He said this as he thought that better nutrition increased the resistance against infections and helped our immune systems to fight them. Although this seems logical, critics say that he doesn’t explain why females, who receive a smaller share of food, lived longer than males. Also how it doesn’t explain why infectious diseases such as measles rose. In the 1950’s improved medical knowledge, techniques and organisations helped to reduce the amounts of deaths. This was due to advances in not just the medical practice but the actual medicine used, for example there were advances in antibiotics.
Vaccination Important For Our Children Shinumol Sabu DENG102: English Composition I Tracey Mastrape 11/16/2013 Causal Essay “Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, that diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and non-serious diseases.”(Robert W. Sears).Nothing is more tragic than a baby or young child dying from a disease that could have been prevented from a simple vaccine. Vaccinations save lives. Diseases kill or disable young healthy lives and older adults whose immune system is breaking down.
In United State, one scientist named Henry Watterson heard about the bacteria and wondered if it might be a cure for Alzheimer’s so he decided to test the bacteria on five humans who had Alzheimer’s and compared the result with five other people with Alzheimer but not with the bacteria. In the test, the results were that Alzheimer disease destroyed this newly discovered bacteria first then the neurons and Henry realized that the subjects with the bacteria lost their intelligence and memory much slower than the subjects without it, but he did see that subjects with bacteria did loss a lot of energy. Tests on this bacteria are still happening today and even though the bacteria does slow down Alzheimer, many governments including the US ban the use of the bacteria until we know everything about the
War helped improve the knowledge also, as the Greeks set up hospitals to help the wounded. Like Hippocrates, Galen believed in the theory of the four humours, however he used opposites to balance the humours. Egyptians had ships arriving from other parts of the world to trade goods, and they brought new herbs and plants with them. This boosted their knowledge of herbal medicine and found more cures to create. The Egyptians didn’t have a lot of methods for surgery, and mainly relied on
Penicillin was a great move forward in the progress of the pharmaceutical company; it solved many doctors’ problems and was also a great treatment. The discovery of Penicillin came about form a bacteriologist named Alexander Fleming. I think Fleming was very important in the discovery of penicillin because he came across penicillin by chance, because he did not clear out the agar plate which held staphylococci in, over time this agar plate grew bacteria however Fleming noticed that in a certain part of the plate no mould had been growing because of some sort of substance, Fleming recorded his findings in notes. This means that he was important in the discovery of penicillin because he came across the penicillin and because he recorded his findings this meant he could share his findings with others. After he realised this Fleming arranged many scientific experiments and used his own knowledge to prove and find ways of the penicillin curing people and treating them however he could only proves this on animals because he did a series of tests on animals.
The virus can be found on the surface of the skin, cervix, vagina, anus, vulva, head of penis, mouth and throat. Since it is found in so many places it can easily be spread. HPV is not curable but is preventable. With people knowing this why is the vaccine intake rate so low? Is it because we don’t even know what HPV is or maybe it’s because we are not informed about the vaccine, or could it be we know about the vaccine but it’s too expensive for the average person?
Likewise, during the 20th century, when health officials have found victims of typhoid, they offered them related treatments and instead of isolating from the community, they respected their freedom and suggest them to avoid contact with others so they can stop transmitting typhoid to others. ---------In the event of an infectious emergency, most of the time the public health system is successful in controlling the situation, but in some cases they do fail as well. In 1947, a free mass vaccination effort was authorized by the New York City Health Department, which resulted in a lower mortality rate in New York City. In “‘BE SAFE.BE SURE.’: New York City’s Experience with Epidemic Smallpox”, Judith Walzer Leavitt explains, “ the Board of Health had learned to value citizen cooperation and to seek it in broadly acceptable ways, largely through publicity and convincing arguments” (415). The public health officials had spread the awareness about smallpox vaccination in New
This was particularly important in reducing the number of people dying from tuberculosis (TB). Because of this better and improved nutrition, the resistance to infections has also increased, as well as the survival chances of those who did become infected. However, many have argued Mckeown’s point of view, as it does not include or explain the reason,
And i think its super cool to see how far we’ve come since the last century. I mean, it is not that long ago children used to die from a disease like Pneumonia, And easily cured decease today. We have advanced so much in medical technology, that if you sustained a physical injury, and you don’t die immediately, that’s a good chance that you will survive. Of course we can’t performa miracles, but we can do a lot to help people adapt to the situation of being handicapped. The book ‘’Flowers for Algernon’‘ was written in 1958, and at the time considered to be a story of ‘’fact-fiction’’.
Forest Laboratories were charged with concerns that two studies were accomplished to help expedite the FDA’s approval of use of these antidepressants in treating young people. One study showed that the drugs were of no help to the young people and could even be harmful to them. The other study, which was financed by the company, showed positive results of the use of these drugs in young people. Since Forest Laboratories promoted the study that showed positive results, they hid the negative one from their own medical advisors and sales reps for three years. It was later surfaced when the New York Times published an article about it.