it
cleans your body in some way.

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923
 The valvutome was first used in surgery
on an 11 year old girl with mitral stenosis.
The surgery was performed by Dr. Elliott
Cutler, Dr. Claude Beck and cardiologist
Samuel Levine.

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924
There were not any large advancements
made that anyone has noted on the internet.

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925
 On May 6, 1925m Dr. Henry Soutter
performed a "digital" mitral
commissurotomy.
He used a camera to see what he was doing
better.

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 Physicians George Richards Minot and
William Parry Murphy discovered Vitamin
B-12, an effective control for pernicious
anemia, in the liver.
Pernicious anemia occurs when the body
doesn’t have enough red blood cells due to
not having enough B-12, an essential vitamin
for our bodies.

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927
There were not any large advancements
made that anyone has noted on the internet.

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 In the summer of928
1928 Alexander
Fleming discovered Penicillin, the original
antibiotic, by sheer luck and accident.
After he found the mold was deadly to
Staphylococcus, he grew it and tested it on
other bacteria, to which it was deadly.

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 German doctor Werner
Forßman(Forssman) created the
technique of cardiac catheterization.
He first tested the technique on himself by
putting the catheter into his arm.

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 THE MEDICAL
ADVANCEMENTS
OF
THE 1920’S
JON KOCH
JORDAN
Citations
 Vinas, Michael S. . "CHRONOLOGY OF MEDICAL/ TECHNOLOGICAL
ADVANCES." Perfline.com. 08 AUG 1999. 29 Jan 2009
<http://perfline.com/textbook/local/mvinas_chronol.htm>.

 Team C005846, ""The Roaring Twenties" - "The 1920's" - Science &

Technology." ThinkQuest.org. Copyright © 2000. ThinkQuest. 29 Jan
2009
<http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/science/science.htm>.
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