1969 in Science - Medicine

Medicine

  • April 4 - Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implant the first temporary artificial heart.
  • Reported as being the year the first strain of the AIDS virus (HIV) migrates to the United States via Haiti.
  • The condition diffuse panbronchiolitis is named, in Japan.
  • International adoption of the diagnostic term 'Sudden infant death syndrome'.

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    Good medicine is bitter to the taste.
    Chinese proverb.

    Authority, though it err like others,
    Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
    That skins the vice o’ the top.
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    No medicine in the world can do thee good;
    In thee there is not half an hour’s life.
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