1971 in Science - Medicine

Medicine

  • October 1 - Godfrey Hounsfield's invention, X-ray computed tomography, is first used on a patient with a cerebral cyst at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
  • Boston Women's Health Book Collective publishes Our Bodies, Ourselves in the U.S.
  • E. G. L. Bywaters characterises adult-onset Still's disease, a rare form of inflammatory arthritis.

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