David Nalin
David Nalin · Science & Medicine
Physician who helped develop oral rehydration therapy for cholera and diarrhea
1941, United States
United States · Bangladesh
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David R. Nalin is an American physician who, working at the Cholera Research Laboratory in Dhaka in the late 1960s, helped develop and prove oral rehydration therapy — a simple glucose-and-salt solution that treats life-threatening dehydration from cholera and diarrhea. Credited with saving tens of millions of lives, ORT was hailed by The Lancet as a major medical advance of the 20th century. He is listed among Jewish figures in biomedical science.
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Physician who helped develop oral rehydration therapy for cholera and diarrhea
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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