Gadgeteeringfor Health Care-The John W. Severinghaus Lecture on Translational Science

摘要

TRANSLATIONAL science, a new word coined to label the ancient practice of devising something helpful to the sick, long precedes the first physician-scientist, Paracelsus. In Basel, Switzerland, circa 1530, Paracelsus, the miracle doctor known as "the Luther of Medicine," introduced chemistry to medicine, destroying alchemy and discovering ether analgesia. Rene Laennec introduced the stethoscope in 19th-century France to avoid putting his ear on a bared female bosom. Although ether's introduction fits the translational science concept, Morton's inhaler does not, being closer to some of my "gadgeteering."