Squeamish?

Day 108

The hypodermic needle terrifies animals and humans alike, but as a vet it is an invaluable tool. It aids diagnoses through enabling venipuncture and blood sampling, it enables accurate dosage of drugs by numerous routes (intramusctial, subcutaneous, intraoseus, intraperitoneal, epidural, intra-articular...basically anywhere). We now use them to inject microchips to allow identification.

It was brought to my attention this week that us Scots are a rather innovative bunch. To name a few...

The Steam Engine - Watt
The Telephone - Bell
The Television - Baird
Rugby Sevens
The Pneumatic tyre - Tompson and Dunlop
Canals - Telford
Postage Stamps -Chalmers
Universal Standard Time - Flemming
Radar - Watson-Watt
MRI - Mallard and Huchinson
The First Cloned Mammal (Dolly the sheep) - Roslin Institute
Golf
Curling
Anaesthesia with the use of Chloroform - Simpson
The Hypodermic Syringe - Wood
The Mosquito as the Carrier of Malaria - Ross
Brucellosis - Bruce
Insulin - Macleod
Penicillin - Flemming
The ECG - Muirhead
The Fridge - Cullen
The Toilet - Cummings
The Waterproof Macintosh - Macintosh
Marmalade - Keiller
Bovril - Johnston

Tragically (and rather ironically), the wife of the inventor of the hypodermic syringe, died due to her Morphine addiction.