who invented the pap smear
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Pap Test Developed By Greek Doctor A: The Pap smear or Pap test, a screening test for cervical cancer, was invented by Dr. George Papanicolaou in 1943.Papanicolaou, born in Kymi, Greece, began his medical career taking care of patients at a leper colony north of his hometown.he cells from the cervix are then analyzed by a cytologist who looks for precancerous and cancerous changes in the cervical cells. FYI: In the more than 50 years since the Pap test was widely adopted, the death rate from cervical cancer has plummeted by more than 70 percent.
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William Moulton Marston William Marston (right) in 1922, testing his lie detector invention. Marston is credited as the creator of the systolic blood pressure test, which became one component of the modern polygraph invented by John Augustus Larson in Berkeley, California.
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Who invented stethoscope? Best Answer: The stethoscope was invented by the French physician R.T.H. Laënnec. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec is generally considered to be the father of chest medicine. One day in 1816, Laennec is invited by urchins to hear to the scratching of a pin transmitted through the length of a wooden beam.
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The Invention of the Polygraph The Invention of the Polygraph. The lie detector—or polygraph machine–was first created by John Augustus Larson (1892-1965), a part-time employee of the Berkley Police Department who was earning his Ph.D. in physiology at the University of California at Berkeley.
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History of cancer In 1973, cancer research led to a cold war incident, where co-operative samples of reported oncoviruses were discovered to be contaminated by HeLa. In 1984, Harald zur Hausen discovered first HPV16 and then HPV18 responsible for approximately 70% of cervical cancers.
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Robert Chesebrough Robert Augustus Chesebrough, (January 9, 1837 – September 8, 1933) was an American chemist. He discovered petroleum jelly which he marketed as Vaseline and he founded the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company.hesebrough began his career as a chemist clarifying kerosene from the oil of sperm whales. The discovery of petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, rendered his job obsolete, so he traveled to Titusville to research what new materials might be created from the new fuel.
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Main Zacharias Janssen. Janssen’s invention of the microscope, with the aid of his father Hans, allowed English scientist Robert Hooke to use a primitive microscope to view the cell walls of a piece of cork in 1663.
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- The first known cases of smallpox go back to 1350 BC and the disease has been known for a very long time. Dr. Campbell identified how smallpox is spread. Edward Jenner is credited with developing the smallpox vaccine in 1796.e took a dairy maid who had cowpox (she had a pustule on her hand), took the … puss and sliced open a little boys arm and infected him with cowpox. Then he put smallpox puss in the cut and the boy didn't get it. in 1796, a man named Edward Jenner said this and everyone thought he was crazy but he was right.
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Syringe French physician Dominique Anel is usually credited with the invention of the kind of syringe used today. Anel was a surgeon in the army of French King Louis XIV (1638-1715). Anel created his instrument to clean wounds with suction. The first true hypodermic syringe was created by French physician Charles Pravaz in 1853. Made entirely of silver, this syringe held one cubic centimeter of liquid. Around the same time, Scotsman Alexander Wood devised a subcutaneous injection method.
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Pepsin A Pap smear (also called a Pap test) is a screening procedure for cervical cancer. It tests for the presence of precancerous or cancerous cells on the cervix, the opening of the uterus. It’s named after the doctor who determined that this was a useful way to detect signs of cervical cancer, Georgios Papanikolaou.
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World Cancer Day: The Greek Who Developed the Pap Smear Today is World Cancer Day, a global event dedicated in the fight against cancer, that aims at raising awareness and education about teh disease, and encouraging people across the world to take action against cancer. One of the pioneers in the field of cancer research was Dr. George Papanicolaou, inventor of the Pap Smear test for cervical cancer. Dr. Papanicolaou (known as Dr. Pap) joined Cornell University Medical College’s Department of Anatomy in 1914.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek: Biography, Cell Theory & Discoveries Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, the 'Father of Microbiology,' so improved the quality of the microscope that some people still think he invented the instrument. In this lesson, we'll learn more about this self-taught scientist, including some of his important discoveries and unique way of presenting his work.
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Rolf M. Zinkernagel Peter C. Doherty …immunologist and pathologist who, with Rolf Zinkernagel of Switzerland, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for their discovery of how the body’s immune system distinguishes virus-infected cells from normal cells.
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- The Pap technique was developed by and named after George Papanicolaou (1883-1962), a Greek-born physician and scientist who moved to the U.S. In 1923, while looking at vaginal smears from women with cervical cancer, Papanicolaou saw cancer cells.
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- The compound microscope was invented 40 years before Anton van Leeuwenhoek was born. He used a simple one lens microscope. More: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, (October 24, 1632 -- August 26, 1723) is known as the Father of Microbiology. He was from Delft, Netherlands.
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When was the smallpox vaccine invented? When was the smallpox vaccine invented?   Dr Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine in 1796 and published his findings in 1798. Edward Jenner invented the vaccine for small pox in 1798. He  prepared the vaccine f…rom the cow pox virus.
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Who is Ignaz Semmelweis and what did he do? Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865), also Ignac Semmelweis (born Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp), [1] [2] was a Hungarian physician called the saviour of mothers [3] [4] who discovered, by 1847, that the incidence of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever could be drastically cut by use of hand washing standards in obstetrical clinics.
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- I'm studying edward Jenner for my history exam on my birthday (': I'm in year 9 but this is what i know so far (: Edward Jenner was born in 1749 and passed away in 1823. He … wasn't a popular man before his discoveries, where after he was named the 'Fathe Of Immunisation'.dward Jenner invented/discovered vaccinations. he found out that when he gave somebody a small dose … of cow pox, (similar in its composition to small pox but non lethal) it made his patients immune to contracting small pox. He was a great man, one to be admired the world over.
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Taking A Pap Smear 1 George N Papanicolaou introduced cervical cytology in clinical practice in 1940. 2  George N Papanicolaou introduced cervical cytology in clinical practice in 1940. 3  In 1945, PAP smear was endorsed by American cancer society as an effective method for prevention of cervical cancer.
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- In 2014, a task force updated the classification system for reporting Pap test or smear results, called the Bethesda System. The Bethesda System terminology was originally developed in 1988. The 2014 review of the system incorporated minimal changes to the earlier version but refined some positions and content.
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Who invented stethoscope? Dr. Laennec was born in Quimper, Brittany and studied medicine at the Hôpital de la Charité, Paris qualifying in 1804. The stethoscope was invented by the French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec, about 1819. The modern stethoscope was invented by the American physician George Philip Cammann.
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Dr. Jonas Salk After being appointed head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh in 1947, Dr. Jonas Salk devoted himself to finding a way to curb the devastating virus. Less than five years later, he invented a vaccine and decided to test it out.
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Jonas Salk Jonas Edward Salk (/sɔːlk/ ; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine.n October 20, 1998, after 18 years of using the Sabin vaccine, however, the federal government recommended that children use the Salk vaccine exclusively. Sabin's polio vaccine is no longer available in the United States.
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Joseph Gayetty In 1900, an advertisement shows that B.T. Hoogland's Sons of New York were distributing the watermarked Papel Medicado De Gayetty and giving credit to the invention of the paper in 1857 by Joseph C. Gayetty, Inventor. Nearly the same advertisement was run in English in 1907. The product continued to be marketed until the 1920s.
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World Cancer Day: The Greek Who Developed the Pap Smear Dr. Papanicolaou was a founding father of the field of Exfoliative Cytology. His pioneer book on this field was “The Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology,” first published in 1954. In the 1940s, when the Pap Smear was first introduced, cervical cancer was the number one killer of women. The Pap Smear, now a standard cancer screening test for all women, has greatly reduced the death rate for cervical cancer patients worldwide. *Elizabeth M. Shepard is an associate archivist at Cornell University. 1  TAGS. 2  cancer. 3  cancer research. 4  Dr Pap. 5  George Papanikolaou. 6  Greek-American. 7  Pap Smear test. 8  USA. 9  world cancer day.
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