18th Century Flashcards
Emphasized on close bedside observation and importance of classifying diseases
Thomas Sydenham
Father of Physiology, Dutch Huppocrates
Great Clinical Teacher
Hermann Boerhaave
supporter of vitalism; diseases result from excess or deficiency of Tonus
Phlogiston theory: combustion
Friedrich hoffmann
President of the Royal Medical Society
Stimulants and sedatives for treatment (Brunonian System)
John Brown
Introduced binomial nomeclature
Carolus Linnaeus
Proponent of homeopathy; miasma
Samuel Hahnemann
First to perform iridectomy
William Cheselden
Swiss Father of Modern Physiology
Theory of preformation
Albrecht von Haller
Described tuberculosis, meningitis, and ditheria
localized the seat of reflex action in the spinal cord
Robert Whytt
Father of modern histology
Importance of autopsy
Francois Xavier Bichat
Founder of phrenology
Franz Joseph Gall
Discovered the mebranous labyrinth, nasopalatine nerve, and femoral triangle
Antonia scarpa