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A Third Revolution in Modern Medicine, Part One |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Wolfgang Sadee |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 11/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,560 Words, 16,075 Characters |
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In this two-part series, Part I covers the knowledge and technologies of the protein domain. Part II, in the December issue, will present the new protein drugs and the novel therapeutic approaches that they allow.
Historians of the health sciences contend that modern medicine came about in two revolutions of extraordinary magnitude and suddenness. With the first revolution came the understanding of the causes of disease. With the second revolution came the possibility of a cure.
Early in the nineteenth century French medical scientists paved the way for the first revolution with the introduction of modern diagnosis and statistics. This advance was followed by German scientists, who began to discover the causes of diseases. The isolation of the bacillus Mycobacterium tubercu...
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... structure, the stage is set for a new approach to understanding the human body and the causes of diseases. This understanding is the foundation for diverse and novel therapies now emerging from the laboratories. These innovations have occurred at an unprecedented speed over the past few decades, and there is no slowing down in sight. The effect on modern medicine will be equally dramatic.
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