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VK2ZRG/TPK 1.83d Msg #:1279 Date:12-04-05 Time:10:16Z
Bob VK6BE wrote re the cochlear implant
>Well, David, I don't know about the claims of the NASA man but I do know
>that there was extensive publicity given to what was claimed to be a first
>in ear surgery with a cochlear implant (bionic ear) done on a completely
>deaf person in Australia. Here is a summary of a report on the Clark
>Bionic Ear, claimed to be a first and the invention of Graeme Clark.
>quote:
>"Professor Graeme Clark, AO. University of Melbourne. Treatment of
>deafness. Professor Graeme Clark is the inventor of the 'bionic ear' which
>is considered the most important advance in the history of the treatment
>of profound deafness."
>
>End of quote.
>
This story of the cochlear implant sounds a bit like the story of penicillin,
Bob, but in reverse.
Many people think that the wonder drug penicillin is due entirely to the work
of Sir Alexander Fleming. It was Fleming who is credited with the discovery of
the penicillium fungus or mould in 1928. But Fleming had little to do with the
development of the drug penicillin.
It was Sir Howard Florey, an Australian, along with his German collaborator
Ernst Chain, who gave the world the penicillin drug. Florey, the Professor of
Pathology at Oxford, started a study of naturally occurring antibacterial
substances in 1939. The penicillin mould was soon found to be the most
promising and work was begun to produce a drug for clinical use.
Fleming had done virtually nothing with the penicillium mould after its
discovery in 1928. Flemings' name is famous because of good PR.
Fleming, Florey and Chain shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
An interesting story I heard on the ABC Health Report was that it was the
penicillium mould that discovered Fleming. The story goes that Fleming went on
Summer holidays, leaving a window open in his laboratory. While the laboratory
was being cleaned up after his return, a Petri dish near the window, with a
staphylococcus culture on it, was noticed to have a mould growing on it with a
bacteria free area around it.
Now that is serendipity!
73s from Ralph VK2ZRG@VK2WI.#SYD.NSW.AUS.OC
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