Chapter 10 Summary

The focus in chapter 10 was medical uses of elements. The first one he covered was silver by telling stories such as Tycho Brahe, who lost part of his nose and replaced it with a silver prosthetic one. Kean was able to cover the anti-bacterial properties of silver. Next, gadolinium was then introduced with huge medical contributions and a highly magnetic character. Today it is used in MRI machines, making it one of the most important elements used in medicine today. 
 Kean then talks about Louis Pasteur, the scientist to discover that everything is typically left handed, or at least has a "handiness" towards it. He then went on to go learn more about chirality. Afterwards, he discussed Gerhard Domagk and his discovery of prontosil's great ability to heal which sparked the use of it as a healing agent. Many patents were able to be woken up from their strange mental paralysis with the help of Pasteur's findings and William Knowles discovery with rhodium.