Tales from the past, when told to a new generation, create little interest, particularly when they recount personal events only. However, when they deal with flesh and blood men and women, and of the eddies in the stream of time, they hold our attention. A look in the past can reveal the origin of ideas and relate them to the men and women who created them. This tale is an attempt to recount developments in medical science as personally experienced during the last seventy years. I hope this will show that science is a child of its time bound to thoughts and technology of its time. Therefore, we should not apply today's standards to the work that came before us...