Part one of term paper
“Woe to that child which when kissed on the forehead tastes salty, for he is bewitched and soon must die.” Northern European folklore, though a salty brow was the least of that child’s worries that at the time was the way people found out that their child was going to die. How horrible this disease was, it slapped life in the face and l ...

Part two of term paper
... the somewhat of an early death that occurs. The bottom line of this disease is that it causes a loss of chloride transport. In 1938 Dorothy H. Anderson of Columbus University discovered some definite symptoms of CF () by performing autopsies on infected children. She had also named the genetic defect. Those were destruction of pancreas, damage to lungs and infections in lungs. By the 1940’s scientists discovered that thick secretions, which blocked digestive enzymes from the pancreas, were c ...