Florence Nightingale ( 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)
Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the
founder of modern nursing.
She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer
of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care
for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.
(FOX NEWS) – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agent saved the life of a 1-year-old boy Wednesday who
stopped breathing while in line at New York City‘s John F.
Kennedy International Airport.
The Department of Homeland Security said the ICE agent was
assisting TSA agents at the airport when he responded to a
medical emergency involving the child.
According to DHS, the young boy became unresponsive in the
arms of his father.
Security footage from inside the airport showed a passenger
in a TSA Precejcl line holding the boy.
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk
(above) announced that he had successfully tested a vaccine
against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease
of polio.
In 1952—an epidemic year for polio—there were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the
disease.
For his work in helping to eradicate the disease, which is known
as “infant paralysis” because it mainly affects children, Dr. Salk
was celebrated as the great doctor-benefactor of his time.
SANDY KOZEL
The German company Bayer patents aspirin on March 6,
1899. Now the most common drug in household medicine
cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a
chemical found in the bark of willow trees.
In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used
for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece
when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever.
Known to doctors since the mid-19th century, it was used
sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to
damage the stomach.
Aspirin was made available in tablet form and without a
prescription in 1915.
German chemist professor Felix Hoffman, the father of aspirin.
