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Hx Med Final Ch 9
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Undergraduate 3
10/21/2008

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Pierre Louis
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numerical analysis for Dx
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Beaumont
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HCl in stomach; digestion is chemical
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Virchow
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pub. Cell Pathology; diseases come from alterations in normal cells; cells from cells
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Davy
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Nitrous oxide
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Sims
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fixed vesicovaginal fistula
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Pasteur
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disc. chirality which lead to organic chemistry
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Pope
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ether in dentistry
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Theophile and Laennec
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stethoscope
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Apothecaries Act
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regulated medical schooling
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Knox
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used stolen bodies from Burke and Hare
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Semmelweiss
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proved unsanitary conditions caused higher mortality rates
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Guthrie and Soubeirian
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disc. chloroform = fewer side effects that ether
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Epidural/Spinal anesthesia
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use cocaine in epidural space/spinal fluid; spinal = paralysis below injection site
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Burke and Hare
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steal bodies
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Nightingale
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hospital reform; invented epidemiology, biostatistics, nursing profession
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Hodgkin
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lymphoma; brings info from Guy's hosp. to Paris
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Schwann
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disc. pepsin - 1st digestive enzyme to be classified
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Schlieden
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plants made of cells
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Magendie
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nerve function; javanese arrow poison;; other remedies = quinine, caffeine, nicotine, codeine, cocaine
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Vitalism
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fermentation is biological (Pasteur)
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McDowell
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father of abdominal surgery; performed ovariotomy
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Ether
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invented gas "Letheon"
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Napoleon
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troops vac. for smallpox but troops wiped out by typhus
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Dr Guillotine
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Invented humane form of execution
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Auenbrugger
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percussion instrument of chest; importance of PE and Hx
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Lister
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better microscope; carbolic acid as antiseptic
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Cammann
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stethoscope with rubber tubing
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Crawford
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ether for cyst removal
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Snow
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Broad Street Pump Experiment - living organism caused cholera
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Gray
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used cadavers to study anatomy; Gray's Anatomy
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Cordus
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rediscovers ether - 'sweet oil of vitrol'
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Anatomy Act of 1832
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gave unclaimed bodies of paupers to anatomy schools
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Cushing and Amory
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devised chart for anesthesia that charted pulse, temp, resp
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