3 medical sensation of open unscrupulous doctors

Despite the sacred duty of the doctor is often the case that doctors are harmful. But sometimes, oddly enough, a complete disregard for the safety of the patient led to impressive medical discoveries.

1. Leprosy is treated with a drug that causes congenital defektov

Leprosy makes people like a zombie: a disease not only causes the body to move away from the bone, like lettuce, but also causes severe pain, which is why patients can hardly sleep. If the universe has decided to make you a leper, she will make sure that you have not missed a single minute.

In 1984, Dr. Jacob Sheskin treated one such accident. However, this tool has been Thalidomide - banned in world medicine, causing horrible birth defects. The reason Sheskin decided on this is unclear, perhaps the doctor could not feel comfortable writing a hopelessly sick a bottle of whiskey.



Anyway, after three days of application of thalidomide patient is not just felt well rested - his ulcers have almost disappeared. Sheskin, ignoring a ban on the drug accidentally stumbled upon an effective means of treatment of leprosy, which is used today.

2. Gastroenterology was invented from lyubopytstva



In 1822, the year of Alexis St. Martin got a bullet in the stomach of a musket, resulting in his stomach there was a hole the size of a fist.

Dr. William Beaumont, who undertook to treat the injured, decided to take this opportunity to observe what happens to the food placed in the stomach.



The good doctor to put chicken, beef steak, and a dozen oysters, and removed it all in a few hours already half-digested through all the same hole.

It may seem that such a procedure can be done only from the hopeless boredom or inclination to sadism. However, the experiment proved Beaumont pioneering work in the field of human digestive system since led to the discovery of a new component - hydrochloric acid - which helps the stomach to digest food. Because of this work, Beaumont considered the father of the whole field of medical science - physiology of the stomach.

Neuropsychology appeared after lobotomy epileptika



In 1933 Henry Moleyson fell off his bicycle and broke his head. The fall cost him two decades of epileptic seizures. Epilepsy is difficult to treat, even today, but at that time it was considered incurable at all.



After several years of attacks Moleyson became a patient of Dr. William Beecher Scoville. The doctor found that Moleysona damaged parts of the brain such as the cortex and hippocampus entorialnaya. In accordance with the medical practice of the time Scoville decided to just break their links with other parts of the brain.

Technically, the operation was successful, as epilepsy was cured. But the result was a curious side effect: Moleyson was not able to learn new things. So he spent the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital ward observations, it is not able to remember, for example, the death of his wife and younger brother.

So Scoville first found experimental confirmation of the obvious connection between all areas of the brain. Hence originates modern neuropsychology.

via factroom.ru