Osteopathic History Flashcards
Joseph Lister
1827-1912
Father of Antiseptic Surgery - reduced surgical mortality from 45% to 15%
Ingaz Semmelweiss
1818-1865
Decreased OB infection mortality by 90% - implementing handwashing after cadaver labs
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 contaminated water source in Bristol
Wilhelm Rontgen
First to systematically study X-rays (discovered by Fernando Sandford in 1891), used them diagnosistically in 1896
Medicine before osteopathy
Heroic medicine to “preserve life force”
stimulants for drowsiness, hypnotics for agitation, laxatives, stool softeners, blood letting
to “conquer disease”
Andrew Taylor Still
Born August 6, 1828, Lee County Viginia
Father Abram was a Methodist Circuit Rider and Physician
A.T. Still Main life events
1839 - rope swing to cure headache
1855 - studied NA anatomy after cholera epidemic
1859 - wife died in childbirth
1861-1864 - fought in Civil War
1864 - 3 of his kids die (spinal meningitis) and a fourth from pneumonia
Published books in 1897, 1899, 1910
1917 - Dies age 89
Flung the banner of osteopathy to the breeze
10AM June 22, 1874
- also removed from the church and performed first OMT that year
American School of Osteopathy opens
1892
17 men and 5 women students in first class
22 –> 28 –> 102 –> (18 years later) 700 students and 18 faculty
Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery
Established 1916 by A.A. Kaiser, DO and George Conley, DO
- same year AOA lifted ban on teaching pharamacology
Abraham Flexner
1910 - traveled to MD and DO schools, criticized teaching. Most schools were closed. 8 DO schools remained after. State licensing boards enforced stricter requirements
Influenza Pandemic
1917-1918 - 30 mil died in 6 months, est. 500 mil infected
Feb 1919 journal Osteopathy - w/ osteopathic care 0.25% death rate, w/ Allopathic only = 10% death rate
AMA labels DOs cult
1922
- not until 1955 that this was removed
- AMA inspected DO schools and felt education comparable but facilities were inadequate
DOs in the military
1917 - wanted fed recognition and to serve in military. T. Roosevelt on board but Surgeon general William C. Gorgas said no
1941 - MDs drafted for military, DOs still not serving. Hospitals not granting DOs privileges, Rapid spike in DO hospitals
1957 - congress legalized DOs to serve, didn’t change much
1963- DOs accepted as equal to MD
1966 - Harry J Walter first commissioned DO to armed forces
The California Incident
1961 - CA pub referendum prohibited new licenses to DOs. Could keep license or pay $65 and attend Saturday class to change to MD. 85% practicing DOs traded to MD –> stuck in CA to practice (not recognized outside)
- California medical association merged with California Osteopathic Association
- Proposition 22 abolished osteopathic licensing board
- then AOA chartered new group (OPSC) wanted to retain DO degrees. Start of a long court battle, not resolved until 1974 - Supreme court ruled DO licensing in CA to be resumed
- Catalyst - then all 50 states gave rights to practice
University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine
1980 - name changed from KCCOS
Rear Admiral Louis H. Eske, DO
1983 - first flag officer in the medical corps of military
Lieutenant general Ronald R. Blank, DO
Surgeon General of the Army 1996-2000
Jeanette Bolles, DO
First woman to receive DO degree, vice president of AAAO (before transfer to AOA)
Osteopathic Women’s National Association
founded 1920s
Louisa Burns
1870-1958
spinal meningitis successfully treated with osteopathy, so she was a big believer in OM
- Worked in histology and postulated the connected tissue model of somatic dysfunction
- Louisa Burns award for research
Mamie Johnson
1889-1986
First graduate from KCCOS 1917 (KCU), then went back and completed another year (curriculum changed to 4 years) and graduated 1918
- Joined KCU faculty, taught GYN and PEDS
Barbara Ross-Lee
First female dean of a medical college (MD or DO) - Ohio University
2001 VP of NY Institute of Technology Health sciences and medical affairs
2002 - Dean of New York COM
Marcelino Oliva
1935-2011
Cuban born, graduated from KCU
President of Florida Osteopathic Medical assoc, 1971-1975
First minority AOA president in 1988-1989
William G. Anderson
Associate Dean KCOM (Now AT.Still University)
AOA president 1994-1995
AOA board of trustees 20 years
