History of OS Flashcards
Joseph Lister
father of antiseptic surgery, phenol
Ingaz Semmelweiss
decreased mortality through handwashing, died of infection
John Snow
used epidemiology to trace source of cholera outbreak
William Budd
epidemiology to prove cholera came from contaminated water in bristol
Thucydides
“seeds”
Louis Pasteur
discredited spontaneous generation
Robert Koch
isolated anthrax
Nils Finsen
UV light
Wilhelm Rontgen
first to sytematically study X-rays
Sanford discovered in 1891
William Halstead
sterile rubber gloves 1890
Heroic medicine
“preserve life force” used drugs to conquer disease and cast out demons
When was AT Still born?
August 6, 1828 in Lee County, VA
AT Still parents
Abraham and Martha
AT Still’s father’s jobs
Methodist minister and physician
Move to KS
1850
1855
studied anatomy with cholera cadavers
1857
elected to KS legislature
1861-1864
fights in civil war (union)
1864
three children die of spinal meningitis, one from pneumonia
AT Still flung banner of osteopathy
10AM June 22, 1874