History of Osteopathy Flashcards
Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
Father of antiseptic surgery reduced surgical mortality 45-15%
Ingaz Semmelweiss (1818-1865)
Decreased obstetrical clinical mortality 90% through handwashing of medical students who came from anatomy lab
John Snow 1813-1858
Used epidemiology to trace source of cholera outbreak in London
William Budd
1811-1880
Used epidemiology to prove cholera came from contaminated water source in Bristol
What theory did Germ Theory replace?
Miasma Theory
What did Thucydides say about how disease spread?
Disease spreads from person to person by “seeds”
What did Louis Pasteur do?
Discredited idea that disease is generated spontaneously
What did Rober Koch do?
Isolated Anthrax and prove it could cause disease
Nils Finsen
1860-1904
Used ultaviolet light in medicine
Wilhelm Rontgen
First to systematically study X-rays
When were X-Rays first used diagnostically?
1896
William Halstead
First to use sterile rubber gloves in surgery in 1890
When did local anesthetics become popular and what was a common one?
Late 1800’s
Cocaine
What was medicine considered to be before the late 1800’s
Heroic Medicine
What is heroic medicine
-Preserve life force
Stimulants if patien drowsy
Hypnotics if the patient agitated
Purgatives, cathartics and blood letting also used a bit
Purpose was to conquor disease – enough drugs could cast out demons
AT Still
1) When/where was he born?
2) Who were his parents and what did they do?
3) When did he move to missouri?
1) August 6, 1828 in Lee County, VA
2) Abraham - methodist rider and physician /// Martha - uneducated but could read
3) 1830s
What did At Still study from his father and how was he trained
medicine and ministry
via apprentiship with little formal training
What were some medical treatments durimng AT Still’s time?
alcohol, mercury, morphine, bleeding, purgatives, cocaine, calamel (mercury) – given to AT Still for his headaches
What happened when AT Still was 10 and in what year was this?
He made a rope swing to cure his headache
1839
What did AT Still do in 1849 and 1850?
1849 - Married Mary Margaret Vaughn
1850 - Took over a missiomn in Eudora, KS
What did AT Still do in 1855?
Studied anatomy using American Indian Cadavers after a cholera epidemic
What did AT Still do in 1857?
elected to Kansas Legislature, active in anti-slavery
What happened to AT Still in 1859?
Mary Margaret died during childbirth
What did AT Still do in 1860?
Married Mary Elvira Turner
What did AT Still do in 1861-1864?
Fought in Civil War (Union)
Highest Rank = Major
What battle did AT Still Fight in?
The battle of westport
What made AT Still rethink his ideas on medicine?
The loss of three of his children to meningitis in 1864 and another from pneumonia
When did AT fling the banner of osteopathy to the breeze?!?!?
10am on June 22, 1874
What three things did AT Still do in 1874 after his osteopathic epiphany?
- Presented osteopathic ideas to Baker University
- Excommunicated from Methodist Church for osteopathic ideas and run out of town
- First (recorded) treatment of OMT in Macon, MO
When did Still coin the term osteopathy
1885
When did Still move to Kirksville and work as a travelling physician?
1875
When did the American School of Osteopathy open? How many students were there? How many professors?
1892
-17 men and 5 women (22 people)
- 5 students were his children
- 2 professors - AT Still and Dr. William Smith
How much did the two-year course cost at the american school?
$500
What was the enrollment of the american school in 1895 and 1896?
28 and 102, respectively