Breakthrough!

How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World

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          Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Queijo, Jon, 1955-
Breakthrough! : how the 10 greatest discoveries in medicine saved millions and changed our
view of the world / Jon Queijo.
    p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-13-713748-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Medicine—Research—History. 2.
Discoveries in science. I. Title.
R852.Q45 2010
610.72—dc22
                                   2009051043

With love and gratitude to my parents, Anthony A. Queijo and June Dudley Queijo.

And a very special thanks to Rooshey Hasnain, who helped me every step of the way with her many ideas and her boundless encouragement, support, and caring.

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’”
—Isaac Asimov, American writer and biochemist

“That’s funny...”
—Alexander Fleming, on finding a moldy growth that led to his discovery of penicillin