By PASQUALE ACCARDO
Now you simply recognize calendric resonances, the anniversary view of histmy, and catalogue them by means of Alphabetical precedence. -John Barth, Letters The heritage of drugs is a microcosm for the full of human historical past. Its advances parallel growth in technology and philosophy, civilization and ethics. Its pageantry mirrors the entire triumphs and follies of human heritage. Osler commented that "the particularly impressive years within the annals of medication aren't very a variety of. "l And certainly such a lot calendars and alma nacs checklist yet few clinical milestones. the current assortment has been revamped a interval of years. Its process is that of a standard ebook: "What have we to do yet to set down this holy man's identify within the calen dar of saints?"2 The individuals herein represented contain pre dominantly physicians, anatomists, and barber surgeons, with a few few pharmacist-apothecaries and alchemists, an occa sional chemist, biochemist, or physiologist, an rare nurse, and an extraordinary clinical tuition botany professor of materia medica. The milestones disguise the dates of serious discoveries, first (and frequently contested) operations, guides, and pres entations. The ceremonial dinner days of holy consumers of these affliction numerous illnesses are recalled, in addition to the dates of start (and occasionally baptism), of scientific commencement, and of the deaths of well-known physicians. (It should be remembered that, aside from the dinner party of the start of Saint John the Baptist, saints are celebrated at the dates in their death-their start into everlasting life.
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Retcherfounded the Index Medicus. " "A hospital is a living organism. 1955 Alexander Fleming, a Scottish bacteriologist and the discoverer of penicillin. March 12 1799 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse writes "Something Curious in the Medical Line," the first account of vaccination in America. 1845 Francis Rynd first introduces fluids into the body by subcutaneous injections using a hypodermic syringe. 1853 Mathieu-Joseph-Bonaventure Orjila, Spanish physician and chemist. He was the father of medicolegal toxicology.
45 March March 6 1664 First publication of the Philosophical Transactions. 1740 Giovanni Meli, Sicilian physician and poet. He was professor of chemistry at Palermo. As the "Sicilian Anacreon," he gave prestige to the Sicilian dialect. a was a satirical continuation of Cervantes' novel. 1885 William Norman Pickles, an English "country doctor" who studied infectious diseases in small communities. He wrote Epidemiology in Country Practice (1939). 1888 Louisa May Alcott, American author. Her Hospital Sketches (1863) is composed of letters to her family while she was a nurse in a Union hospital in Georgetown during the American Civil War.
Osler) He was a classical scholar, a medical biographer (of Valsalva), and is remembered in numerous eponyms. 1908 Frank Gill Slaughter, an American surgeon and novelist, author of Women in White and Sword and Scalpel. 1693 Charles Scarburgh, English physician and mathematician. He worked with Harvey in his experiments on the generation of animals. 1849 Franz Christian Boll, anatomist, professor of physiology at Rome. His Sull'anatomia e fisiologia della retina (1876) described the visual purple (rhodopsin) in the rods of the retina that fades in the presence of light.
