Tag: endocarditis
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Dr. Gerhard Domagk and prontosil: Dyeing beats dying
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein Erysipelas infection in face due to streptococcal bacteria. Photo by CDC/Dr. Thomas F. Sellers, Emory University, 1963. CDC Public Health Image Library. Public domain. Dr. Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964) was a German pathologist…
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History of endocarditis
Ramin Sam California, United States Until the advent of the 19th century there had been autopsy reports of patients who may had suffered from infective endocarditis, but little was known of the disease and there had been no description of it.1 By the beginning of the 20th century, however, infective endocarditis had become a…