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The 2016 American Society for Clinical Investigation Presidential Address
Believe the miracles: of biomedical science and human suffering
Levi A. Garraway
Levi A. Garraway
Published December 1, 2016
Citation Information:
J Clin Invest.
2016;
126(12)
:4716-4722.
https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI90893
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ASCI Presidential Address
The 2016 American Society for Clinical Investigation Presidential Address
Believe the miracles: of biomedical science and human suffering
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Medical science begins to render the miraculous into the commonplace.
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) Edward Jenner’s experiment paves the way for the first human vaccine. James Gillray’s 1802 caricature of Jenner vaccinating patients (right). (
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) Ignaz Semmelweis’s recognition that handwashing with chlorinated lime water could dramatically reduce the incidence of puerperal fever in maternity wards. Puerperal fever monthly mortality rates for the First Clinic at Vienna Maternity Institution 1841–1849 (right). (
C
) Robert Koch’s use of new tissue staining techniques to demonstrate that tuberculosis was caused by a novel bacterial pathogen. (
D
) Wilhelm Roentgen’s grasping of the significance of cathode rays on a paper screen in a dark room. (
E
) Theodor Boveri’s studies established the chromosomal basis for inheritance and first suggested that disordered chromosomes might cause diseases such as cancer. Image credits: Edward Jenner by James Northcote, © National Portrait Gallery, London, England (
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, left and right); Science Prof Online Science Image Library (
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, right); Boveri, T. “Zur Frage der Entstehung maligner Tumoren” Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1914 (
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, right).