I had learned lots of information from the website "animal research.info", which has many medical researches. From 1940s to 1950s, there are many medical researches were recorded in our culture. For instance, in 1940, Florey and Chain first tested the effects of penicillin in mice, carrying out a simple test to find out whether penicillin protected mice against the effects of bacteria. By 1941, penicillin was being used to treat dying soldiers. And this research won the Nobel Prize in 1945. In addition, Corwin Hinshaw and William Feldman took the streptomycin samples and cured tuberculosis in four guinea pigs with it. Hinshaw followed these studies with human trials that provided a dramatic advance in the ability to stop and reverse the progression of tuberculosis. This research led to the first effective treatment - streptomycin. And we knew that tuberculosis was one of the commonest causes of death in a hundred years ago.
In the 1950s, about 5,000 people who develop kidney failure every year in the UK, one in three would die without a kidney transplant. Joesph E. Murray developed kidney transplant techniques while working on pigs and dogs through out the 1950's. Soon human patients were getting the operation but a flaw still remained: many patients new kidneys were 'rejected' by their body. Basically, if the kidney was not a perfect match, the body would see it as a foreign object and attack it. In addition, the research of using monkeys and mice led to the introduction of the vaccines, which has saved millions of lives.
I like this one. Through it I learned some information about medical researches that is a important process to save human lives; However, the process is deplorable for animals. what do you think about their behaviors that test in the animals?
ReplyDeleteUsing animals to do research is not a good thing, but we still have to , because many medical researches should be tested before using it on human beings.
DeleteThe post is clearly. It use many examples to decrible medical research. Let the content easily be digestED, and felt it was not a boring topic.
ReplyDeleteYes, this is a fascinating post! A lot of great information, and I really enjoyed reading it!
ReplyDeleteI think it's pretty amazing what researchers discovered that has advanced our abilities in medicine. Many important things happened in the 40s and 50s!
Can you imagine how medicine would be today without these advances in research and practice?