The contribution of Jews to medical knowledge.
1. Freidrich Gustav Henle - Grandson of the Rabbi Feurth Germany. Loop of Henle, Henle’s membrane, Henle’s warts, Henle’s fissures, Henle’s sphincter etc.
2. Kaposi – sarcoma.
3. Unna’s – disease ( Seborrhic eczema)
4. Schamberg’s disease (Progressive pigmentary skin eruptions).
5. Lassars paste – Early substitute for Cortisone.
6. Wassermann – German Jew – Sero-diagnosis of Syphilis.
7. Ellie Metchnikof – Russian Jewish bacteriologist – Calomel in the early treatment of Syphilis. Nobel Prize.
8. Ernest Chain – Russian Jew (Isolating Penicillin). Nobel prize
9. Hans Krebs – German Jew - The Krebs enzyme cycle.
10. Otto Loewi – German Jew – Role of Acetyl Choline. Nobel prize.
11. Otto Meyerhoff - German Jew – Consumption of oxygen and production of lactic acid leading to fatigue. Nobel prize.
12. Konrad Bloch – German Jew – Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Nobel prize.
13. Selman Waksman – Russian Jew – Invented the term antibiotic. Isolated Streptomycin. Nobel prize.
14. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine – Russian Jew – Anti-Cholera vaccine
15. Tadeus Reichstein – Polish Jew – Hormones of the adrenal cortex, synthesis of Vitamin C. Nobel prize.
16. Jonas Salk – American Jew – First vaccine against Polio.
17. Albert Sabin – Polish Jew – Oral Polio vaccine.
18. Sigmund Freud – Moravian Jew – Psychoanalysis.
Albert Sabin gave us a lecture in the New Anatomy lecture theatre in ?1964
