Medicine Project Page
The advances in medicine in modern times are absolutely mind-boggling. To think that just a few short decades ago we were still being crippled by simple viruses, bacteria, and debilitating diseases which today are preventable. The advances since the discovery of the first compound microscope (power 3X-9X) in 1590 by Hans and Zacharias Janssen, Dutch eyeglass makers and inventors, is almost unbelievable.
Less than 100 years later Robert Hooke English chemist mathematician, physicist, and inventor, improved the microscope, to the point where, in 1667 he discovered the role of oxygenation in the respiratory system. In 1665 Hooke wrote a book called “Micrographia”; where he coined the word cell to describe the features of plant tissue. He was able to discover this from looking at cork from Oak tree bark under his new compound microscope that he developed around 1660.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was a Wine Assayer, surveyor, cloth merchant, minor public official and inventor was inspired by Hooke’s "Micrographia". Leeuwenhoek was a man with many talents, great powers of observation, creativity, and ingenuity. He was a man without money or formal education who worked for a living. He became the first person to describe bacteria, protozoa, and helped prove the theory of blood circulation.
Today, at Monash University in Australia, Associate professor, James Friend developed a miniature machine powered by a small battery and piezoelectric motor that can be injected into the brain. This device will travel through the veins in the circulatory system and potentially clear out damaged tissue. Imagine a tiny little motor traveling through your brain clearing out the pathways for new life.
W3IG intends to bring you the latest and greatest developments in modern science and technology to improve our quality of life through medicine and other healthcare related items. Feel free to browse our pages and links; perhaps you will find answers that you seek.