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The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine; The Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; The Ruth Lilly Medical Library of the Indiana University (with collections on the practice of medicine in 19th century Indiana and other Midwestern states)
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-215173-1. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006); 416pp; excerpt and text search. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search
[1]: 2 With increasing anatomical emphasis in hospitals and the medical curriculum following changes in European medicine in the early 19th century, physicians in the US similarly sought to set the medical profession apart from alternative medicine and other rivals through increased anatomical studies. As a result, the demand for corpses by ...
The 19th century was filled with scientific advancements in pharmacology and physiology. During the 1840s, the introduction of diethyl ether (1842), [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] nitrous oxide (1844), [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and chloroform (1847) [ 22 ] [ 23 ] as general anesthetics revolutionized modern medicine .
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Epidemics of the 19th century were faced without the medical advances that made 20th-century epidemics much rarer and less lethal. Micro-organisms (viruses and bacteria) had been discovered in the 18th century, but it was not until the late 19th century that the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation conclusively, allowing germ theory and Robert ...
The Popular Health Movement of the 1830s–1850s was an aspect of Jacksonian-era politics and society in the United States.The movement promoted a rational skepticism toward claims of medical expertise that were based on personal authority, and encouraged ordinary people to understand the pragmatics of health care. [1]