Understanding the history of a Biomedical scientist The WritePass Journal

Understanding the history of a Biomedical scientist Introduction Understanding the history of a Biomedical scientist IntroductionConclusionRelated Introduction If one was to ask someone what a biomedical scientists was 15 years ago, the response would probably be pardon?, but now that we are in the 21 century it has become more of acknowledge role in the healthcare industry and amongst the public. However the term biomedical scientist is still not used, one is more likely to hear terms like virologist, haematologist, microbiologist, cytologist, and many others. Biomedical science is a broad term used to encapsulate a diverse range of professions in health care and other industries. The first sign of viruses in history was probably discovered in the Egyptian times, when a dead corpse was found in tomb with abnormal tissues of smallpox. The body seem to show signs of yellow fever and other viruses and signs of paralytic poliomyelitis, which is caused from polio. As time went on people with polio viruses seemed to be successfully continuing with their life, however when the daunting HIV and Hepatitis B broke out there were more deaths. These viral diseases not only caused harm to humans but also to the planet, plants, fish, birds and other living mammals. Conclusion The word virus comes from the Greek meaning ‘poison’, the word virus has been commonly used in the English language for years.   One of the very first people to identify invisible viruses that was able to cause infectious diseases, was a bacteriologist, unfortunately technology that we now use to recognise disease were not present. Edward Jenner was a as scientist who cleverly used materials from cowpox as a vaccine to prevent smallpox. Many other people of whom were not scientist were able to create vaccines to prevent other disease e.g. Louis Pasteur he created a vaccine for children that had been bitten from a rabid animal.