Life and Death

John Durbin Husher

Description

This book covers Life and Death but is mainly about Life. It covers the five worse causes of death in the history of mankind and what has been done to prevent a repeat of these causes. This story covers the dramatic efforts since the eighteenth century by key individuals to overcome illness and extend the life of man. It takes you to the present time (2015) and what is being done to overcome many of the everyday illnesses and the death threatening ones. Many readers will find information that is valuable to them in taking action to help prevent or resolve their medical problems.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Médecine Générale
• Medical
• Medical history
• Medicine
• History of medicine

Informations

• Publié par: LitPrime Solutions
• Date de parution: 02 juin 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781954886841
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Originally Copyrighted in 2015 and Republished in 2021 John Durbin Husher. All rights reserved.
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Published by LitPrime Solutions 06/02/2021
ISBN: 978-1-954886-82-7(sc)
ISBN: 978-1-954886-83-4 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-954886-84-1(e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021913271
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Contents
Introduction
Overview
Non evolutionary Death—War and Disease The Great Famine (1315–17) The Black Death (1346–51) The Next Big Calamities: World War I and the Flu Pandemic World War I The 1918 Flu Pandemic—End of the War to December 1920 Total Casualties
Evolutionary Increases in Life Expectancy
General Summary of Disease
Major Progress Begins The Printing Press The Alphabet The Microscope—He Polished His Lens to Make a Better Microscope. Improvements in the Microscope, up to the Present
Microscopes and the Men Who Used Them to Conquer Diseases Spallanzani—Middle of the Eighteenth Century Pasteur—Middle of the Nineteenth Century Koch—Late Nineteenth Century Metchnikoff and the Phagocytes—Early Twentieth Century
Other Microbe Hunters Gregor Mendel and Genetics Charles Darwin: The Theory of Evolution The Importance of Human Hygiene
The Twentieth Century—War Starts the search for Causes and Cures of Infections Gerhard Domagk—Learn How to Overcome These Bacterial Diseases. Childbed Fever and Deaths Then Came France and a True Find—Serendipity at Its Best World War II and the Sulfa Drug Serendipity with a Fungus: Penicillin Polio and Jonas Salk
The Battle between Men’s Immune System and the Mutation System of Disease A Virus to Show the Way Man’s Problems to Solve: The Genes And The Search For The Genetic Code Amino Acids DNA and RNA The Double Helix
The Way into the Nucleus
The Genetic Code: Translation of RNA Code into Protein Number of Genes in the Human
The Human Genome
HIV and AIDS—How They Relate to DNA and RNA Recent Advances on HIV and AIDS
Ebola – Another Contagious Disease
Status of Actions Taken to Prevent Reoccurrence of the Five Major Elements of Death The Great Famine—Status as of January 2015 The Black Death—Status as of 2015 The Flu Pandemic—Status as of 2015 World Wars I and II—Status as of 2015
Life and Life Span
What Today’s World Presents for Life and Improvement Cancer Today’s HIV Actions Diabetes Prediabetes High Cholesterol Low Blood Glucose—Hypoglycemia Newer Add-On Drugs for Improving Blood Sugar Control
Foods to Not Eat—For Reducing Blood Pressure, Lowering Sugar, Improving Diabetes, Reducing Strokes, and Reducing Heart Problems Foods to Eat High Blood Pressure Strokes Heart Disease and Heart Attacks
Vaccines Vaccines—Also for Grown-Ups Outbreaks Summary of Medical Status
Stem Cells and Research Bone Marrow Transplant Using Stem Cells—Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) The Unique Properties of Stem Cells Embryonic Stem Cells—As Their Name Suggests, Are Derived from Embryos Adult Stem Cells Potentials for Human Stem Cells Similar to My Computer Programs My Thoughts Summary of Stem Cells
The Wonders of Extending Life Why the Technical Entities? Conclusion
About The Author
References and Credits



Introduction
T he book Life and Death covers both of these subjects, but it is mainly about life and living and the individual doctors and bio scientists who struggled to increase human life. This set the stage for actions that are proceeding as you read this book. There is no stopping the medical community and the technical community that support today’s medical advances. The reader will find it exciting, after reviewing the past, how much is being done today on a daily basis. The reader will find it exciting to read the details on the five major catastrophes that caused the loss of hundreds of millions of human lives, and further on in the book I cover why I don’t expect any of these catastrophic events to be repeated.
The major contributions to extending life are covered beginning in the eighteenth century with several key inventions and the constant energy applied to learning about life by key individuals. You will enjoy reading about each of these individuals and how they proceeded to make their marks on human history. Several technological advances during this time period aided the bio scientists in their quest to overcome death-causing phenomena. Although this is history, it sets the stage for today’s continuing battle against disease, further learning about the human body, and major technical advances that carry us forward in the battle. These more recent advances will be helpful to those who want to understand what is available today.
As a result of the discovery of the microscope, the war on disease went from a defensive one to one where humanity was on the offensive. Investigators could now see the “beasties” that were causing the problems, and his studies went from those that were sick, to one where the bio scientists were after the cause to prevent future sickness. The reader will be excited to learn of the medical advances presently being pursued by our scientists, bio scientists, doctors, and technical support efforts by major scientific firms. Present-day efforts are producing many new discoveries and medical advances that affect today’s people, including advances for children and new findings and cures for young adults and older adults over eighty years old.
By the turn of the twentieth century, major impacts had been made to the extension of life but there was still no understanding of how to deal with the major diseases, such as streptococcus and staphylococcus. Man could now see them, but there was no immediate answer as to how to prevent their destruction on life. After World War I there was a major impact on dealing with these and other diseases. Now one reads about the development of the first vaccines to attack and prevent many of the culprits. You will be excited by the war that developed on cures for diseases discovered in the twentieth century and continues on in the first fifteen years of this century.
Still, it was not known what made man function as he does. The search had been on since the beginning of time as to how a person is conceived and why each one of us is different from any other one. The search was on for the genetic code and the secret of life. The bio scientists had their initial thoughts, and when those didn’t work out they searched in different directions for the answers to life. It’s exciting to see how an American and three English scientists found the answers during the middle of the twentieth century. Their findings led them to the genetic code and understanding the code. They found DNA and RNA and how one worked with the other. This sets the stage for today’s major impacts on life and many of today’s cures and the continuous look for what the near future holds for us.
Follow through the scientific research that took the bio scientists’ steps from the code to the human genome and beyond. Now one could begin to review the genome of many species, how the various parts of the genome interact with each other, and possible cures with this knowledge. These are discussed on the up-to-date effects that are expanding and taking on today’s medical issues. The readers will be interested in possible impacts on their lives and the lives of their children and their friends.
And then there are new diseases that maim or kill many. Along came HIV and AIDS and the search for the cause and the search for the cure—if not a cure, maybe a delay. You will read how bio scientists had learned much from how DNA and RNA work, and how this gave them significant information on how HIV, AIDS, and hepatitis C work, along with today’s work on solutions. Anyone with these diseases will be quite interested in finding what is being done on a daily basis to overcome each of these and other massive diseases.
The twentieth century, mainly after World War I, resulted in bio scientists beginning to make major impacts on diseases and the prevention of them through vaccines. Many vaccines were discovered and invoked across the world. Details of the vaccines bring out many interesting facts and reactions. Many new medications were developed, and this book covers many that are presently used and those that provide even more help. Details are covered on many new findings that will be miracle cures for today’s population—and they continue on a daily basis. Perhaps there is an answer for one of the readers to find something about problems they have and the medications presently available as well as the vaccines to help each of you. One will see that even though there may not be an answer today for their problems that an answer ma