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  2. Letitia Mumford Geer - Wikipedia

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    On February 12, 1896, Geer filed for a patent for the one-handed medical syringe design. [5] Her design was given a patent three years later under the publication number 'US622848A', in 1899. [5] Some hospitals prefer to use other methods. At the time, there were also other companies that started to produce syringes that were copies of Geer's ...

  3. Charles Pravaz - Wikipedia

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    Measuring 3 cm (1.18 in) long and 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter, his syringe was entirely in silver, [2] made by Établissements Charrière, and operated by a screw (rather than the plunger familiar today) to control the amount of substance injected. The Scottish doctor Alexander Wood invented the syringe as used today - also in 1853. Wood's device ...

  4. List of Spanish inventors and discoverers - Wikipedia

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    Santiago Ramón y Cajal fathered modern neuroscience and was the first person of Spanish origin to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906). This is a list of inventors and discoverers who are of Spanish origin or otherwise reside in continental Spain or one of the country's oversees territories.

  5. Manuel Jalón Corominas - Wikipedia

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    Manuel Jalón Corominas (Logroño, 31 January 1925 – Zaragoza, 16 December 2011) [1] was a Spanish air force officer, aeronautical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He was awarded patents for improvements to the mop and the disposable syringe .

  6. List of pre-Columbian inventions and innovations of ...

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    Also called pine beer and nettle beer, it was most likely originally brewed by First Nations, and predates the arrival of Europeans. [42] Squash – the people of southern Mexico were the first to grow squash. Squash along with maize (corn) and beans represented the three sister crops of the ancient Mesoamericans.

  7. Syringe - Wikipedia

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    Disposable syringe with needle, with parts labelled: plunger, barrel, needle adaptor, needle hub, needle bevel, needle shaft According to the World Health Organization, about 90% of the medical syringes are used to administer drugs, 5% for vaccinations and 5% for other uses such as blood transfusions. [1]

  8. List of Spanish inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    A worldwide used "two-piece" disposable syringe (1978) by Manuel Jalón Corominas (1925–2011) [21] [22] Use of Radiology and Radiotherapy for diagnostics by Celedonio Calatayud (1880-1931). [23] Animal Testing, first recorded use of animals for medical testing was done by Ibn Zuhr, known as Avenzoar, (1094–1162).

  9. Alcohols (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Ablysinol (a brand of 99% ethanol medical alcohol) was sold from $1,300 to $10,000 per 10-pack [Give volume amount please] in 2020 due to FDA administrator action granting exclusivity when used for treating hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy with alcohol septal ablation in the US through 2025, despite "misuse" of the orphan drug act.