Dr Richard Lewisohn
American
Richard Lewisohn was a German-American surgeon notable for his contribution to Transfusion Medicine. - AsNotedIn
Richard Lewisohn was a German-American surgeon notable for his contribution to Transfusion Medicine. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1915/00/00 | At Mt Sinai Hospital in New York, Richard Lewisohn uses sodium citrate as an anticoagulant to transform the transfusion procedure from direct to indirect. A great advance in transfusion medicine, it takes 10 years for sodium citrate use to be accepted. | Physician | History of Transfusion Medicine | ||||
| 1947/06/00 | Dr Richard Lewisohn leads researchers at the Mount Sinai Hospital NYC on experimenting on rats with teropterin, an anti-cancer, folic acid antagonist drug extracted from brewers yeast. | Physician | Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment | ||||
| 1947/06/29 | Over the objections of team members, Dr Lewisohn's begins Ruth on daily injections of teropterin for 6 weeks. Ruth knew teropterin had rarely been used on humans, but asking no questions and apparently did not sign formal consent, as is required today. | Physician | Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment | ||||
| 1947/09/00 | In September, Dr Lewisohn reports Ruth's case study, without using his name, at a scientific meeting in St Louis. Word leaks that Ruth had received the innovative therapy. | Physician | French Apartments | New York City | Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
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