The_Invention_of_Surgery
physicians and Yale Skull and Bonesman, gifted in camaraderie and reasoning. The bachelor Welch directly confronted Halsted abou ...
Having failed deprivation treatment, it was clear to Halsted that more intensive medical intervention was required. Welch still ...
preeminence of laboratory science was poised to change healthcare in the new world, and Welch (under the watchful eye of Gilman) ...
developed “a manner of dealing with animal experiments that soon became the national standard,”^20 his second major contribution ...
local hospitals. He had arrived in Baltimore just two years before, shattered. Slowly, the former metropolitan bon vivant was re ...
making scientific history at the nondescript hindmost of the university grounds. At Bellevue in 1885, Halsted had overseen the c ...
Lister had pioneered antiseptic surgery a quarter of a century prior to the naissance of Johns Hopkins Hospital. It had started ...
Hopkins in June 1889, on a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten who had furtively battled a growing, abscess-filled tumor for six ...
and more aggressively was the answer to freeing the patient from the invader. The ancient Greek word for cancer was karkinos, or ...
and bone are removed. Halsted did dramatically improve cancer mortality, but a cure was (and is) still on the horizon. If radica ...
Through years of careful badgering, we all learned how to be elegant surgeons. “Aseptic technique, gentle handling of tissue, sc ...
scrotum.”^32 Stated simply, a weakness in the lower abdominal wall allows your “guts” to billow through. Every medical student r ...
By the 1890s, the Professor, with dozens of residents in the wings, was overseeing a vast surgical empire. For only a few cognos ...
ELEVEN Vitallium “My plan was to return home from Sweden to Chicago in 1967, and to spend the rest of my life conducting biomech ...
that causes malaria. The nocturnal routine is always the same, where every inhabitant unfurls the twisted-up netting to cover al ...
right hip, knee, and tibia (his shin bone), with the result that his pelvis and groin pain won’t allow him to lie flat or sit in ...
doesn’t bleed to death on the operating table, and the diseased leg is so swollen and edematous that dissection is difficult. I ...
Greek, “to form or mold a new joint”), she was not the first human to have a shoulder implant inserted. Tuberculosis is still a ...
gradually become more painful and dysfunctional. In 1720, Benjamin Marten, while living in London, theorized that consumption wa ...
battlefield wounds, and if traumatic skin lacerations could reliably heal after sewing the edges together with silk and catgut s ...
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