Clinical Topics 2 Flashcards
Heroic Medicine
predominated in the 1800s
- bloodletting
- intestinal purging
- vomiting
- limb amputation
- profuse sweating
Benjamin Rush
was a fan of heroic medicine and against licensure
Primary agenda of AMA when established
- elevate educational standards
- licensure to establish control of health care
Bonesetting
- eventualy became the practice of orthopaedics in US
- Hueseros are what bone settees are called in South America
Eclectic Medicine
- version of herbal medicine
- the shakers
The Shakers
-were strongly inclined to herbal remedies and documented and published substantial lore on the use of botanicals and other natural remedies using plants
Homeopathy
- employs the “law of similars” which means that they use counter irritants to combat disease, if you have a fever then you sweat it out
- popular because it was more gentle than the heroic medicine alternatives
Samuel Hahnemann
the father of modern homeopathy
Magnetisme Animal
is a form of Vitalism, the belief that the body can and does heal itself and that caring for patients should be guided at facilitating these forces, rather that exterminating disease through surgery and medicines
-care should be focused on aiding the body in its quest to find a healthy state
Andrew T Still
founder of osteropathy
Osteopathy
- the law of the artery was the basis
- a disturbed artery could cause obstructed blood flow that could lead to disease or deformity
- strong elements of vitalism b/c founder was a magnetic healer before
- osteopaths preferred to keep the blood in the body compared to heroic medicine
- differ from chiropractic techniques by tending to be more pumping and mobilization, low velocity, high amplitude and long-lever maneuvers applied in rhythmic fashion
Chiropractors differing from osteopaths
- -DD Palmer was the founder
- techniques involved emphasis on high velocity, low amplitude procedures
Samuel Thompson
- the developer of the Thompsonian Movement and wrote “New Guide to Health; or Botanic Family Physician”
- was basically more or less gentle, herbal approach to purgatives and detoxifying the body
- milder form of heroic medicine
Black Laws
- was a derogatory term used by unconventional medical practitioners to describe the laws medicine tried to pass in states to restrict non-medical practitioners from practicing
- the term was a reference to laws that were in existence for the purpose of restricting African American peoples rights and freedoms in America
DD: Date and place of Birth
Port Perry, Ontario, Canada
March 6, 1845
DD: Careers prior to chiropractic
Magentic healer in 1886
before that he was a grocer, nursery owed, bee keeper, teacher
DD: Where did he practice Magnetic
Davenport, IA
How did DD’s magnetic healing work
- cured inflammation in his patients
- continued to believe the detrimental effects of inflammation when he focused his attention on chiropractic
DD: First adjustment
-at age 50, on September 18, 1895 he adjusted T4 on Harvey Lillard (a janitor), who was reffered by Rev. Samuel Weed (a friend of DDs) and allegedly cured Lillards deafness
Term “Chiropractic”
- DD relied on Rev Samueal Weed to help him devise the term
- from Greek, done by hand, in April 1896
Nerve Tracing
used it in his magnetic and chiropractic endeavors
DD: Advertising
-thru the newspaper that was variously named “The educator, the chiropractic, or the magnetic”
When did DD incorporate the Palmar school of Magnetic Cure (PSMC)
July 1896