Medicine
- Reuben Ottenberg performs the first successful human blood transfusion using blood typing and cross-matching at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
- Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness.
- George Soper identifies "Typhoid Mary" Mallon as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid in New York.
- Dengue fever becomes the second disease shown to be caused by a virus.
Read more about this topic: 1907 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)