History Flashcards
1662
Henshaw develops Domicillum
1662
Boyle - Bubbles in a viper’s eyeballs
1775
Priestly discovers oxygen
1845
Triger describes cassion disease
1878
Paul Bert - father of pressure physiology. Described CNS toxicity and DCS. DCS pain can resolve with recompression. Wrote barometric pressure.
1899
Lorraine-Smith described pulmonary toxicity.
1906
Haldane - creates first decompression tables.
1937
Behnke - proposes oxygen plus recompression to treat DCS
1960
Boerma - pig study. Life without blood. Father of modern Hyperbaric medicine.
1967
Undersea Medical Society (UMS) founded.
1977
Davis and Hunt publish “Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy” textbook.
1960
Brummelkamp describes hyperbaric oxygen inhibits anaerobic bacteria.
1986
UMS renamed Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)