He married Ruth White, a teacher and housewife, in 1956. He died in 2009. Dr. In addition to his daughter Alison, Scott also survived his wife, Jacquelyn Lehmer; three other daughters, Jennifer, Heidi and Ann Scott; a son, Nathaniel; four stepdaughters, Suzanne, Mary, Sally and Phillis Lehmer; 20 grandchildren; and two grandchildren.
Dr. Scott was not the first scientist to discover the therapeutic potential of Clostridium botulinum. What is “sausage poison” Justinus Kerner, German poet and doctorcalled pathogen in the 1820s; He had observed the crippling effects of food poisoning in his town after a single giant sausage sickened 13 people and killed six of them. After injecting it into snails, grasshoppers, and rabbits, Dr. Kerner eventually self-injected, noting its inhibitory effect on the autonomic and motor nervous systems, and postulating its use as a medical treatment for certain nervous conditions. (After the years, a microbiologist named it Bacillus botulinum, after botulus, the Latin word for sausage.)
In 2013, Dr. Scott, Strabismus Research Foundation In Mill Valley, California, where he developed the use of bipuvicain, a local anesthetic. At his death, he was also working on a treatment procedure that involved electrical stimulation of the eye muscles through a small implanted pacemaker-like device.
Meanwhile, Botox sales for medical and cosmetic treatments continued to rise. In the first nine months of 2021, cosmetics sales generated more than $3.3 billion in global revenue, accounting for just under half of that figure. Earnings report for the period from AbbVieThe company that acquired Allergan in 2020.
But Dr. Scott never regretted selling the drug.
“I paid for my house, my children were educated,” he told The San Francisco Chronicle. “And I had the satisfaction of seeing absolutely wonderful medical results. So I was satisfied.” “I’m not very good at giving and spending money anyway,” he added.