Lecture 3: History of Osteopathy Flashcards
when was AT still born?
August 6, 1828
Lee County, Virginia
when did AT still’s wife die?
1859
When did AT still’s children die?
1864-Three of Still’s children die from spinal meningitis, and another one dies from pneumonia one month later
“AT Still flung the banner of osteopathy to the breeze”
10 AM June 22, 1874
when was the first recorded osteopathic treatment?
1874-Macon, Missouri
when did Still coin term osteopathy?
1885
When did AT still die?
1917
Father of Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister 1827-1912
Ingaz Semmelweiss
-1818-1865
• Obstetrical clinic decreased mortality by 90% through handwashing
John Snow
-1813-1858
• Used epidemiology to trace source of cholera outbreak in London in 1854
William Budd
-1811-1880
• Used epidemiology to prove cholera came from a contaminated water source in Bristol
Thucydides
460-400BC – disease spread from person to person by “seeds”
what was germ theory replaced by?
Miasma Theory
Louis Pasteur
discredited spontaneous generation
Robert Koch
isolated anthrax
Nils Finsen
1860-1904
• Used ultraviolet light in medicine
Wilhelm Rontgen
First to systematically study X-rays
when were xrays used diagnostically?
1896