The Importance Of Douglas Mawson's Antearctic Expedition

You face struggles everyday but i doubt you have ever had any like Douglas Mawson, Phineas Gage and Henrietta Lacks. Douglas Mawson, Phineas Gage, and Henrietta Lacks, have experienced a lot of dreadful adversities to achieve scientific advancement. Douglas Mawson went on a antarctic expedition and struggled to make it out with his life, Henrietta Lacks was getting cancer treatments and was used for research without her permission, and Phineas Gage was working on a railroad and blasted a metal threw his head. Douglas Mawson has endured the most and worst of all of them for scientific advancement. Most importantly, Mawson had to watch Xavier Mertz a swiss ski champion and Belgrave ninnis a royal fusiliers die which were his two closest friends. Douglas Mawson ate his sledge dogs with Mertz. Mawson and Mertz resorted to eating their dogs because they didn’t have any food and the dogs were already dying from starvation and …show more content…
Phineas is a railroad worker and one day a metal rod flew into his eye and threw his skull; he was conscious the whole time. When he went to the hospital they had to pick lose bits of brain out of his skull and drain liquid from his brain by his nose. The pole damaged his frontal lobe which was responsible for decision making and social behavior. He wasn’t that changed but people who knew him for a long time said he was different and didn’t act the same.
Henrietta Lacks a thirty-one year old woman who died of cervical cancer. First, Henrietta Lacks was struggling from cervical cancer and had malignancies on almost every organ in her body. Before she died a surgeon sliced away healthy tissue for George Gey the director of tissue culture research at Hopkins. The tissue was the foundation of multiple medical advances such as the polio vaccine, Chemotherapy, treatments for influenza, leukemia and more. Her cells made a multi-million dollar industry; her family receive no profit or