Hx Of Osteopathy Flashcards
Father of Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister 1827-1912
Reduced surgical mortality from 45% to 15%
Ingaz Semmelweiss
1818-1865
Obstetrical clinic decrease mortality by 90% through hand washing
Died of infection
Used epidemiology to trace source of cholera outbreak in London in 1854
John Snow 1813-1858
William Budd
1811-1880
Used epidemiology to prove cholera came from contaminated water source in Bristol
Nils Finsen
1860-1904
Used ultraviolet light in medicine
Wilhelm Rontgen
First to systemically study x rays
- discovered by Fernando Sanford in 1891
X rays used diagnostically in 1896
William Halstead
Meticulous in surgery
First used sterile rubber gloves in surgery 1890
When did local anesthetics become popular
Late 1800s
Louis Pasteur
Discredited spontaneous generation
RObeert Koch
Isolated anthrax
When was AT Still born? Where?
August, 6 1828
Lee County, Virginia
Names of AT Still’s parents?
Abraham (Abram) and Martha Still
Abram Still’s profession
Methodist Circuit Rider and Physician
Martha Still’s education…
She was uneducated but could read
Wanted better for her children
Describe AT Still’s medicine and ministry education?
Studied medicine and ministry from his father
His medical training was more apprenticeship and little formal class
Treatments were few: alcohol, morphine, mercury, bleeding, etc
When did AT Still make a rope swing to treat a headache
1839
In what year did AT Still study anatomy in Indian cadavers after a cholera epidemic?
1855
When did AT Still fight in the Civil War (Union) as highest rank a Major?
1861-1864
When was the Battle of Westport?
1864
When did AT Still fling the banner of osteopathy to the breeze?
10AM June 22, 1874
What year is Still “read out” or formally removed from the Methodist Church?
1874
What year and where was the first “recorded” Osteopathic Treatment?
1874 in Macon, MO
What year did Still coin the term “Osteopathy”?
1885
AT Still advertises himself as what until 1890?
Bone Setter