History of Osteopathy Flashcards
Dr. Joe Lister
- Father of Antiseptic Surgery
- Reduced surgical mortality from 45% to 15%
Ingaz Semmelweiss
- OB clinic decreased mortality by 90% thru hand was
- died from infection
John Snow
-Used epidemiology to trace the source of cholera outbreak in London
William Budd
-Used epidemiology to PROVE cholera came from contaminated water source in Bristol
Germ Theory
replaced Mismas Theory
- Thucydides-disease spread by seeds
- Louis Pasteur-discredited spontaneous generation
- Robert Kock-isolated anthrax
Nils Finsen
-Used UV light in medicine
Wilhem Rontgen
-First to systematically study X-rays
Fernando Sanford
- discovered Xrays in 1891
- Xrays used diagnostically in 1896
William Halstead
- Meticulous in Surgery
- First used sterile rubber gloves in 1890
Heroic Medicine
“Preserve Life Force” & “Conquer Disease”
- stimulants if patients were drowsy
- hypnotics if patient agitated
- purgatives and cathartics were rampant
- blood letting
A.T. Still
- Born August 6 1828 in VA
- Moved to MO
- Studied Ministry and Medicine
- *1839 makes a rope swing for a headache
- 1849 marries mary margaret Vaughn
- 1850 took over mission in Eudora KS
- *1855 studied anatomy in indian cadavers
- 1857 elected to KS legislature (anti-slave)
- 1859 first wife dies, he has 3 kids
- 1860 marries mary elvira turner
- *1861-1864: civil war as major
- 1864 battle of westport
- 3 kids die from spinal meningitis & 1 from pneumonia
- returns to form and change medicine ideas
- 10 am June 22 1874-flung out banner of DO
- 1874-presents ideas to Baker University
- Still read out of Methodist church
- first recorded OMT in Macon in MO
- 1875 moved family to Kirksville MO
- *1885 coins term osteopathy (Bone Setter 1890)
- 1886 stays in Kirksville and patients come to him
- dies in 1917
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AT Still flung the banner of osteopathy into the breeze
American School of Osteopathy
opened in 1892
- 17 men and 5 women
- 5 students were AT Still’s kids
- course was $500
- enrollment 102 by 1896
- 1990: 700 students (largest school of healing arts)
Osteopathic Principle 1
Body is a unit; body mind and spirit
Osteopathic Principle 2
Body is capable of self-regulation, self healing and health maintenance
Osteopathic Principle 3
Structure and Function are reciprocally related
Osteopathic Principle 4
Rational treatment is based on an understanding of three other principles
What does OMT treat?
the Host NOT the disease