Richard Cash
Richard Cash · Science & Medicine
Physician who helped develop oral rehydration therapy, saving millions from diarrheal disease
1941, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States — 2024, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
United States · Bangladesh
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Cash was a physician and global-health researcher who helped develop and clinically prove oral rehydration therapy in 1960s East Pakistan (Bangladesh), a simple salt-and-sugar solution credited with saving tens of millions of lives from cholera and diarrheal disease. He was born into a Jewish family in Milwaukee, descended from Eastern European Jews who had fled the pogroms, and spent his career at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Physician who helped develop oral rehydration therapy, saving millions from diarrheal disease
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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