The_Invention_of_Surgery
intercourse that carried the seeds of infection. The venereal disease epidemics provided further evidence that contagium animata ...
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) is widely considered the father of microbiology for his pioneering work on fermentation, microscopy, v ...
“Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés” (“Where observation is concerned, chance favor ...
Carbolic acid, therefore, was a natural implement in the war against surgical infections. So it came to be on August 12, 1865, i ...
with unselfish, loving consideration for everyone who came into his sphere. These qualities helped him, more than anyone else, c ...
associated with infection and death but were the causes of disease and final destruction. To validate the germ theory, one neede ...
Contagia, Herr Professor’s ruminations on germs were no doubt reverberating in Koch’s ears. His bio-mathematical calculations ha ...
Within a year of his arrival, in 1873, sheep in the area began to die. Worse, local farmers and sheep shearers began to sicken. ...
type of bacteria he had seen the year before. Jacob Henle’s dream had been that “It could be empirically proven that [bacteria] ...
microscope. Koch was the unwitting exemplar of laboratory animal experimentation: his use of rabbits and mice (including his own ...
colonies of Bacillus anthracis, and then dried them under heat, noticing that the rods and the spores would cease growing. When ...
Koch soon published his work on anthrax, and in a pulse of experiments and publications over the next several years, demonstrate ...
Koch and his associates prepared blocks of tuberculous tissues, and using the newly invented microtome, shaved extremely thin la ...
“Koch’s postulates.” These insights started with Henle, but came to full flower with Koch. In his careful, methodical, if not mu ...
Pasteur, Lister, Koch, and colleagues identified, nurtured, decoded, and short-circuited the kingdom of germs. Practically, the ...
German surgeons meticulously executing operations (antiseptically under anesthesia) was soon to replace the archaic practice of ...
EIGHT Antibiotics Amputating a man’s arm is a gut-wrenching and shocking act. Regardless of the clinical justification and no ma ...
all initial tests were ruling out an MI, the severity of his symptoms warranted a hospital admission. As the hours progressed, h ...
Krispies. My stomach drops, and while I don’t have much experience or judgment in the practice of surgery, I know this is gas ga ...
Even before transporting the patient to the OR suites we gave Mr. Louis a large dose of penicillin, but necrotizing fasciitis is ...
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