100 years ago, on October 30, 1901, the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded for the first time. It was awarded to bacteriologist and serologist Emil von Behring (1854-1917), who discovered diphtheria and tetanus antitoxin. He was also called the “savior of children” because they benefited from his findings in the 19th century, … Who was Emil Von Behring?
Sauerbruch was the leading German surgeon in the first half of the 20th century. He became known in 1904 at the 33rd Congress of the German Society of Surgery. There he introduced the “pressure differential procedure” he had developed, providing the basis for open-chest surgery. At that time, patients in torax surgery, as a result … Who was Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch?
He was also called the “savior of mothers”. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (born July 1, 1818) was a Hungarian gynecologist and discoverer of the cause of puerperal fever. This infection, accompanied by high fever (puerperal sepsis), took the lives of women in childbirth on an almost epidemic scale and was also known as “death of women … Who was Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis?
You’re probably familiar with muesli. Birchermüesli, an apple diet dish devised by Maximilian Bircher-Benner at the turn of the century, “d Spys” as he called it, is the ingenious implementation of his ideas. Diet according to Birchner-Benner His theory states that plant food contains the most solar energy and therefore is much healthier for humans … Who was Maximilian Bircher-Benner?
Opium, the dried juice from poppy capsules, was already known as a painkiller in ancient times. But how many active ingredients were contained in raw opium, and why equal amounts of opium often produced different effects, needed more detailed analysis. History of morphine It was not until 1805 that the groundbreaking isolation of the active … Who Discovered Morphine?
