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HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
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1812
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Russell Thacker Trall, MD (d. 1877) Hygiene, hydrotherapy, vegetarian pioneer, writer, publisher, educator. Launched Water Cure Center, NYC, 1844. Opened Hygienic Institute, NY, 1847. Published The Water-Cure Journal, later renamed Herald of Health. Renowned as proponent of health creation, natural law, healthy living.XX
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1813
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Claude Bernard, MD (d. 1878) French physiologist who articulated and introduced the term, milieu intérieur (i.e., self-regulatory homeodynamics). Known for: “The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.”
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1814
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp, MD (d. 1908) Developer of Terrain Theory of Disease, emphasizing individual’s health is pivotal in appearance and virulence of disease. Proposed that in the susceptible organism the “terrain” will attract microzymas as scavengers of the compromised tissue. Influenced and debated L. Pasteur, proponent of emerging germ theory.
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1817
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Samuel Hahnemann, MD, produces handwritten, alphabetized ”Symptomemlexicon,” the first index of symptoms, i.e., the first homeopathic repertory, derived from Materia Medica Pura and Chronic Diseases.
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1818
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, MD (Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis) (d.1865) Introduced concept of asepsis through clinical observation and research resulting in the publication of The Cause, Concept and Prevention of Child-Bed Fever in 1861. Reported that puerperal fever was far less prevalent in wards attended by midwives than wards where medical students attended. Semmelweis had students wash, scrub their hands in chlorine water before attending, esp. if they had just come from post- mortem lab. The infant mortality rate dropped sharply. These ideas were rejected as heretical by medical orthodoxy and Semmelweis was largely banished from teaching. XX
Robert S. Newton, MD (d. 1881)) Influential Eclectic physician, author, educator; Dean of Eclectic Medical Institute (1856-1861) and its Clinical Institute (OH); co-founded Eclectic Medical Journal with J. Buchanan; also active in New York, NY. XX
PRACTICE MODELS AND DELIVERY
System of Practical Medicine (System Der Praktischen Heilkunde, 1818-1828). Christof Hufeland, MD.
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