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The beautiful, brainy screen sirens whose scientific inventions saved lives
23 Apr, 2021 03:04 AM
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Justine Johnstone in 1921. Photo / Getty Images
By: Donna Fleming
Once considered the most beautiful woman in America , silent-movie and Broadway actress Justine Johnstone Wanger turned her talents to life-saving medical research. By Donna Fleming. Next time you re in hospital having drugs administered via an intravenous drip, you may want to say a quiet thank you to Justine Johnstone Wanger.
Ninety years ago, Wanger and two colleagues published a ground-breaking paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) called Influence of Velocity on the Response to Intravenous Injections . It discussed how best to safely deliver drugs to treat diseases such as syphilis without inadvertently killing the patients.