Histoire des sciences médicales
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Biography Historical Article
[Medical ethics. Evolution century after century].
Since Hippocrates had succeeded to specify the medical science his ethical principles-kindness, deference to human life, privacy of home-were expressed in the so-called Hippocratic Oath. Later some principles of non-discrimination were added, chiefly in the field of the medical research.
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Biography Historical Article
[Corvisart's aphorisms in cardiology as recorded by Laennec].
The aphorisms which Laennec recorded at the "Hôpital de la Charité" in 1802 ("Anno X") during the lectures given by his master Jean-Nicolas Corvisart were, to a large extent, devoted to cardiology. They illustrate Corvisart's teaching methods and, above all else, they allow to discern his medical conceptions, based on acuteness of semiotic study, on rigour of physical examination, on analysis of signs and their confrontation with anatomical data, thereby opening the era of anatomico-clinical approach and of a novel medicine, which his disciple Laennec was to purse and amplify. Also, they witness to Corvisart's clinical sense and premonition of diseases, including heart diseases, which were to be identified much later on.
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Biography Historical Article
[The role of the dentist Christopher Starr Brewster and of certain physicians of American origins in the debut of anesthesia].
Francis Willis Fisher (1821-1877), son of Freeman Fisher (1787-1860) and Mary Godfrey Bronson (1802-1885), was the nephew of the painter Alvan Fisher (1792-1863) and of the physician John Dix Fisher (1797-1850). At the beginning of December 1846, having made an appointment with a Parisian dentist for the extraction of a tooth, F. Willis Fisher resolved to experiment the new application of sulphuric ether. ⋯ Brewster was a friend of the dentist Horace Wells (1815-1848) and of James Henry Bennet (1816-1891), Vice-President of the Parisian Medical Society (1841-1843), then the Physician-Accoucheur to the Western General Dispensary of London (1845-1850). On 8 June 1848, Brewster married Anna Maria Bennet. Two children were born from this union: Henry Bennet Brewster and Mary Catherine Brewster.
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Biography Historical Article
[Antoine-Joseph Jobert de Lamballe 1799-1867; or the impetus of modern surgery].
Jobert de Lamballe was a famous French surgeon who lived from 1830 to 1867. Born at Matignon, in France, (Cotes d'Armor country) in a poor family, he became Clinical Surgery Professor at Paris Faculte de Medecine and was known throughout the world for his works about intestinal suturing which, today, is remaining the visceral surgery basis. He was also acknowledged as the originator of plastic surgery, chiefly for the slipping flap regarding to vesico-vaginal fistulas which, before him were assessed as incurable. ⋯ Remarkable surgeon in Saint-Louis and Hotel-Dieu Paris hospitals, he was, also, known for his surgical animal's experimentation, but he was a mediocre speaker. He was King Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III's surgeon till his death on April the 19th, 1867, at Dr. Blanche's Clinic for mental diseases after he was falling into a painful depression.