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invention served to revolutionize the medical industry by virtue of its hollow sharp needles ability to administer medication. Numerous modifications later, the needle - which was originally made of
glass and had to be both sharpened and disinfected by hand - evolved to such an extent that by 1949, Arthur E. Smith had perfected the disposable syringe/needle that was
ultimately mass produced by Becton, Dickinson and Company five years later (Bellis, 2006). II. STETHOSCOPE Originally invented early in the nineteenth century, the stethoscope was created out of necessity
when physician/inventor Rene Laennec was unable to hear the heart of an overweight patient. Typically, putting the ear to ones chest was sufficient for gaining auditory access to the
hearts activity, however, this particular situation made it painfully clear to Laennec that he was ill-equipped to find out the true ailment of his patient if he could not hear
her heart. "Although some physicians felt the invention of the stethoscope weakened the physicians own powers of diagnosis, the stethoscope offered an immediate diagnosis at a minimal cost and
improvements on it continue to be made" (University of Iowa, 2006). Nearly one hundred years later, subsequent advancements in stethoscope technology have served to improve the manner by which
physicians can detect issues with the heart that previous equipment was unable to do, not the least of which includes twenty-first century development of the electro-stethoscope system (Makino et al,
2004) for utilization in "the early detection of the malfunction of an artificial heart at home" (Okamoto et al, 2004, p. 226). III. THERMOMETER Galileo was responsible for revolutionizing
many industries with his multitude of inventions, but perhaps none is quite as valuable to the medical field as his development of the thermometer. There was no viable way
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