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| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-18 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Lorenz Heister
Sept 19, 1683 - April 18, 1758
💠German Anatomist, Surgeon & Botanist
His contributions .....
🔹Heister studied medicine at the University of Giessen. As he was very curious about the field of anatomy, he studied further from various anatomist such as Frederik Ruyschhe, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Govert Bidloo, Hermann Boerhaave.
🔹Thereupon, he earned his Doctorate in 1708 from the University of Harderwijk and then joined in the Dutch military as a field surgeon during the civil wars in 1709.
🔹Afterwards, he got appointed as a Professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Altdorf in 1711. Later, he served at Helmstedt and continued there till his last days.
🔹Moreover, Heister was the first to descibe Appendicitis and he was specially credited for the same.
🔹As well as, he made the first successful Thyroidectomy and coined the word "Tracheotomy" in 1718.
🔹Furthermore, he concluded that the alteration in crystallin lens is the cause of cataract rather than a change in the cornea as the way believed earlier.
🔹His Eponym....
▪ The spiral valves of Heister- Anatomical folds of the cystic duct.
🔹In fact, he became well-known by his book written in German language The Chirurgie.
🔹This was the first book which had elaborated the surgery systematically and enclosed with all surgical instruments, bandages and also detailed the surgical operations step by step with mentioning possible complications. His book was translated into several languages.
🔹Besides, he personally had a vast library with about 12,000 books. Also, he possessed more than 470 surgical instruments, in which, most of them made by silver. Thereby, he was considered as the Founder of Scientific Surgery in Germany.
🔹In addition, he had made significant contributions to the field of botany. His botanical writings with illustrated descriptions of plants were published in 1755.
🔹In order to honour his enormous contributions, a plant genus has given his name as Heisteria.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Surgeon & Researcher
Dr. Lorenz Heister 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-19 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg
April 19,1912- Feb 25, 1998
💠American Nuclear Chemist
💠Founding Father of Nuclear Medicine
His contributions....
🔸Seaborg was very inspired by his chemistry teacher, when he was young. Thereby, he became interested in chemistry.
🔸Seaborg had began his carrier at the University of California, as a nuclear chemist and discovered around 10 radioactive elements like plutonium, cerium, nobelium... By that, he created an actinide series in the Mendeleev's Periodic Tables of Elements.
🔸In fact, his assignment in investigating isotopes had greatly contributed to discover more than 100 isotopes of elements.
🔸Subsequently, Seaborg's elements were being used in the field of medicine and he became a pioneer in nuclear medicine.
🔸His radioactive isotopes utilized in the field of medicine are...
▪ Iron-59, used to study hemoglobin in human blood
▪ Iodine-131, used to treat thyroid diseases. (Successfully used personally to prolong the life of his mother who suffered from thyroid disease)
▪ Cobalt - 60, used as a radiation source for medical radiotherapy
▪ Cobalt - 60 Teletherapy machine to treat cancer
▪ Technetium-99m, which is a diagnostic radioisotope used widely in...
🔅Tc 99m sestamibi scans
🔅Tc 99m MAG
🔅SPECT
🔅Bone scans
🔅Cardiac Ventriculography
🔅Immunoscintigraphy
🔅Blood pool labelling...
🔸His ground breaking discovery of 10 transuranium elements had made him to receive the most prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 at the age of 39 years.
🔸Conferred as an honour, his element Seaborgium was released in his name in the year 1997. That was the first time, the element labelled with its scientists name for a living person.
🔸Moreover, Dr. Seaborg had advised around ten Presidents of United States from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton on nuclear policy.
🔸Dr. Seaborg was actually living with the principle of "There is a Beauty in Discovery."
A Day to Commemorate...
A True Giant of the 20th Century
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-20 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr. Henry Bence Jones
Dec 20,1813 - April 20,1873
💠English Physician
His contributions.....
🔹Bence Jones studied medicine at St George's Hospital in 1836. After the successful completion of his medical schooling, he studied chemistry at University College, London according to his interest.
🔹Then he got trained in chemistry in Germany and subsequently, he was appointed at St George's hospital, London. Afterwards, he became a full time physician and also the Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1849.
🔹In fact, he was the first who insisted on examining the urine as a standard procedure in diagnosing clinical diseases in both chemically and with the microscope🔬.
🔹He further published his studies on many topics including renal calculi. He was the first who revealed the presence of Sulphur in Cysteine calculus.
🔹Moreover, he was the first to describe the abundance of urate crystals in the urine among gouty patients.
🔹Thereupon, he found that sugar in diabetic urine was still being identified in the urine despite withhold of sugar.
🔹In the year 1845, he recognised an unusual protein presents in the urine of a patient affected with malignant bone disease (myeloma). And he predicted that it plays the important role in diagnosis. Hence, he named it as BENCE JONES PROTEIN. It's the "First Biochemical Test for Detection of Cancer."
🔹During his career, he was very intimate with the champions Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Florence Nightingale and most close with the physicist Michael Faraday.
🔹In addition, Dr.Bence Jones had written several scientific papers and published many scientific books 📚 including the comprehensive biography of Michael Faraday's The Life and Letters of Faraday in 1870.
🔹Eventually, The Founder of Modern Nursing "Florence Nightingale" had highly praised him as "The Best Chemical Doctor in London."
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician Who Emphasised the Value of Urine Analysis
The Father of Clinical Chemistry
Dr.Henry Bence Jones🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-21 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Prof. Dr. Paul Karrer
April 21,1889 - June 18,1971
💠Swish Organic Chemist
💠Discoverer of Vitamin A, B2, E & K
His contributions......
🔸Paul Karrer was born in Moscow. His parents were Swiss nationals and his father was a dentist.
🔸He studied chemistry at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and earned his Ph.D. in 1911.
🔸After his studies, he continued to teach and research at the University of Zurich till his retirement in 1959.
🔸Initially, Karrer worked under Prof. Alfred Werner, who was the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. After that, he joined to work under Dr. Paul Ehrlich, a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, who discovered Salvarsan, the ‘magic bullet’ against syphilis.
🔸During his research, his attention gone to colored red-orange pigment, which is normally abundant in plants and fruits. Thereby, he extracted the Yellow carotenoids from carrot and established the correct formula for beta-carotene, the precursor of Vitamin A.
🔸Further, he extended his research and became first to unravel the chemical structure of several vitamins and also the first to synthesis these vitamins....
🔅Vitamin A (Retinol) in 1931
🔅Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) in 1935
🔅Vitamin E (Tocopherol) in 1938
🔅Vitamin K (Phytonadione) in 1939
🔸Moreover, he confirmed the structure of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), which was discovered by the British chemist Sir Norman Haworth.
🔸In order to honor his ground-breaking discovery on carotenoids, flavins and vitamin A and B, he was awarded with Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He then shared the prize with Sir Norman Haworth, who won it for his research on the structural formula of carbohydrates and vitamin C.
A Day to Commemorate......
An Eminent Scientist
Prof. Dr. Paul Karrer 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-22 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr. Robert Barany
April 22,1876-April 8, 1936
💠Austrian-Hungarian Neurophysiologist & Otologist
His contributions....
🔹Barany was born in Vienna. Unfortunately, he was suffered by tuberculosis of bones during his school days, which resulted in permanent knee stiffness. This painful illness had pushed him to get into the field of medicine.
🔹He enrolled himself in Vienna University and completed his MD degree in 1900. Subsequently, he joined to work as an assistant under the Prof. Adam Politzer, who was the first teacher of Otology at Vienna University.
🔹While he was treating the patients with ear infections, Dr. Barany noticed that few patients had experienced dizziness accompanied by nystagmus in eyes, while irrigating the external auditory canals with a syringe.
🔹Then he studied the role of endolymph of semicircular canal, vestibular nuclei and the centers controlling eye muscle movement in response to warm and cold water irrigation, which is named as Barany Caloric Response Test.
🔹Thereupon, he volunteer himself in the First World War, and served as a civilian surgeon in the Austrian army. But unfortunately, he was captured by Russian army and prisoned in the war camp. He continued treating the soldiers even in the camp.
🔹By considering his previous work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus, he was being nominated for Nobel Committee seven times. Finally in the year 1914, Dr.Barany was awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
🔹But Dr. Barany was not able to receive the award in 1914. Then after a personal intervention done by Prince Carl of Sweden on behalf of Red Cross, Dr.Barany was released to receive his award from the King of Sweden in Nobel Prize awards ceremony at Stockholm, Sweden in 1916.
🔹Thereafter, Dr. Baranry spent the rest of his life in Sweden. There, he continued his contribution to otolaryngology by developing a new Otolaryngology clinic and also became a Professor of an Otological Institute in Uppsala University.
🔹Moreover, he was the first, who described the Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) of the posterior canal, which was published in 1921.
🔹His eponyms......
🔅 Barany's Past Pointing Test - A useful diagnostic aid in detecting cerebellar dysfunction.
🔅 Barany Syndrome - Consists of unilateral deafness, vertigo and pain in occipital region seen in migraine or inner ear infection
🔅 Barany Box - A noise box used in audiology test to detect deafness
🔅 Barany Chair - A device which is used in Aerospace Physiology Training for student pilots for spatial orientation as well as used to correct motion sickness.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Father of Otoneurology and Vestibular functions
Dr. Robert Barany 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar.MD.
Coimbatore.
April 22,1876-April 8, 1936
💠Austrian-Hungarian Neurophysiologist & Otologist
His contributions....
🔹Barany was born in Vienna. Unfortunately, he was suffered by tuberculosis of bones during his school days, which resulted in permanent knee stiffness. This painful illness had pushed him to get into the field of medicine.
🔹He enrolled himself in Vienna University and completed his MD degree in 1900. Subsequently, he joined to work as an assistant under the Prof. Adam Politzer, who was the first teacher of Otology at Vienna University.
🔹While he was treating the patients with ear infections, Dr. Barany noticed that few patients had experienced dizziness accompanied by nystagmus in eyes, while irrigating the external auditory canals with a syringe.
🔹Then he studied the role of endolymph of semicircular canal, vestibular nuclei and the centers controlling eye muscle movement in response to warm and cold water irrigation, which is named as Barany Caloric Response Test.
🔹Thereupon, he volunteer himself in the First World War, and served as a civilian surgeon in the Austrian army. But unfortunately, he was captured by Russian army and prisoned in the war camp. He continued treating the soldiers even in the camp.
🔹By considering his previous work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus, he was being nominated for Nobel Committee seven times. Finally in the year 1914, Dr.Barany was awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
🔹But Dr. Barany was not able to receive the award in 1914. Then after a personal intervention done by Prince Carl of Sweden on behalf of Red Cross, Dr.Barany was released to receive his award from the King of Sweden in Nobel Prize awards ceremony at Stockholm, Sweden in 1916.
🔹Thereafter, Dr. Baranry spent the rest of his life in Sweden. There, he continued his contribution to otolaryngology by developing a new Otolaryngology clinic and also became a Professor of an Otological Institute in Uppsala University.
🔹Moreover, he was the first, who described the Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) of the posterior canal, which was published in 1921.
🔹His eponyms......
🔅 Barany's Past Pointing Test - A useful diagnostic aid in detecting cerebellar dysfunction.
🔅 Barany Syndrome - Consists of unilateral deafness, vertigo and pain in occipital region seen in migraine or inner ear infection
🔅 Barany Box - A noise box used in audiology test to detect deafness
🔅 Barany Chair - A device which is used in Aerospace Physiology Training for student pilots for spatial orientation as well as used to correct motion sickness.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Father of Otoneurology and Vestibular functions
Dr. Robert Barany 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar.MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-23 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Minoru Shirota
April 23,1899 - March 10,1982
💠Japanese Microbiologist
His contributions....
🔸Shirota was born and rised in Western Nagano, Japan.
🔸In the early 20th century, Japan was not prosperous and people were dying especially children due to infectious diseases, cholera, dysentery and malnutrition.
🔸That terrible situation of his country had made him to study medicine and he committed himself to find a drug to prevent the spread of those diseases.
🔸He studied medicine at Medical school of Kyoto University in 1921. He then completed his Ph.D in Medicine and joined as the faculty of medicine at Kyoto University.
🔸Dr.Shirota strongly believed that "Prevention is better than cure."
🔸Hence, he focussed his research on microorganism and after the long years of his research, he isolated a strain Lactobacillus in 1930.
🔸Further, he was the first in the world had successfully cultured the Lactobacillus bacterium and named it as Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain.
🔸The name reveals that....
🔅 Lactobacillus casei is a small rod-shaped microorganism first discovered in cheese🧀 (widely available in cheese)
🔅 "strain Shirota" is a strain isolated & named by Dr. Shirota.
🔸Also, he believed that lactobacillus would support in improving the functioning of the digestive system and helps to build immunity. Therefore, he used that strain and developed the Yakult in 1935.
🔸Basically, Yakult is a delicious probiotic drink, which contains billions of lactobacillus to promote the balance of intestinal flora.
🔸Initiallty, Yakult was marketed in Japan and thereby Japan became the global🌏 leader in probiotic drink with global tagline of "The Kiss of Good Health".
🔸Moreover, Lactobacillus casei is widely used along with other probiotics in treating acute and infectious diarrhea as well as used in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea and Clostridium difficile infections.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Founding Father of Probiotics
The Promoter of Preventive Medicine
Dr. Minoru Shirota 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Dr. Gerhard Domegk
Oct 30,1895 - April 24,1964
💠German Bacteriologist
💠Discoverer of First Sulphonamide Drug
His contributions.....
🔹While Domegk was studying medicine at the University of Kiel, he volunteered himself to serve as a soldier in World War I. At the same time, he was also being a physician in the war field.
🔹In the war field, he found civilians and soldiers were severely suffering from cholera, dysentery, typhus diseases and also he witnessed amputations due to gas gangrene.
🔹After the war, he completed his medical studies and started his research at Bayer Laboratories, Germany.
🔹Even after receiving many unsuccessful results, he continued his research and finally used Red dye stuff and his team discovered the drug and released under the trade name as Prontosil in 1935.
🔹The development of Prontosil became the first drug to cure bacterial infections and the era of sulfonamides begins...
🔹Further, Dr. Domegk had personally used Prontosil for treating his 4 year old daughter, who was severely infected with streptococcal infection. His research was successful as she was completely recovered.
🔹In fact, Prontosil was used mostly to fight bacterial infections from 1935 to 1942. But the usage of Penicillin during World War II had shifted the focus away from Prontosil and the sulfa drugs.
🔹Even before such changes happened, Dr. Domagk and his team had turned to new area of research in combating tuberculosis. They contributed to the discovery of new Anti tuberculosis drugs like Thiosemicarbazone and Isoniazid to combat tuberculosis.
🔹He also launched the 10% Zephirol (benzyl ammonium chloride), a skin disinfectant being used till date to disinfect hands and instruments.
🔹Ultimately, he was honored with the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1939 for his discovery of the first sulfa drug.
🔹But unfortunately, he was unable to receive the Nobel Prize at the time because German scientists were not permitted to accept the prize as per their Nazi German's policy.
🔹Finally in 1947, Dr. Domagk traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to accept his award. On his prescient speech in his Nobel Prize Ceremony, he warned of the risks of antibiotic resistance.
🔹Moreover, Sir Alexander Fleming had summed up Dr. Domagk's performance as "Without Domagk, no sulfonamides! Without sulfonamides, no penicillin! Without penicillin, no antibiotics."
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician with Scientific Curiosity
Dr.Gerhard Domegk🙏🏼
..............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Dr. Frank H. Netter
April 25,1906 - Sept 17,1991
💠American Physician
💠Master of Medical Illustrations
His contributions....
🔸During the school days, Netter used to spent his evening time in learning arts in an academic centre.
🔸But, his parents disapproved his artist career and urging him to become a physician.
🔸Hence, he left his interest to become artist and went to study medicine at New York University School of Medicine and then completed his internship in 1933.
🔸While on his medical training, he was also freelancing his illustration paintings for his friends, professors and to pharmaceutical companies, which brought a great attention.
🔸In 1936, he gave up his clinical practice and joint with CIBA Pharmaceutical Company (now Novartis) and started publishing his illustrations in brochure, magazines and text books.
🔸During his prolific career, he made revolutionary discoveries in modern medicine. He was the first to illustrate the first open heart surgical operations, the first organ transplants and the first human joint replacement.
🔸His admiring illustration paintings published in the name of "The Netter Collections of Medical Illustrations" as 13 Volumes consists of anatomy, physiology and pathology of all the systems comprising the human body.
🔸Moreover, he made a crowning achievement by publishing his first edition of the The Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy in 1989, which contains all his anatomical paintings and diagrams.
🔸Later, the atlas became the most popular and the best selling anatomy atlas in the world, translated in to 11 languages.
🔸Dr. Netter, himself acknowledged his Anatomy Atlas book as "His Sistine Chapel."
🔸Undoubtedly, throughout his distinguished career of six decades, he had produced more than 4000 illustrations which became a standard reference materials, educating generations of medical students in medical schools around the world.🌍
A Day to Commemorate....
Medicine's Michelangelo
Dr. Frank H. Netter 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Prof. Dr. Theodor Billroth
April 26,1829 - Feb 6,1894
💠Austrian Surgeon
💠Father of Modern Abdominal Surgery
His contributions ....
🔹Billroth’s family was a Swedish citizens. Unfortunately, Billroth lost his father when he was five years old. Then, he was brought up by his mother. He was interested in studies as well as in playing piano.
🔹As per his mother's wish, he enrolled to study medicine at the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin at Germany and received his graduation in 1852.
🔹He then began his career as the faculty at the University of Vienna and later became the Professor of Surgery.
🔹In fact, Dr. Billroth is considered as one of the most innovative surgeon and educator of 19th century. He was also an early adopter of White coat and also Anti-septic techniques in surgical practice.
🔹In Vienna, he had created one of the finest schools in the history of surgery where he carried out pioneering work in experimental studies, surgical pathology and operative surgery.
🔹He also created many significant milestones in the field of Surgery. Those are as follows:-
🔅In 1871, he successfully did the first esophagectomy
🔅In 1873, he did the first laryngectomy
🔅In 1876, the first surgeon excised rectal cancer
🔅In 1879, he did first pylorectomy
🔅In 1881, he was the first who performed partial gastrectomy for gastric tumor
🔹Moreover, his successful execution of operation had initiated the Modern Era of Surgery.
🔹As well as, he served as a military surgeon during the French-German War. His popular talk on War Budget had emphasized the need of effective ambulance system 🚑 in the war field.
🔹Apart from that, he was a talented amateur Pianist 🎹 and Violinist 🎻. He was the very first person who made an attempt to do a scientific study on music🎼.
🔹Additionally, he had published many articles and books in the field of medicine. His dream work and great innovative study on "Physiology of Music" was published after his death.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Man of Excellence in Vocation and Avocation
The Great Surgical Giant
Prof. Dr. Theodor Billroth 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
April 23,1899 - March 10,1982
💠Japanese Microbiologist
His contributions....
🔸Shirota was born and rised in Western Nagano, Japan.
🔸In the early 20th century, Japan was not prosperous and people were dying especially children due to infectious diseases, cholera, dysentery and malnutrition.
🔸That terrible situation of his country had made him to study medicine and he committed himself to find a drug to prevent the spread of those diseases.
🔸He studied medicine at Medical school of Kyoto University in 1921. He then completed his Ph.D in Medicine and joined as the faculty of medicine at Kyoto University.
🔸Dr.Shirota strongly believed that "Prevention is better than cure."
🔸Hence, he focussed his research on microorganism and after the long years of his research, he isolated a strain Lactobacillus in 1930.
🔸Further, he was the first in the world had successfully cultured the Lactobacillus bacterium and named it as Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain.
🔸The name reveals that....
🔅 Lactobacillus casei is a small rod-shaped microorganism first discovered in cheese🧀 (widely available in cheese)
🔅 "strain Shirota" is a strain isolated & named by Dr. Shirota.
🔸Also, he believed that lactobacillus would support in improving the functioning of the digestive system and helps to build immunity. Therefore, he used that strain and developed the Yakult in 1935.
🔸Basically, Yakult is a delicious probiotic drink, which contains billions of lactobacillus to promote the balance of intestinal flora.
🔸Initiallty, Yakult was marketed in Japan and thereby Japan became the global🌏 leader in probiotic drink with global tagline of "The Kiss of Good Health".
🔸Moreover, Lactobacillus casei is widely used along with other probiotics in treating acute and infectious diarrhea as well as used in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea and Clostridium difficile infections.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Founding Father of Probiotics
The Promoter of Preventive Medicine
Dr. Minoru Shirota 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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Dr. Gerhard Domegk
Oct 30,1895 - April 24,1964
💠German Bacteriologist
💠Discoverer of First Sulphonamide Drug
His contributions.....
🔹While Domegk was studying medicine at the University of Kiel, he volunteered himself to serve as a soldier in World War I. At the same time, he was also being a physician in the war field.
🔹In the war field, he found civilians and soldiers were severely suffering from cholera, dysentery, typhus diseases and also he witnessed amputations due to gas gangrene.
🔹After the war, he completed his medical studies and started his research at Bayer Laboratories, Germany.
🔹Even after receiving many unsuccessful results, he continued his research and finally used Red dye stuff and his team discovered the drug and released under the trade name as Prontosil in 1935.
🔹The development of Prontosil became the first drug to cure bacterial infections and the era of sulfonamides begins...
🔹Further, Dr. Domegk had personally used Prontosil for treating his 4 year old daughter, who was severely infected with streptococcal infection. His research was successful as she was completely recovered.
🔹In fact, Prontosil was used mostly to fight bacterial infections from 1935 to 1942. But the usage of Penicillin during World War II had shifted the focus away from Prontosil and the sulfa drugs.
🔹Even before such changes happened, Dr. Domagk and his team had turned to new area of research in combating tuberculosis. They contributed to the discovery of new Anti tuberculosis drugs like Thiosemicarbazone and Isoniazid to combat tuberculosis.
🔹He also launched the 10% Zephirol (benzyl ammonium chloride), a skin disinfectant being used till date to disinfect hands and instruments.
🔹Ultimately, he was honored with the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1939 for his discovery of the first sulfa drug.
🔹But unfortunately, he was unable to receive the Nobel Prize at the time because German scientists were not permitted to accept the prize as per their Nazi German's policy.
🔹Finally in 1947, Dr. Domagk traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to accept his award. On his prescient speech in his Nobel Prize Ceremony, he warned of the risks of antibiotic resistance.
🔹Moreover, Sir Alexander Fleming had summed up Dr. Domagk's performance as "Without Domagk, no sulfonamides! Without sulfonamides, no penicillin! Without penicillin, no antibiotics."
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician with Scientific Curiosity
Dr.Gerhard Domegk🙏🏼
..............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-25 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr. Frank H. Netter
April 25,1906 - Sept 17,1991
💠American Physician
💠Master of Medical Illustrations
His contributions....
🔸During the school days, Netter used to spent his evening time in learning arts in an academic centre.
🔸But, his parents disapproved his artist career and urging him to become a physician.
🔸Hence, he left his interest to become artist and went to study medicine at New York University School of Medicine and then completed his internship in 1933.
🔸While on his medical training, he was also freelancing his illustration paintings for his friends, professors and to pharmaceutical companies, which brought a great attention.
🔸In 1936, he gave up his clinical practice and joint with CIBA Pharmaceutical Company (now Novartis) and started publishing his illustrations in brochure, magazines and text books.
🔸During his prolific career, he made revolutionary discoveries in modern medicine. He was the first to illustrate the first open heart surgical operations, the first organ transplants and the first human joint replacement.
🔸His admiring illustration paintings published in the name of "The Netter Collections of Medical Illustrations" as 13 Volumes consists of anatomy, physiology and pathology of all the systems comprising the human body.
🔸Moreover, he made a crowning achievement by publishing his first edition of the The Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy in 1989, which contains all his anatomical paintings and diagrams.
🔸Later, the atlas became the most popular and the best selling anatomy atlas in the world, translated in to 11 languages.
🔸Dr. Netter, himself acknowledged his Anatomy Atlas book as "His Sistine Chapel."
🔸Undoubtedly, throughout his distinguished career of six decades, he had produced more than 4000 illustrations which became a standard reference materials, educating generations of medical students in medical schools around the world.🌍
A Day to Commemorate....
Medicine's Michelangelo
Dr. Frank H. Netter 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-26 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
April 26,1829 - Feb 6,1894
💠Austrian Surgeon
💠Father of Modern Abdominal Surgery
His contributions ....
🔹Billroth’s family was a Swedish citizens. Unfortunately, Billroth lost his father when he was five years old. Then, he was brought up by his mother. He was interested in studies as well as in playing piano.
🔹As per his mother's wish, he enrolled to study medicine at the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin at Germany and received his graduation in 1852.
🔹He then began his career as the faculty at the University of Vienna and later became the Professor of Surgery.
🔹In fact, Dr. Billroth is considered as one of the most innovative surgeon and educator of 19th century. He was also an early adopter of White coat and also Anti-septic techniques in surgical practice.
🔹In Vienna, he had created one of the finest schools in the history of surgery where he carried out pioneering work in experimental studies, surgical pathology and operative surgery.
🔹He also created many significant milestones in the field of Surgery. Those are as follows:-
🔅In 1871, he successfully did the first esophagectomy
🔅In 1873, he did the first laryngectomy
🔅In 1876, the first surgeon excised rectal cancer
🔅In 1879, he did first pylorectomy
🔅In 1881, he was the first who performed partial gastrectomy for gastric tumor
🔹Moreover, his successful execution of operation had initiated the Modern Era of Surgery.
🔹As well as, he served as a military surgeon during the French-German War. His popular talk on War Budget had emphasized the need of effective ambulance system 🚑 in the war field.
🔹Apart from that, he was a talented amateur Pianist 🎹 and Violinist 🎻. He was the very first person who made an attempt to do a scientific study on music🎼.
🔹Additionally, he had published many articles and books in the field of medicine. His dream work and great innovative study on "Physiology of Music" was published after his death.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Man of Excellence in Vocation and Avocation
The Great Surgical Giant
Prof. Dr. Theodor Billroth 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-27 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr. Valeri Polyakov
April 27, 1942
💠Russian Physician & Cosmonaut
His contributions....
🔹Valeri Polyakov studied medicine at Moscow Medical Institute and received his graduation in 1960.
🔹He was highly inspired by the physician Dr. Boris Yegorov, who made the first space flight in 1964. Hence, Dr. Polyakov decided to specialize in space medicine.
🔹Subsequently, he undergone the space flight training in the Russian cosmonaut team in 1971. After that, he joined with a team who was offering the medical support for crews in the space station.
🔹In the year 1988, he successfully travelled his first spaceflight SOYUZ linked with MIR Space Station. Where he spent around 240 days in space to study the effects of microgravity on human body.
🔹He further did his second spaceflight in 1994 on SOYUZ TM-18 flight all alone for 438 consecutive days in MIR space station. Which holds the WORLD RECORD for the longest single stay in space in human history.
🔹During this second flight, he orbited the earth 7075 times and travelled 1,86,887,000 miles. After his biggest accomplishment, he landed safely on march 22, 1995.
🔹In space, he voluntarily prolonged his stay to prove that the human could survive in microgravity for long period of time.
🔹While his stay in space, he conducted medical and physiological researches which were the components of International Space Medicine Project.
🔹Finally, he made his first statement back on earth as
"We can fly to Mars" and he said that "My goal was to demonstrate the ability to work on Mars and come back in good health."
............................................................
The Real Iron-man of Spaceflight
Dr. Valeri Polyakov 🙏🏼
Celebrating his birthday today💐
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-28 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr. Louis Virgil Hamman
Dec 20, 1877 - April 28, 1946
💠American Physician
His contributions.....
🔹Hamman was born in Baltimore, U.S. He studied medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and earned his M.D. in 1901.
🔹He then began his career as a faculty in The Johns Hopkins Hospital and performed his next 30 years as a skilful physician.
🔹In fact, his distinguished diagnostic skills had made him to recognize as one of the best clinician in his period.
🔹During his career, he was interested in focusing on Pulmonary tuberculosis. Which was leading him to begin a Tuberculosis clinic at The John Hopkins Hospital.
🔹He was also a co-author of a book called Tuberculin in Diagnosis and Treatment.
🔹Moreover, he was one of the first to outline the Principles of Glucose Tolerance Test and described the response of blood sugar to orally administered glucose.
🔹His eponymous
🔅 Hamman syndrome or disease- Spontaneous subcutaneous emphysema along with pneumo-mediastinum
🔅 Hammans sign- Crunching sound synchronous with the heartbeat heard in pneumo-mediastinum
🔅 Hamman-Rich syndrome also known as acute interstitial pneumonitis.
🔹In order to honor his service, the General Medical Clinic at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was renamed as Hamman-Baker Medical Clinic in the year 1975.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Skillful Physician
Dr. Louis Virgil Hamman 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Dec 20, 1877 - April 28, 1946
💠American Physician
His contributions.....
🔹Hamman was born in Baltimore, U.S. He studied medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and earned his M.D. in 1901.
🔹He then began his career as a faculty in The Johns Hopkins Hospital and performed his next 30 years as a skilful physician.
🔹In fact, his distinguished diagnostic skills had made him to recognize as one of the best clinician in his period.
🔹During his career, he was interested in focusing on Pulmonary tuberculosis. Which was leading him to begin a Tuberculosis clinic at The John Hopkins Hospital.
🔹He was also a co-author of a book called Tuberculin in Diagnosis and Treatment.
🔹Moreover, he was one of the first to outline the Principles of Glucose Tolerance Test and described the response of blood sugar to orally administered glucose.
🔹His eponymous
🔅 Hamman syndrome or disease- Spontaneous subcutaneous emphysema along with pneumo-mediastinum
🔅 Hammans sign- Crunching sound synchronous with the heartbeat heard in pneumo-mediastinum
🔅 Hamman-Rich syndrome also known as acute interstitial pneumonitis.
🔹In order to honor his service, the General Medical Clinic at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was renamed as Hamman-Baker Medical Clinic in the year 1975.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Skillful Physician
Dr. Louis Virgil Hamman 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE APRIL-28 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Prof.Dr.Eugen Bleuler
April 30,1857-July 14,1939
💠Swish Psychiatrist
💠Pioneer in the field of Psychosis
His contributions....
🔹Bleuler was brought up from farmer background. When he was young his elder sister was suffered from mental illness and she was treated in asylum. This painful experience stimulated him to become a psychiatrist to help patient with similar illness.
🔹He studied medicine and got his graduation from the University of Zurich in 1881.
🔹After completing his studies, he made a medical study trip to many countries and worked with various psychiatrist and neuroanatomist.
🔹After that, he got appointed as a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich and later became a Director of the Burgholzli Asylum in Zurich.
🔹In the year 1908, he coined the term "Schizophrenia" to describe the disorder, which was previously known as Dementia praecox. He derived the term schizophrenia from Greek root Schizo (split) and phren (mind) -Describing the fragmented thinking of patients with this disorder.
🔹He further introduced the concept of primary and secondary symptoms of schizophrenia.
The primary symptoms are 4A's
🔅Abnormal Affect
🔅Autism
🔅Ambivalence
🔅Abnormal Associations
🔹He called social withdrawl, delusions, hallucinations are secondary symptoms.
🔹In fact, Dr. Bleuler had a intimate friendship with Dr. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
🔹Thereby, Dr. Bleuler was fascinated by psychoanalysis and became one of the first to grant psychoanalysis to treat psychosis.
🔹Moreover, he had produced many publications as follows ...
🔅In 1911, he published his monograph Dementia Praecox or The Group of Schizophrenia.
🔅In 1916, his book called Treatment in Psychiatry, which was the standard book in psychiatry for decades.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Intellectual Man
A Rational Pychiatrist
Prof. Dr. Eugen Bleuler 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
April 30,1857-July 14,1939
💠Swish Psychiatrist
💠Pioneer in the field of Psychosis
His contributions....
🔹Bleuler was brought up from farmer background. When he was young his elder sister was suffered from mental illness and she was treated in asylum. This painful experience stimulated him to become a psychiatrist to help patient with similar illness.
🔹He studied medicine and got his graduation from the University of Zurich in 1881.
🔹After completing his studies, he made a medical study trip to many countries and worked with various psychiatrist and neuroanatomist.
🔹After that, he got appointed as a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich and later became a Director of the Burgholzli Asylum in Zurich.
🔹In the year 1908, he coined the term "Schizophrenia" to describe the disorder, which was previously known as Dementia praecox. He derived the term schizophrenia from Greek root Schizo (split) and phren (mind) -Describing the fragmented thinking of patients with this disorder.
🔹He further introduced the concept of primary and secondary symptoms of schizophrenia.
The primary symptoms are 4A's
🔅Abnormal Affect
🔅Autism
🔅Ambivalence
🔅Abnormal Associations
🔹He called social withdrawl, delusions, hallucinations are secondary symptoms.
🔹In fact, Dr. Bleuler had a intimate friendship with Dr. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
🔹Thereby, Dr. Bleuler was fascinated by psychoanalysis and became one of the first to grant psychoanalysis to treat psychosis.
🔹Moreover, he had produced many publications as follows ...
🔅In 1911, he published his monograph Dementia Praecox or The Group of Schizophrenia.
🔅In 1916, his book called Treatment in Psychiatry, which was the standard book in psychiatry for decades.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Intellectual Man
A Rational Pychiatrist
Prof. Dr. Eugen Bleuler 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-01 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Santiago Ramon y cajal
May 1, 1852 - Oct 17,1934
💠Spanish Neuroscientist
💠Father of Modern Neuroscience
His contributions....
🔹Dr. Ramon y Cajal is considered as the Father of Modern Neuroscience. Apart from medicine, he was an elegant painter and very much skilled in transforming the visible onto the paper.
🔹He studied medicine and received his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Saragosa in 1870.
🔹His father was working in the same institute as an anatomist, while he was studying there. By his guidance, Cajal became skillful in anatomical dissection.
🔹After his studies, Dr.Cajal began his career as a faculty and then became a Professor of Anatomy in the University of Madrid in 1892. There, he dedicated his next 30 years of life in investigating the brain structures.
🔹In order to support his brain studies, he additionally introduced many staining methods like gold stain and further he improved Italian biologist Dr.Golgi's silver nitrate stain method.
🔹In fact, he was an early adopter of microscope. By using his staining methods, he revealed the underlying histology of cerebrum, cerebellum, retina, spinal cord of embryo and muscles.
🔹Moreover, he was the first to state that the brain is made up of neurons and these are separated from one another by microscopic gaps (later called synapses by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington).
🔹Further, his investigation led to develop "NEURON DOCTRINE," which became a foundation for neuroscience.
🔹To honour the ground-breaking work on the structure of the nervous system, Dr.Cajal and Dr.Camillo Golgi, were awarded with shared Nobel Prize of Medicine or Physiology in 1906.
🔹His eponyms....
🔅Cajal cells or astrocytes
🔅Cajal-Retzius cells- A cell type in the marginal zone/layer I of the developmental cerebral cortex
🔅Interstitial cell of Cajal- A type of interstitial cell found in the GI tract
🔹Over the five decades, he had created 2900 Neuroanatomical drawings through his sketches. He also made hand drawings for an Atlas of Anatomy and Histology with meticulous technical illustrations.
🔹The highly praised classical scientist, Dr. Cajal had finally described that "Neurones are telegraphic threads of consciousness."
A Day to Commemorate....
A Physician Laid Foundation For Neuroscience
A Neurophysician With Beautiful Brain 🧠
Dr.Santiago Ramon y cajal 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
May 1, 1852 - Oct 17,1934
💠Spanish Neuroscientist
💠Father of Modern Neuroscience
His contributions....
🔹Dr. Ramon y Cajal is considered as the Father of Modern Neuroscience. Apart from medicine, he was an elegant painter and very much skilled in transforming the visible onto the paper.
🔹He studied medicine and received his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Saragosa in 1870.
🔹His father was working in the same institute as an anatomist, while he was studying there. By his guidance, Cajal became skillful in anatomical dissection.
🔹After his studies, Dr.Cajal began his career as a faculty and then became a Professor of Anatomy in the University of Madrid in 1892. There, he dedicated his next 30 years of life in investigating the brain structures.
🔹In order to support his brain studies, he additionally introduced many staining methods like gold stain and further he improved Italian biologist Dr.Golgi's silver nitrate stain method.
🔹In fact, he was an early adopter of microscope. By using his staining methods, he revealed the underlying histology of cerebrum, cerebellum, retina, spinal cord of embryo and muscles.
🔹Moreover, he was the first to state that the brain is made up of neurons and these are separated from one another by microscopic gaps (later called synapses by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington).
🔹Further, his investigation led to develop "NEURON DOCTRINE," which became a foundation for neuroscience.
🔹To honour the ground-breaking work on the structure of the nervous system, Dr.Cajal and Dr.Camillo Golgi, were awarded with shared Nobel Prize of Medicine or Physiology in 1906.
🔹His eponyms....
🔅Cajal cells or astrocytes
🔅Cajal-Retzius cells- A cell type in the marginal zone/layer I of the developmental cerebral cortex
🔅Interstitial cell of Cajal- A type of interstitial cell found in the GI tract
🔹Over the five decades, he had created 2900 Neuroanatomical drawings through his sketches. He also made hand drawings for an Atlas of Anatomy and Histology with meticulous technical illustrations.
🔹The highly praised classical scientist, Dr. Cajal had finally described that "Neurones are telegraphic threads of consciousness."
A Day to Commemorate....
A Physician Laid Foundation For Neuroscience
A Neurophysician With Beautiful Brain 🧠
Dr.Santiago Ramon y cajal 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-01 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
[6:18 am, 02/05/2020] +91 81568 57575: Dr. Soumya Swaminathan. MD
May 2, 1959
🇮🇳 Indian Pediatrician & Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation 🇮🇳
Her contributions....
🔹Dr.Soumya is the daughter of well recognized "Father of Indian Green Revolution" Dr. M.S Swaminathan. Her mother Meena Swaminathan is an Indian educationist in the field of school education.
🔹Dr. Soumya was highly inspired by her parents because they devoted themselves in their field. she studied medicine in Armed Force Medical College, Pune and completed her MD from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
🔹She further did her Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Pediatrics at U.K and U.S.
🔹Moreover, she is a globally recognized researcher on tuberculosis and HIV. She was actually contributed herself to clinical care and research for around 30 years. In all over her career, she was very focused to translate research into impactful programs.
🔹She also served as coordinator of the UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO's special program for research and training in tropical diseases.
🔹Thereafter, she worked as the Director General of India at Indian Centre of Medical Research (ICMR) - An apex body in biomedical research.
🔹Additionally, she has published more than 350 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.
🔹Later, she got appointed as the Deputy Director General of Programmes at the World Health Organisation and served from October 2017 to March 2019.
🔹In fact, she is the first Indian holds the highest rank in WHO. She said "I don't take it as a personal recognition, but really a recognition that...an Indian voice should be there in the WHO."
🔹Since March 2019, she is being the Chief Scientist of the WHO. Presently, she leading a seminal role in combating Covid-19.
............................................................
The Pride of India &
A Dynamic Woman
🇮🇳 Dr.Soumya Swaminathan 🇮🇳 Celebrating her birthday today 💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
[6:44 am, 02/05/2020] +974 7778 8155: 👍
[6:44 am, 02/05/2020] +974 7778 8155: 👍
May 2, 1959
🇮🇳 Indian Pediatrician & Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation 🇮🇳
Her contributions....
🔹Dr.Soumya is the daughter of well recognized "Father of Indian Green Revolution" Dr. M.S Swaminathan. Her mother Meena Swaminathan is an Indian educationist in the field of school education.
🔹Dr. Soumya was highly inspired by her parents because they devoted themselves in their field. she studied medicine in Armed Force Medical College, Pune and completed her MD from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
🔹She further did her Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Pediatrics at U.K and U.S.
🔹Moreover, she is a globally recognized researcher on tuberculosis and HIV. She was actually contributed herself to clinical care and research for around 30 years. In all over her career, she was very focused to translate research into impactful programs.
🔹She also served as coordinator of the UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO's special program for research and training in tropical diseases.
🔹Thereafter, she worked as the Director General of India at Indian Centre of Medical Research (ICMR) - An apex body in biomedical research.
🔹Additionally, she has published more than 350 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.
🔹Later, she got appointed as the Deputy Director General of Programmes at the World Health Organisation and served from October 2017 to March 2019.
🔹In fact, she is the first Indian holds the highest rank in WHO. She said "I don't take it as a personal recognition, but really a recognition that...an Indian voice should be there in the WHO."
🔹Since March 2019, she is being the Chief Scientist of the WHO. Presently, she leading a seminal role in combating Covid-19.
............................................................
The Pride of India &
A Dynamic Woman
🇮🇳 Dr.Soumya Swaminathan 🇮🇳 Celebrating her birthday today 💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
[6:44 am, 02/05/2020] +974 7778 8155: 👍
[6:44 am, 02/05/2020] +974 7778 8155: 👍
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-03 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Howard Taylor Ricketts
Feb 9, 1871-May 3, 1910
💠American Pathologist
His contributions....
🔸Ricketts studied medicine and got his medical graduation from Northwestern University of Medical School in United States. Subsequently, he had taken a professional training in Vienna and in Pasteur Institute at Paris.
🔸He joined as a faculty at the University of Chicago and started his career by studying blastomycosis. Further his interest in immunology had motivated him to publish a book called "Infection, Immunity and Serum therapy."
🔸In early 1890, he spent around four years in laboratory and in the field particularly to investigate the high fatal Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
🔸Earlier this fever was called as "Black Measels" in United States, because of it characteristic rashes.
🔸Thereafter, Dr.Ricketts had made a breakthrough by isolating the microorganism in the blood of victims and discovered the mode of spread by the vector ticks.
🔸As well as in 1910, he paid an attention to focus on Epidemic Typhus Fever during outbreak in Mexico.
🔸Consequently, he discovered that Epidemic typhus was getting transmitted by the body louse and also identified the disease-causing organism both in the blood of the victim and in the bodies of the lice.
🔸Since he was devoted to his research, he used to inject himself with pathogens to measure the effect on several occasions. Unfortunately he died during his research by contracted typhus at the age of 39 years.
🔸To honour his tremendous work, the scientific committee named the causative pathogen of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever as Rickettsia Rickettsii and for epidemic typus as Rickettsia prowazekii and the larger family as Rickettsiaceae and order as Rickettsiales.
🔸Additionally his family members established "The Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize" for the students, who are presenting the best of research in bacteriology at the University of Chicago.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Most Courageous and Devoted Physician
Dr.Howard Taylor Ricketts🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Feb 9, 1871-May 3, 1910
💠American Pathologist
His contributions....
🔸Ricketts studied medicine and got his medical graduation from Northwestern University of Medical School in United States. Subsequently, he had taken a professional training in Vienna and in Pasteur Institute at Paris.
🔸He joined as a faculty at the University of Chicago and started his career by studying blastomycosis. Further his interest in immunology had motivated him to publish a book called "Infection, Immunity and Serum therapy."
🔸In early 1890, he spent around four years in laboratory and in the field particularly to investigate the high fatal Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
🔸Earlier this fever was called as "Black Measels" in United States, because of it characteristic rashes.
🔸Thereafter, Dr.Ricketts had made a breakthrough by isolating the microorganism in the blood of victims and discovered the mode of spread by the vector ticks.
🔸As well as in 1910, he paid an attention to focus on Epidemic Typhus Fever during outbreak in Mexico.
🔸Consequently, he discovered that Epidemic typhus was getting transmitted by the body louse and also identified the disease-causing organism both in the blood of the victim and in the bodies of the lice.
🔸Since he was devoted to his research, he used to inject himself with pathogens to measure the effect on several occasions. Unfortunately he died during his research by contracted typhus at the age of 39 years.
🔸To honour his tremendous work, the scientific committee named the causative pathogen of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever as Rickettsia Rickettsii and for epidemic typus as Rickettsia prowazekii and the larger family as Rickettsiaceae and order as Rickettsiales.
🔸Additionally his family members established "The Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize" for the students, who are presenting the best of research in bacteriology at the University of Chicago.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Most Courageous and Devoted Physician
Dr.Howard Taylor Ricketts🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-05 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Hermann Oppenheim
Jan 1,1858 - May 5, 1919
💠German Neurologist
His contributions....
🔸Oppenheim was praised as one of the leading Neurologist of Germany at his period.
🔸He studied medicine from the Universities of Berlin, Gottingen & Bonn in Germany.
🔸Because of the denial of his Professorship (Probably because of his Jewish descent), he established his own private polyclinic at Berlin in 1890, which was the first clinic opened at that period. Many of his scientific publications were emerged from his clinic. Hence his clinic became a recognized center for neurology.
🔸Subsequently, he paid attention on movement disorders and he was the first to describe Generalized Dystonia which he termed as Dystonia Musculorum Deformans.
🔸Further, he coined the word Dystonia in 1911 and first to define Restless Leg Syndrome as a neurological illness and first to recognize that it appears in families.
🔸Basically, he was a brilliant diagnostician and the first who described....
🔅Bladder symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis
🔅 Useless hands of Oppenheim's in Multiple Sclerosis- Hand loses useful function due to proprioception loss with relatively preserved motor function seen in ipsilateral demyelination in the posterior column of cervical cord
🔅Oppenheim's reflex in pyramidal tract lesion in 1902
🔅Oppenheims disease or amyotonia congenita.
🔸Moreover, he was considered as the most important historical figure in study of Music and Neurology.
🔸In the year 1889, he introduced the term Traumatic Neurosis and then he did an extensive research on a new type of war-related condition during first world war, which is known as War shakers or Shell shock. The soldiers of first world war was suffered with various disorders as shaking hands, tics, tremors, paralysis, locomotor disorders, mutism and those were collectively named as war shakers.
🔸Additionally, he wrote a book called "A Textbook of Neurology" published as seven editions and in various languages.
🔸Also, he was one of the founders of the German Journal of Neurology in 1890.
🔸At one particular moment, an American Neurologist Dr. William Spiller was asked to write a book on neurology. But he remarked that when I can write a better book than Dr. Oppenheim's I will do so.
🔸In fact, Dr.Oppenheim was denied in earlier days of his career, but later, he became a corner stone of his field. To honor his work, the German Dystonia Society is presenting "Oppenheim's Prize" for every two year to promote the research in the field of dystonia.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Neurologist 🧠
Dr.Hermann Oppenheim 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜ Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-06 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud
May 6, 1856 - Sept 23,1939
💠Austrian Neurologist & Psychiatrist
💠Father of Psychoanalysis
His contributions....
🔹Freud was recognized as one of the most influential thinker of early 20th century.
🔹During the 3rd year of his medical studies, he started his research in nervous system. Then he received his graduation from University of Vienna in 1881.
🔹Basically, he was a versatile reader of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy and influenced by Charles Darwin's "New Theory of Evolution". Also, he loved reading William Shakespeare in original english.
🔹Initially, he worked in various departments and started his career by publishing Aphasia Monograph in 1891, where he coined the word Agnosia.
🔹In fact, he was the early researcher of cerebral palsy and revealed that it was a brain disease, which normally affects the children before birth.
🔹Subsequently, he coined the term Psychoanalysis in 1896. By this new scientific method, he focussed the treatment of mental disorders by dealing with the mind and with mental illness.
🔹In the year 1902, he became a Professor in Vienna University. His new theory of psychology created range of followers and formalized as Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1908.
🔹Actually, he aimed to establish a Scientific Psychology, which led him to start publishing the studies on self-analysis entitled as
🔅Studies in hysteria (1895)
🔅The interpretation of dreams (1900)
🔅The Psychopathology of everydays life (1901)
🔅Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (1905)
🔅Three essays on the theory of sexuality (1905)
🔅Fragments of an analysis of a case of hysteria (1905)
🔅The ego and the id (1923)
🔅Civilization and its discontents (1930)
🔅Moses and Monotheism (1939)
🔹His ground breaking work in Psychology includes the below .....
🔅Structure of Personality consists of three parts - Id, ego and superego
🔅Stages of Psychosexual development
🔅The conscious and unconscious mind
🔅Life and death instinct
🔅Defence mechanism
🔹The above are the Drops in Freud's Ocean 🌊.
🔹Despite the passage of a whole century, many Freudian hypothesis were the most influential academic concepts of the 20th century.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Influential Thinker
Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud🙏🏼
..........................................................
⚜ Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-07 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Prof. Dr. Allan M. Cormack
Feb 23,1924 - May 7, 1998
💠 South African- born American Physicist
His contributions....
🔸Cormack had studied Electrical engineering, Physics and Crystallography in the University of Cape Town, South Africa in the mid of 1940. Then he completed his Doctoral degree at the Cambridge University.
🔸In the year 1956, he got appointed as a Professor of Physics at Tufty University in United States.
🔸Actually, his primary research was with the fundamentals of particle physics. But simultaneously he showed a great interest in scientific research on X-Ray technology. Which led him to develop a solid foundation of CT scan.
🔸Further, he published the base of CT scanning the " Line Integral Function" in Journal of Applied Physics in the year 1963 and 1964.
🔸Subsequently, he got an idea that to take numerous X-rays at different angles of brain and body and compiled the images in computer to represent in 3D dimensions. But unfortunately he had no financial support to persue his project.
🔸At that time, the British Engineer Godfrey Hounsfield came forward and supported to turn Cormack's theoretical idea into practical device. Finally, the first prototype CT scanning was built successfully in 1971 in London.
🔸It was an epoch-making discovery in the medical radiology and an enormous breakthrough in the field of medicine.
🔸In the year 1979, Cormack and Hounsfield were jointly awarded with Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for the development of Computer-Assisted Tomography.
🔸In fact, both of them were not professionally trained in biology or medicine and not even worked together. But their work made them united in Nobel ceremony in Stockholm.
🔸 Imagining The Elephant 🐘
-A Biography of Allan Cormack Life & Work.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Modest Genius
A Physicist Who Laid Foundation for CT Scan
Prof. Dr. Allan McLeod Cormack 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-08 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Vital Brazil
April 28,1865 - May 8, 1950
💠 Brazilian Physician, Immunologist & Herpetologist
💠Pioneer in Anti-venomous Serotherapy
His contributions....
🔹Vital Brazil had completed his medical graduation in 1891 and began his career as a Sanitary Inspector in Public Health Sector at Sao Paulo city. During his service, he gained vast knowledge about epidemic diseases.
🔹At the time, the rural Brazil was badly suffering by poisonous snake bite. There were thousands of people dying every year. Being a good humanitarian, he was very concerned about the deaths, which stimulated him to rise for cure.
🔹In fact, he got inspired by Dr.Albert Calmette about his new development of monovalent serum for Indian cobra in 1892.
🔹Thereafter, he started his series of experimental investigations and developed monovalent serum against the venom of South American Bothrops and Crotalus Genera snakes🐍in 1901.
🔹Also, he was the first who produced polyvalent serum against venomous snakes for therapeutic use. Thereby it reduced the mortality from 25% to 2%.
🔹He further developed the first Anti- scorpion serum in 1908 and Anti-spider serum in 1925.
🔹Subsequently, he established the first exclusive institute called Butantan Institution in Sao Paulo for applied toxicology and the science of venomous reptiles.
🔹To confer a honour, the scientific names of four species of South American snakes has labelled in his name - Rhachidelus brazili, Drymoluber brazili, Bothrops brazili and Chironius brazili.
A Day to Commemorate.....
An Eminent Brazilian Scientist Raised For Cure
Dr.Vital Brazil 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-09 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Ferdinand Monoyer
May 9, 1836 - July 11, 1912
💠French Ophthalmologist
His contributions....
🔸Monoyer is well known for his groundbreaking research in the field of Ophthalmology. He was a prominent Ophthalmologist in France at his period.
🔸He studied Medicine at the University of Strasbourg. Then, he worked as a Director of Ophthal clinic at the University of Nancy. Later, he worked as a Professor of the Medical Physics at the University of Lyon.
🔸Moreover, Dr. Monoyer had created a Monoyer chart in 1872, which is used to measure the visual acuity featured with rows of letters in different sizes.
🔸He further inserted his name in to the chart such as reading upwards on both ends and spells out the name "Ferdinand Monoyer."
🔸Also, he was the first who introduced a new measurement for vision called Dioptre. Which helps to measure the optical power of lens.
🔸In fact, his unique invention of Dioptre is still being used on every day all over the world from last 148 years. His enormous work has saved the sights of millions and improved the living of countless.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Eminent Ophthalmologist👁👁 Dr.Ferdinand Monoyer 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-10 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
Dec 25, 1880 - May 10, 1936
💠🇮🇳 Indian National Political Leader & Surgeon 🇮🇳
His contributions....
🔹Ansari completed his medical graduation at Madras Medical College and did his MS in the University of Edinburg in 1905.
🔹After his studies, he worked at London Lock Hospital and he was the first Indian appointed as a Resident Medical Officer in Charing Cross Hospital, London.
🔹In early 20th century, medical journals were largely documenting about Xenotransplantation which had inspired him extensively. Hence, he visited to many countries and worked with famed surgeons who pioneered in transplanting the tissues and organs of animals to humans.
🔹In fact, he had performed hundreds of grafting operations. Based on his successful experiments, he published a book called "Regeneration of Man."
🔹Simultaneously, he was showing his involvement in Indian Independence Movement during his student life in Madras. He continued his contribution even after the stay in London.
🔹After returning to India, he joined in Indian National Congress and Muslim League. In congress, he served as a President in 1927 and as secretary for several years.
🔹He was a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi and strongly adherent to his core teaching of Ahimsha. Dr.Ansari also offered his house as a "Centre of Indian Freedom Movement" at Delhi.
🔹His mission continued to work hard for Hindu-Muslim unity. He was being a Symbol of Hindu-Muslim Unity.
🔹Moreover, he led the Indian Medical Mission to treat Turkish wounded soldiers during Balkan War in 1912 and led Khilafat delegation to England in 1920.
🔹Also, he was one of the Founder of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi and he had been a Chancellor from 1928 to 1936.
🔹In order to honour him for pioneering Indian surgeon, an exclusive ward was established in his name "Dr Ansari Ward" in Charing Cross Hospital, London.
🔹During the British government, Indian political leadership was mainly dominated by lawyers and journalist. But, Dr.Ansari was a great exception who had dexterously balanced his medical career and political duty.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Man With Optimism and Dedication
Dr.Mukthar Ahmed Ansari 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-11 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Robert Jarvik
May 11, 1946
💠American Physician & Biomedical Scientist
His contributions....
🔸Jarvick had played a major role in the invention of the first artificial heart. Actually, he got interested in medicine by observing the surgeries performed by his father Dr.Norman Jarvick.
🔸In fact, Jarvick started his research from his high school days. He had a patent for an "Automatic Stapler" for surgical procedures at his very young age, which normally freed the surgeons from having manually clamp and tie blood vessels during surgeries.
🔸He also had an avid interest in the arts, so he joined at Syracuse University in 1964 and properly studied mechanical drawing and architecture.
🔸Suddenly his father suffered by cardiac illness and had to have open heart surgery. Which was the situvation made him to think about the need of heart transplants. Then he became interested in medicine and decided to pursue a medical career.
🔸 During his medical studies at the University of Utah he had joined in Artificial Organ Program headed by his mentor Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, who had invented the first dialysis machine.
🔸There were several artificial heart devices arised in the mid 1970 but those were temporary implantable heart models.
🔸In 1982, Dr.Jarvik designed and developed the First Permanent Implantable Artificial heart in the name of "Jarvik 7".
🔸An American Cardiothoracic Surgeon Dr.William DeVries had performed the first total artifical heart transplant, Jarvik-7 to a retired Dentist Dr. Barney Clark. The surgery was successful as he lived for 112 days. But he died from multiple organ failure.
🔸Subsequently, the development of an improved artificial heart continued ....
🔸Further, he founded Jarvik Research Institute in 1987 and continued his invention. Additionally, he invented Jarvik 2000, a Left Ventricular Assisted Device and also his inventions made him to hold more than 30 patents related to cardiac devices.
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A Physician Whose Inventions Keep on Pumping
Dr.Robert Jarvik Celebrating his birthday today 💐🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-12 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Prof.Dr.Dorothy Hodgkin
May 12, 1910 - July 29, 1994
💠British Chemist & Scientist
Her contributions.....
🔹When Dorothy was 15 years old, she was reading a book called "The Concerning the Nature of Things" written by Sir William Henry Bragg, which had aroused her curiosity to study the properties of atom and molecules by using X-rays.
🔹She had done studies in the subject of Chemistry at Sommerville college and Oxford University. And then did her Doctorate in University of Cambridge.
🔹In fact, Dorothy was one of the Pioneer scientist and well known for her invention of developing X-ray Crystallography method. Which was the key to study and understand the Three Dimensional Structure of biochemical compounds.
🔹During the second world war, the penicillin was in a great demand. Which had forced her to find remedy. Hence she studied and discovered three dimensional structure of Penicillin in 1945.
🔹The knowledge of the penicillin structure ultimately opened the new avenues for developing semi-synthetic derivatives of penicillin which had initiated the creation of Antibiotic era.
🔹Afterthat, she had spent around 6 years from 1948 to 1954 exclusively to discover the molecular structure of Vitamin B12 to fight against the deadly Pernicious anemia.
🔹Eventually her passion was rewarded. She was the third women awarded with Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her extreme contribution in discovering the molecular structure of Vitamin B12.
🔹In 1934, she was given a crystalline Insulin to study its molecular structure where X-ray crystallography had not been developed. She successfully discovered its three dimensional structure in her laboratory after her consistent work of 35 years in 1969.
🔹Moreover, she was recognized for determining the structure of steroids, vitamin D and cholesterol.
🔹Unfortunately after some time, she was diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis and later, she was spending her days in wheelchair. However her passion on research work is immeasurable.
🔹Her words in her final stage... "I realise that for 90% of my life, I am dealing with failure and occasionally I have a success."
A Day to Commemorate...
A Scientist of Sparkling Career with Analytical Brilliance
Prof.Dr.Dorothy Hodgkin 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-13 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Sir Ronald Ross
May 13, 1857 - Sept 16, 1932
💠British Physician & Malariologist
His contributions....
🔸Malaria was an ancient disease believed that spreaded by vapours in those days. The term Malaria originates from two Medieval Italian words 'mal' and "aria' which means (“Bad air”).
🔸But the French Physician Dr. Alphonse Laveran discovered malarial parasites in 1880 in a blood smear taken from a patient who had died by malaria.
🔸History awaited the scientist to reveal the mystery of malarial transmission.
🔸Ross was born in Almora town, India to a father who was a British Military Officer.
🔸He studied Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital at London in 1875 and he entered in to Indian Medical Service in 1881.
🔸 He was a Polymath had showed his interest in poetry, literature, music and mathematics all over his life.
🔸He was appointed as a medical officer for military regiment and worked at various places in India.
🔸During his study leave from June 1888 to May 1889 he joined a Diploma in Public Health at Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London. His scientific interest was growing day by day while studying.
🔸 He consulted his mentor Sir Patrick Mansion, the Father of Tropical Medicine. Dr. Mansion had briefed him the real problems in malaria research and encouraged him to choose India to study.
🔸As per his mentor's advise he returned to India and started focussing on the malaria research. While dissecting the stomach tissues of an Anopheles mosquito, he found the malarial parasite.
🔸This was the landmark discovery had done at Secunderabad by 20th August 1897. Then he proved that the female Anopheles mosquito plays a main role in transmission of malaria parasites in humans.
🔸In 1898, he spent some days in Calcutta, where he had investigated the "Life cycle of the malarial parasites in birds." He confirmed that the mosquito as a Intermediate host in Avian malaria.
🔸Also, he revealed that the salivary gland is the storage system of malarial parasites and proved that the parasites released from salivary gland during bitting.
🔸In 1899, he resigned his Medical Service in India and joined as a faculty in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London. He continued his work on prevention of malaria all over the world.
🔸Eventually, his hard work was rewarded in 1902. He was awarded with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his enormous work on the transmission of malaria. He received many honours in addition to the Nobel Prize.
🔸Based on his successful investigations, he had published a book called The Prevention of Malaria in 1911.
🔸To confer an honour The Ross Institute & Hospital for Tropical Disease was opened in London as a memorial in 1916.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Physician Raised for Cure
Sir Ronald Ross 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-14 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Charles Mantoux
May 14, 1877-1947
💠French Physician
Role of Tuberculin
🔹After the discovery of tuberculosis bacillus, Dr.Robert Koch proposed that glycerine extract of tubercle bacilli called as Tuberculin could be used to cure and prevent TB in 1890. But his suggestion was failed as a therapy.
🔹Further, Dr.Von Pirquet, an Austrian pediatrician introduced first cutaneous tuberculin test named as Pirquet test in 1908.
🔹In this skin test, a drop of tuberculin is scratched into the surface of a small area of skin. The development of a red, raised area at the site of application called as Pirquet’s reaction, which indicates the presence of tuberculosis.
🔹Dr. Von Pirquet believed that this could be a perfect diagnostic test for tuberculosis.
🔹Then the role of Dr. Charles Mantoux started for upgrading Dr. Pirquet's ideas and developed Mantoux test.
His contributions....
🔹Mantoux got graduated in medicine at the University of Paris in 1904. He was a disciple of Dr. Paul Broca, who is well known for his research on Broca's area in Brain cortex.
🔹Unfortunately, Mantoux contracted tuberculosis when he was being a student. After "tasted the taste of phthisis disease" he was forced to research the tuberculosis in sanatorium.
🔹Dr. Mantoux was not convinced with the results of Pirquet test which causes scarification. Also, he had noticed the negative results with few patients suffered by tuberculosis.
🔹Hence, he started his experimental studies in Guinea pigs to evaluate the hypersensitivity reactions to tuberculin. His studies guided him to develop a modified diagnostic method for screening the tuberculosis.
🔹After his research, he presented his result about Intra-dermal Injection of tuberculin to the French Academy of Sciences which was published in 1910. As well as his case study was published in Journal of Medicine French comparing his Intra-dermal with Pirquet's cutaneous test.
🔹Finally, he concluded that his intra-dermal test is simple in its application and completely innocuous as compared to cutaneous one. And also he concluded his test had great accuracy and great sensitivity.
🔹This was the greatest starting point for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. He was credited for his marvelous discovery of Mantoux Test.
🔹Further he also implemented the radiological studies in tuberculosis patients and also published articles on pleuritis in tuberculosis.
🔹As well as, he pioneered the use of Artificial Pneumothorax and investigated its effect on patient suffered from TB cavities.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Extraordinary Scientist
Dr.Charles Mantoux 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-15 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr. Elie Metchnikoff
May 15,1845 - July 15, 1916
💠 Russian Biologist & Immunologist
💠 Father of Natural Immunity
His Contributions.....
🔸Metchnikoff had received his bachelor degree in Natural sciences from the University of Kharkov and completed his Doctoral degree at the University of St.Petersburg in 1868.
🔸After his studies, he joined as a faculty and later promoted as the Professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Odessa (now Odessa National Mechnikov University), Ukraine.
🔸Due to the political turmoil, he shifted to Italy and continued his series of experiments in a private clinic.
🔸While doing an experiment in starfish larvae, he described the role of specialised phagocytic cells, subsequently renamed as neutrophils and polymorphonuclear leucocytes in the host response to injury, inflammation and infection.
🔸By his experiment, he revealed that white blood cells are work by encapsulating and destroying harmful bacteria and other microorganisms in the host.
🔸He called those cells as Phagocytes and named the process as Phagocytosis in 1883.
🔸In order to extend his research, he went to Paris and met Louis Pasteur in 1888.
🔸Pasteur was highly acknowledged the Metchnikoff's work and appointed as the Head of laboratory at Pasteur Institute, where he serviced his next 28 years of life.
🔸Further, Metchnikoff had done his extensive research in the mechanism of innate immunity. He used more than 30 animal species to support his findings, and his laboratory published more than 200 scientific papers.
🔸Moreover, he published two volumes on the Comparative pathology of inflammation in 1892 and Immunity in infectious diseases, in 1901.
🔸His incomparable contributions in the field of medicine had made him considered as the Father of cell-mediated immunity.
🔸Ultimately, Dr.Metchnikoff was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908, jointly with Dr.Paul Ehrlich, who established the concept of humoral immunity. Both men are considered as the founders of immunology.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Creative Genius
Dr. Elie Metchnikoff 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr.M.Gowri Sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-16 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
MAY 1⃣6⃣
Prof. Dr. Jan Mikulicz Radecki
May 16, 1850 - June 4, 1905
💠Poland Surgeon
💠The Creator of Modern European Surgery
His contributions....
🔹Mikulicz had received his graduation in Medicine from Vienna University in 1875 with the guidance of his mentor Dr. Theodor Billroth. After completion of his studies he worked in his surgical clinic for years.
🔹In fact, he created an innovative methods in operative techniques for wide range of diseases and extended his support to develop Modern Surgery.
🔹He started his scientific research by describing Rhinoscleroma and labelling it's unique cell as Mikulicz's Cell.
🔹He was the first who sutured a perforated gastric ulcer in 1885.
🔹Further, he was the first who had treated the carcinoma oesophagus by doing resection and plastic reconstruction in 1886.
🔹Also, he obtained a new approach by lateral pharyngotomy for malignant tumor of tonsillar fossa in 1886.
🔹Subsequently, he introduced the Mikulicz-Block method, which was a two stage resection for malignant tumor of colon.
🔹He was devoted to urological surgery by performing uretero-intestinal anastomosis and done the first ileocytoplasty to a patient with extrophy of bladder.
🔹In 1881, he constructed Esophagoscope and Gastroscope with distal illumination (by using Edison's bulb), which was considered as a first successful and practicable scopy.
🔹Moreover, he was a pioneer surgeon who adopted Sir Joseph Lister's antiseptic method.
🔹As well as, he was one of the first surgeon who used sterile silk gloves and suggested to change the gloves two or three times during surgery.
🔹He also introduced the gauze mask to be weared during surgery and stressed the importance of avoiding unnecessary conversation at the operating table to prevent the contamination of operative field.
🔹 His Eponyms....
🔅Heineke-Mikulicz Pyloroplasty Reconstruction of pylorus canal
🔅Heineke- Mikulicz Stricturoplasty
To relieve fibrotic stricture of small bowel
🔅Mikulicz's cell
Vesicular cells in Rhinoscleroma
🔅Mikulicz disease
Benign lymphocytic infiltration and enlargement of lacrimal and salivary glands
🔅Mikulicz's pad (Mick pad)
🔅Mikulicz's mask
🔅Mikulicz's enterotome
🔹He believed that the surgical efficacy is based on the right diagnosis and by adapting his rules "First, do not harm," "The well-being of the patient is the most important."
🔹Unfortunately, he succumbed to gastric cancer at the age of 55 years . Before his death he wrote: "I am dying without any regrets and with sense of satisfaction with my life. I worked according to my strength and I found happiness and recognition in the world".
🔹To honour his efficient work, the German Surgical Society is giving the award named "Von Mikulicz-Kelly-Preis Award" for the best paper in the field of Endoscopy and Laparoscopy every year.
A Day to Commemorate...
A King in the Kingdom of Surgeons
Prof. Dr. Jan Mikulicz 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
MAY 1⃣6⃣
Prof. Dr. Jan Mikulicz Radecki
May 16, 1850 - June 4, 1905
💠Poland Surgeon
💠The Creator of Modern European Surgery
His contributions....
🔹Mikulicz had received his graduation in Medicine from Vienna University in 1875 with the guidance of his mentor Dr. Theodor Billroth. After completion of his studies he worked in his surgical clinic for years.
🔹In fact, he created an innovative methods in operative techniques for wide range of diseases and extended his support to develop Modern Surgery.
🔹He started his scientific research by describing Rhinoscleroma and labelling it's unique cell as Mikulicz's Cell.
🔹He was the first who sutured a perforated gastric ulcer in 1885.
🔹Further, he was the first who had treated the carcinoma oesophagus by doing resection and plastic reconstruction in 1886.
🔹Also, he obtained a new approach by lateral pharyngotomy for malignant tumor of tonsillar fossa in 1886.
🔹Subsequently, he introduced the Mikulicz-Block method, which was a two stage resection for malignant tumor of colon.
🔹He was devoted to urological surgery by performing uretero-intestinal anastomosis and done the first ileocytoplasty to a patient with extrophy of bladder.
🔹In 1881, he constructed Esophagoscope and Gastroscope with distal illumination (by using Edison's bulb), which was considered as a first successful and practicable scopy.
🔹Moreover, he was a pioneer surgeon who adopted Sir Joseph Lister's antiseptic method.
🔹As well as, he was one of the first surgeon who used sterile silk gloves and suggested to change the gloves two or three times during surgery.
🔹He also introduced the gauze mask to be weared during surgery and stressed the importance of avoiding unnecessary conversation at the operating table to prevent the contamination of operative field.
🔹 His Eponyms....
🔅Heineke-Mikulicz Pyloroplasty Reconstruction of pylorus canal
🔅Heineke- Mikulicz Stricturoplasty
To relieve fibrotic stricture of small bowel
🔅Mikulicz's cell
Vesicular cells in Rhinoscleroma
🔅Mikulicz disease
Benign lymphocytic infiltration and enlargement of lacrimal and salivary glands
🔅Mikulicz's pad (Mick pad)
🔅Mikulicz's mask
🔅Mikulicz's enterotome
🔹He believed that the surgical efficacy is based on the right diagnosis and by adapting his rules "First, do not harm," "The well-being of the patient is the most important."
🔹Unfortunately, he succumbed to gastric cancer at the age of 55 years . Before his death he wrote: "I am dying without any regrets and with sense of satisfaction with my life. I worked according to my strength and I found happiness and recognition in the world".
🔹To honour his efficient work, the German Surgical Society is giving the award named "Von Mikulicz-Kelly-Preis Award" for the best paper in the field of Endoscopy and Laparoscopy every year.
A Day to Commemorate...
A King in the Kingdom of Surgeons
Prof. Dr. Jan Mikulicz 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-17 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
Dr.Edward Jenner
May 17, 1749 - Jan 26,1823
💠British Physician
💠Pioneer of vaccination
His contributions....
🔸Jenner was basically interested in science and nature even from school days. At the age of 14 years, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon.
🔸In the year 1770, he apprenticed to Anatomy and Surgery by the guidance of his mentor Dr.John Hunter, who is a most distinguished surgeon at his period.
🔸Dr. Hunter used to tell him the statement of Dr. William Harvey's "Don't think, try."
🔸Later Jenner had done his MD at the University of St Andrews, Scotland in 1792.
🔸During his period, smallpox was a most frightening disease which had shown high mortality and the ultimate result was scarred faces, deaf and blind.
🔸However, Jenner had noticed that the local milkmaid was not affected with smallpox at that period. Subsequently, he heard from one young girl saying that "She would never have a smallpox because she had cowpox sometime before". Which made him think about vaccine.
🔸Then he began his research on May 14, 1796. Firstly, he innoculated to 8 years boy called James Phipps (son of Jenner's gardener) with lymph taken from the cow pox blisters.
🔸After innoculation, Phipps had fever but not much illness. Few days later, he had been inoculated with fresh small pox lesion and found that no such disease occurred. Finally, Jenner concluded that cowpox was a safer form of prevention and provided immunity against smallpox.
🔸Further, Jenner tested his investigation on a series of 23 subjects. But his experiments and observations were initially rejected by the Royal Society, London.
🔸Moreover, he had published "An Inquiry in to the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae" in 1798. Where he coined the term Vaccination (from the Latin word ‘vacca’ for cow).
🔸Eventually, his vaccination was accepted by the British government. Thus, Dr.Jenner saved people by his vaccination method from dreadful disease, which became a turning point of his life.
🔸He had to give up his lifestyle and became a missionary of vaccination.
🔸In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was heading the war against British had involved his soldiers to get vaccinated against smallpox and based on the request of Dr. Jenner, he released English Prisoners of War.
🔸Hence, Napoleon remarked that "He could not refuse anything to one of the greatest benefactors of mankind."
A Day to Commemorate....
A Physician Who Paved the Way for Eradication of Speckled Monster
Dr. Edward Jenner 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
May 17, 1749 - Jan 26,1823
💠British Physician
💠Pioneer of vaccination
His contributions....
🔸Jenner was basically interested in science and nature even from school days. At the age of 14 years, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon.
🔸In the year 1770, he apprenticed to Anatomy and Surgery by the guidance of his mentor Dr.John Hunter, who is a most distinguished surgeon at his period.
🔸Dr. Hunter used to tell him the statement of Dr. William Harvey's "Don't think, try."
🔸Later Jenner had done his MD at the University of St Andrews, Scotland in 1792.
🔸During his period, smallpox was a most frightening disease which had shown high mortality and the ultimate result was scarred faces, deaf and blind.
🔸However, Jenner had noticed that the local milkmaid was not affected with smallpox at that period. Subsequently, he heard from one young girl saying that "She would never have a smallpox because she had cowpox sometime before". Which made him think about vaccine.
🔸Then he began his research on May 14, 1796. Firstly, he innoculated to 8 years boy called James Phipps (son of Jenner's gardener) with lymph taken from the cow pox blisters.
🔸After innoculation, Phipps had fever but not much illness. Few days later, he had been inoculated with fresh small pox lesion and found that no such disease occurred. Finally, Jenner concluded that cowpox was a safer form of prevention and provided immunity against smallpox.
🔸Further, Jenner tested his investigation on a series of 23 subjects. But his experiments and observations were initially rejected by the Royal Society, London.
🔸Moreover, he had published "An Inquiry in to the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae" in 1798. Where he coined the term Vaccination (from the Latin word ‘vacca’ for cow).
🔸Eventually, his vaccination was accepted by the British government. Thus, Dr.Jenner saved people by his vaccination method from dreadful disease, which became a turning point of his life.
🔸He had to give up his lifestyle and became a missionary of vaccination.
🔸In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was heading the war against British had involved his soldiers to get vaccinated against smallpox and based on the request of Dr. Jenner, he released English Prisoners of War.
🔸Hence, Napoleon remarked that "He could not refuse anything to one of the greatest benefactors of mankind."
A Day to Commemorate....
A Physician Who Paved the Way for Eradication of Speckled Monster
Dr. Edward Jenner 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-18 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
💠American Pediatric Cardiologist
💠Founder of Pediatric Cardiology
Her contributions.....
🔹Taussig was born in Cambridge. Her father was a well known Economist and Professor of Harvard University. Unfortunately, she lost her mother at her age of 11 years due to tuberculosis.
🔹During her childhood, she was facing many health issues as contracted TB, where she suffered for a long period and had middle ear infection which had rendered her half deaf. Apart from this, she suffered from severe dyslexia.
🔹However, her father and grandfather, who was a teacher in blind school were encouraged her to become a doctor.
🔹Hence she studied part of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and in Boston University. But due to gender discrimination, she was not allowed to earn her graduation.
🔹So she got transferred to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she pursued her interest in Cardiac Research.
🔹At the age of 32 years, her deafness became worst so she relied on lip reading techniques and hearing aids to interact with patients.
🔹She eventually "Learned to Listen" the heart sounds and murmurs with her hands by gently placing her fingers on a heart.
🔹But she never allowed these obstacles to stop her move foward. She had established the "One of the First Pediatric Cardiology Clinic" at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
🔹She also pioneered in using X-rays and Fluroscopy to identify the Congenital Heart Defects in newborn.
🔹By Joining with an American surgeon Dr.Alfred Blalock and a surgical technician Dr.Vivian Thomas, she developed a surgical procedure called Blalock - Thomas - Taussig shunt to correct Blue baby syndrome (Tetralogy of Fallot) in 1944.
🔹During 1950, there was a sudden severe epidemic across Europe among new born children having limb defects Phacomelia. Dr.Taussig was voluntarily went to Germany to help the research to find underlying cause.
🔹Subsequently, she helped in establishing the teratogenic effects of Thalidomide, a drug which is used to treat motion sickness in pregnancy. As a result of her effort, thalidomide was banned.
🔹Moreover, she published a book by summarizing her years of clinical experience and released in the name of "Congenital Malformation of the Heart" in 1947, which is considered as the foundational text book of pediatric cardiology.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Mother of Pediatric Cardiology
Prof. Dr.Helen B. Taussig 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 2⃣
Dr. Irwin Allan Rose
July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015
💠American Biologist
His Contributions.....
🔹Irwin Rose was born in Brooklyn, New York. During his young days, he spent his summer holidays by helping out in the ward at a local hospital.
🔹During Second World War, he also served in the U.S Navy. After the war, he received his Bachelor of Science and completed his Ph.D in Biochemistry in 1952 from the University of Chicago.
🔹Then he served as a faculty at Yale School of Medicine and then joined at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia in 1963 and served there until his retirement in 1995.
🔹While working in the Cancer center, Dr. Rose along with two Israel scientists Dr. Aaron Ciechanover and Dr. Avram Hershko made an epoch making discovery of Ubiquitin regulatory protein.
🔹It is named Ubiquitin from the Latin word Ubique meaning “Everywhere,” because it seen in the cells of all humans, animals and plants.
🔹Further they demonstrated that ubiquitin mediated protein degradation, which helps to control the critical biochemical processes, such as cell division, the repair of defects in DNA and gene transcription.
🔹For the ground-breaking discovery of Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, all the three scientist were honoured with Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 2004.
🔹Ultimately, their discoveries leading into the development of drugs to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis and cervical cancer.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Energetic & Enthusiastic Researcher
Dr. Irwin Allan Rose🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr.M.Gowri Sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
💠Founder of Pediatric Cardiology
Her contributions.....
🔹Taussig was born in Cambridge. Her father was a well known Economist and Professor of Harvard University. Unfortunately, she lost her mother at her age of 11 years due to tuberculosis.
🔹During her childhood, she was facing many health issues as contracted TB, where she suffered for a long period and had middle ear infection which had rendered her half deaf. Apart from this, she suffered from severe dyslexia.
🔹However, her father and grandfather, who was a teacher in blind school were encouraged her to become a doctor.
🔹Hence she studied part of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and in Boston University. But due to gender discrimination, she was not allowed to earn her graduation.
🔹So she got transferred to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she pursued her interest in Cardiac Research.
🔹At the age of 32 years, her deafness became worst so she relied on lip reading techniques and hearing aids to interact with patients.
🔹She eventually "Learned to Listen" the heart sounds and murmurs with her hands by gently placing her fingers on a heart.
🔹But she never allowed these obstacles to stop her move foward. She had established the "One of the First Pediatric Cardiology Clinic" at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
🔹She also pioneered in using X-rays and Fluroscopy to identify the Congenital Heart Defects in newborn.
🔹By Joining with an American surgeon Dr.Alfred Blalock and a surgical technician Dr.Vivian Thomas, she developed a surgical procedure called Blalock - Thomas - Taussig shunt to correct Blue baby syndrome (Tetralogy of Fallot) in 1944.
🔹During 1950, there was a sudden severe epidemic across Europe among new born children having limb defects Phacomelia. Dr.Taussig was voluntarily went to Germany to help the research to find underlying cause.
🔹Subsequently, she helped in establishing the teratogenic effects of Thalidomide, a drug which is used to treat motion sickness in pregnancy. As a result of her effort, thalidomide was banned.
🔹Moreover, she published a book by summarizing her years of clinical experience and released in the name of "Congenital Malformation of the Heart" in 1947, which is considered as the foundational text book of pediatric cardiology.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Mother of Pediatric Cardiology
Prof. Dr.Helen B. Taussig 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-19 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
JUNE 2⃣
Dr. Irwin Allan Rose
July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015
💠American Biologist
His Contributions.....
🔹Irwin Rose was born in Brooklyn, New York. During his young days, he spent his summer holidays by helping out in the ward at a local hospital.
🔹During Second World War, he also served in the U.S Navy. After the war, he received his Bachelor of Science and completed his Ph.D in Biochemistry in 1952 from the University of Chicago.
🔹Then he served as a faculty at Yale School of Medicine and then joined at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia in 1963 and served there until his retirement in 1995.
🔹While working in the Cancer center, Dr. Rose along with two Israel scientists Dr. Aaron Ciechanover and Dr. Avram Hershko made an epoch making discovery of Ubiquitin regulatory protein.
🔹It is named Ubiquitin from the Latin word Ubique meaning “Everywhere,” because it seen in the cells of all humans, animals and plants.
🔹Further they demonstrated that ubiquitin mediated protein degradation, which helps to control the critical biochemical processes, such as cell division, the repair of defects in DNA and gene transcription.
🔹For the ground-breaking discovery of Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, all the three scientist were honoured with Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 2004.
🔹Ultimately, their discoveries leading into the development of drugs to combat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis and cervical cancer.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Energetic & Enthusiastic Researcher
Dr. Irwin Allan Rose🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr.M.Gowri Sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-20 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 3⃣
Dr. Lawrence Joseph Henderson
June 3, 1878 - Feb 10, 1942
💠American Biochemist
His contributions....
🔸Henderson on his early days found mathematics was much easier than other subjects. But subsequently his interest moved to physics. Hence, he did his studies in Physical chemistry at Harvard college in 1898.
🔸Further, his interest led him to focus on Biological chemistry so he studied medicine in Harvard Medical School and received his Graduation in 1902.
🔸After his studies, he spent his 2 years in research of Biological chemistry at the University of strasbourg.
🔸Later, he joined as a lecturer in Harvard Medical School and then became a Professor of Biochemistry. His entire professional life was invested in Harvard University.
🔸 Moreover, he spent around 15 years (1906-1920) exclusively for investigating Acid-Base balance.
🔸He investigated that acid-base balance was regulated by buffer systems of the blood in complex co-ordination with the lung, the red blood cells and the kidneys.
🔸Ultimately, he derived Henderson equation in 1908 and also described the carbonic acid as a buffer solution.
🔸Later, Dr. Karl Hasselbalch, a Danish Biochemist had converted this equation into logarithmic forms called Henderson - Hasselbalch equation, which is used to calculate pH.
🔸In addition, Dr. Henderson constructed and introduced First Medical Nomogram in 1928. Which is used to correlate many different aspects of blood physiology.
🔸Apart from all the above, he was a man of philosophical, had published two books called....
🔅 The Fitness of the Environment
🔅 The Order of Nature
🔸In his book, he had discussed about the planet's natural environment and concluded that it's perfectly suited for the development of life.
🔸One of his philosophical quote "When societies are too unstable, individuals suffer."
A Day to Commemorate....
The Physician with Highly Creative Imagination
Dr. Lawrence Joseph Henderson 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 3⃣
Dr. Lawrence Joseph Henderson
June 3, 1878 - Feb 10, 1942
💠American Biochemist
His contributions....
🔸Henderson on his early days found mathematics was much easier than other subjects. But subsequently his interest moved to physics. Hence, he did his studies in Physical chemistry at Harvard college in 1898.
🔸Further, his interest led him to focus on Biological chemistry so he studied medicine in Harvard Medical School and received his Graduation in 1902.
🔸After his studies, he spent his 2 years in research of Biological chemistry at the University of strasbourg.
🔸Later, he joined as a lecturer in Harvard Medical School and then became a Professor of Biochemistry. His entire professional life was invested in Harvard University.
🔸 Moreover, he spent around 15 years (1906-1920) exclusively for investigating Acid-Base balance.
🔸He investigated that acid-base balance was regulated by buffer systems of the blood in complex co-ordination with the lung, the red blood cells and the kidneys.
🔸Ultimately, he derived Henderson equation in 1908 and also described the carbonic acid as a buffer solution.
🔸Later, Dr. Karl Hasselbalch, a Danish Biochemist had converted this equation into logarithmic forms called Henderson - Hasselbalch equation, which is used to calculate pH.
🔸In addition, Dr. Henderson constructed and introduced First Medical Nomogram in 1928. Which is used to correlate many different aspects of blood physiology.
🔸Apart from all the above, he was a man of philosophical, had published two books called....
🔅 The Fitness of the Environment
🔅 The Order of Nature
🔸In his book, he had discussed about the planet's natural environment and concluded that it's perfectly suited for the development of life.
🔸One of his philosophical quote "When societies are too unstable, individuals suffer."
A Day to Commemorate....
The Physician with Highly Creative Imagination
Dr. Lawrence Joseph Henderson 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-21 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 4⃣
Prof. Robert F. Furchgott
June 4, 1916 - May 19, 2009
💠American Biochemist
His contributions....
🔹Furchgott had his studies in chemistry from the University of North Carolina in 1937 and did Ph.D in biochemistry from the Northwestern University in 1940.
🔹After his studies, he worked as a medical faculty in various institutions. In 1956, he got appointed as a Professor of Pharmacology in SUNY- Downstate Medical College and held the position until 2009.
🔹He did extensive research involved in the mechanism of drug interaction with the receptors in blood vessels.
🔹In 1978, he successfully discovered a substance in a endothelial cells of rabbit arteries, which relaxes the blood vessels. He named the substance as Endothelium Derived Relaxing Factor (EDRF).
🔹As per quote "Scientist build on each other work." One year before Dr. Furchgott's discovery, Dr. Ferid Murad, an American Physician had demonstrated that nitroglycerin and related drugs acting as a releasing nitric oxide which results in relaxing the smooth muscles by increasing cyclic GMP.
🔹The missing step in the signaling process was filled up by an American Pharmacologist Dr. Louis Ignorra, He had demonstrated EDRF as nitric oxide.
🔹Dr. Furchgott along with Dr. Ignorra were being the first who announced about the finding of nitric oxide at a scientific conference in 1986. Which triggered an International boom in the research on nitric oxide.
🔹In 1998, Dr. Furchgott along with Dr. Ignorra and Dr. Murad shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide act as a signalling molecule in cardiovascular system.
🔹Further Dr. Furchgott discovered a phenomenon known as Photo-relaxation, in which muscles get relax while exposed to ultraviolet light.
🔹His work on nitric oxide uncovered a new mechanism for how blood vessels in the body get dilated.
🔹Ultimately, paved the way for the development of the drug sidenafil citrate- Viagra, which is now widely used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Brilliant Scientist and a Prince of Science
Prof. Robert F. Furchgott 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 4⃣
Prof. Robert F. Furchgott
June 4, 1916 - May 19, 2009
💠American Biochemist
His contributions....
🔹Furchgott had his studies in chemistry from the University of North Carolina in 1937 and did Ph.D in biochemistry from the Northwestern University in 1940.
🔹After his studies, he worked as a medical faculty in various institutions. In 1956, he got appointed as a Professor of Pharmacology in SUNY- Downstate Medical College and held the position until 2009.
🔹He did extensive research involved in the mechanism of drug interaction with the receptors in blood vessels.
🔹In 1978, he successfully discovered a substance in a endothelial cells of rabbit arteries, which relaxes the blood vessels. He named the substance as Endothelium Derived Relaxing Factor (EDRF).
🔹As per quote "Scientist build on each other work." One year before Dr. Furchgott's discovery, Dr. Ferid Murad, an American Physician had demonstrated that nitroglycerin and related drugs acting as a releasing nitric oxide which results in relaxing the smooth muscles by increasing cyclic GMP.
🔹The missing step in the signaling process was filled up by an American Pharmacologist Dr. Louis Ignorra, He had demonstrated EDRF as nitric oxide.
🔹Dr. Furchgott along with Dr. Ignorra were being the first who announced about the finding of nitric oxide at a scientific conference in 1986. Which triggered an International boom in the research on nitric oxide.
🔹In 1998, Dr. Furchgott along with Dr. Ignorra and Dr. Murad shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide act as a signalling molecule in cardiovascular system.
🔹Further Dr. Furchgott discovered a phenomenon known as Photo-relaxation, in which muscles get relax while exposed to ultraviolet light.
🔹His work on nitric oxide uncovered a new mechanism for how blood vessels in the body get dilated.
🔹Ultimately, paved the way for the development of the drug sidenafil citrate- Viagra, which is now widely used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Brilliant Scientist and a Prince of Science
Prof. Robert F. Furchgott 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-22 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 5⃣
Dr.Thomas C. Peebles
June 5, 1921 - July 8, 2010
💠American Paediatrician
His contributions....
🔸On his young days, Peebles served in the U.S. Navy as a bomber pilot during Second World War.
🔸After the war, he joined at Harvard Medical School and completed his medical graduation in 1951. Later, he did the fellowship in Children's Hospital, Boston.
🔸Then he worked with Dr. John F. Enders, who is considered as a Father of Modern Vaccine, also he earned a Nobel Prize for utilizing tissue culture method for the development of polio vaccine.
🔸During an outbreak of measles disease in Boston, Dr. Enders insisted Dr. Peebles to focus on the cause of measels.
🔸Hence Dr. Peebles started collecting blood samples from severely ill school students by telling them that Young man you are standing on the frontiers of science.
🔸Subsequently, he successfully cultured and isolated the measles virus in Human kidney cell culture by using the blood sample of 13 year boy called David Edmonston.
🔸Based on the virus material collected by Dr. Peebles, Dr. Enders had developed the Measels Vaccine in 1963 and named as Edmonston - Enders strain. This virus strain was eventually used to create measles vaccine.
🔸The measles component of MMR vaccine is being used today and getting grown by using Edmonston-Enders strain.
🔸Thus the creation of vaccine has prevented numerous deaths worldwide.
🔸Dr. Peebles also continued his research related to Tetanus vaccine and discovered that booster shots should be limited to once in every 10 years but not annually.
🔸Thereby, he significantly reduced the incidence of allergic reactions caused by the higher dosages in common use of tetanus vaccine.
🔸Moreover, he found that urban school students had dental caries due to low fluoride. Then he invented a fluoride additive with vitamins to protect their teeths.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Paediatrician Who Freed the World from Deadly Scourge
Dr. Thomas C. Peebles 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 5⃣
Dr.Thomas C. Peebles
June 5, 1921 - July 8, 2010
💠American Paediatrician
His contributions....
🔸On his young days, Peebles served in the U.S. Navy as a bomber pilot during Second World War.
🔸After the war, he joined at Harvard Medical School and completed his medical graduation in 1951. Later, he did the fellowship in Children's Hospital, Boston.
🔸Then he worked with Dr. John F. Enders, who is considered as a Father of Modern Vaccine, also he earned a Nobel Prize for utilizing tissue culture method for the development of polio vaccine.
🔸During an outbreak of measles disease in Boston, Dr. Enders insisted Dr. Peebles to focus on the cause of measels.
🔸Hence Dr. Peebles started collecting blood samples from severely ill school students by telling them that Young man you are standing on the frontiers of science.
🔸Subsequently, he successfully cultured and isolated the measles virus in Human kidney cell culture by using the blood sample of 13 year boy called David Edmonston.
🔸Based on the virus material collected by Dr. Peebles, Dr. Enders had developed the Measels Vaccine in 1963 and named as Edmonston - Enders strain. This virus strain was eventually used to create measles vaccine.
🔸The measles component of MMR vaccine is being used today and getting grown by using Edmonston-Enders strain.
🔸Thus the creation of vaccine has prevented numerous deaths worldwide.
🔸Dr. Peebles also continued his research related to Tetanus vaccine and discovered that booster shots should be limited to once in every 10 years but not annually.
🔸Thereby, he significantly reduced the incidence of allergic reactions caused by the higher dosages in common use of tetanus vaccine.
🔸Moreover, he found that urban school students had dental caries due to low fluoride. Then he invented a fluoride additive with vitamins to protect their teeths.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Paediatrician Who Freed the World from Deadly Scourge
Dr. Thomas C. Peebles 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-23 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 6⃣
Dr. Jean Dausset
Oct 18, 1916 - June 6, 2009
💠French Immunologist
His contributions....
🔹Dausset had joined to study medicine at the University of Paris. His father was a physician and he took part in First World War. Dausset was quite impressed about his father so he wanted to follow his footsteps.
🔹Unfortunately his study was interrupted due to Second World War. Hence he was sent to serve in French Army. Where he was posted in North Italy and served there for an year.
🔹Initially he was assigned for a Ambulance Service. Thereby he performed with many blood transfusion of wounded soldiers. Ultimately, he studied the transfusion related reactions.
🔹After the Second World War, he completed his MD and then appointed as a Director of Laboratory at National Blood Transfusion Centre. Where he worked for next 23 years.
🔹During his research, he was the first who demonstrated about Leuco-agglutination and Thrombo-agglutination in 1952.
🔹Subsequently, an American Geneticist Dr.George Snell, had involved and discovered Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) in mice 🐁.
🔹Dr. Dausset discovery in1958 became an essential contribution in identifying the MHC in Humans. He was the first who revealed about Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) and named as HLA-A2.
🔹By using of MHC / HLA, Dr. Dausset invented to find the matching possibility of organ donors and the recipients. Thereby the incidence of transplant related rejections reduced drastically.
🔹Finally, Dr. Dausset was honored and shared the Nobel Prize of Medicine with Dr.George Snell and Dr.Baruj for their contributions to Immunology.
🔹Also, Dr. Dausset granted his Nobel Prize money to begin the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms (CEPH), later it was renamed as Foundation Jean Dausset -CEPH, a Human Genome Center in 1984.
🔹His contribution in Immunology reached far beyond transplantation. Now a days, our Scientist building up the relationship of HLA with autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases and to various cancers.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Physician Who Transformed the Understanding of Human Immune System
Dr. Jean Dausset 🙏🏼
...........................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 6⃣
Dr. Jean Dausset
Oct 18, 1916 - June 6, 2009
💠French Immunologist
His contributions....
🔹Dausset had joined to study medicine at the University of Paris. His father was a physician and he took part in First World War. Dausset was quite impressed about his father so he wanted to follow his footsteps.
🔹Unfortunately his study was interrupted due to Second World War. Hence he was sent to serve in French Army. Where he was posted in North Italy and served there for an year.
🔹Initially he was assigned for a Ambulance Service. Thereby he performed with many blood transfusion of wounded soldiers. Ultimately, he studied the transfusion related reactions.
🔹After the Second World War, he completed his MD and then appointed as a Director of Laboratory at National Blood Transfusion Centre. Where he worked for next 23 years.
🔹During his research, he was the first who demonstrated about Leuco-agglutination and Thrombo-agglutination in 1952.
🔹Subsequently, an American Geneticist Dr.George Snell, had involved and discovered Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) in mice 🐁.
🔹Dr. Dausset discovery in1958 became an essential contribution in identifying the MHC in Humans. He was the first who revealed about Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) and named as HLA-A2.
🔹By using of MHC / HLA, Dr. Dausset invented to find the matching possibility of organ donors and the recipients. Thereby the incidence of transplant related rejections reduced drastically.
🔹Finally, Dr. Dausset was honored and shared the Nobel Prize of Medicine with Dr.George Snell and Dr.Baruj for their contributions to Immunology.
🔹Also, Dr. Dausset granted his Nobel Prize money to begin the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms (CEPH), later it was renamed as Foundation Jean Dausset -CEPH, a Human Genome Center in 1984.
🔹His contribution in Immunology reached far beyond transplantation. Now a days, our Scientist building up the relationship of HLA with autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases and to various cancers.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Physician Who Transformed the Understanding of Human Immune System
Dr. Jean Dausset 🙏🏼
...........................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-24 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 7⃣
Dr. Virginia Apgar
June 7, 1909 - Aug 7, 1974
💠American Obstetrical anesthesiologist
💠Inventor of APGAR Score
Her contributions....
🔸Apgar was brought up from a musical🎼 family. She learned to play violin during her childhood and continued to play till her last days.
🔸Her medicine interest might have raised from her father as he was a amateur inventor of homemade telescopes and radios.
🔸Unfortunately, she had seen her elder brother died due to tuberculosis and her another brother was struggling with chronic illness. This painful experience would also have stimulated her to get into medicine.
🔸She completed her medical studies and received her Graduation from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933.
🔸Her mentor Dr. Allen Whipple encouraged her to practice anesthesiology by seeing her energy level and ability.
🔸In a short time, she got trained in anesthesiology in 1937 and got appointed as a Director in newly established Division of Anesthesia in Columbia University.
🔸She was the first woman who became a Professor at the Columbia University in 1949 and continued her service until 1959.
🔸During her service period, she initiated her clinical research. In 1950, she had introduced APGAR Score. Which was the first standard method to assess the viability of newborn babies.
🔸The methodology was simple and prompt so it was quickly adopted by all Obstetricians. Thereby the Infant mortality rate was greatly reduced and then the Foundation of Neonatology was placed.
🔸Her last name APGAR was used as a mnemonic in APGAR Score
A - Appearance
P - Pulse rate
G - Grimace
A - Activity
R - Respiration
🔸Moreover, she was serving as a Vice President in "March of Dimes" which is an organization focussed on prevention of polio, premature death and birth defect. She held the position from 1959 to 1974 until her death.
🔸Additionally, she had promoted the Universal Vaccination during Rubella epidemics in 1964 and then effectively promoted the use of Rh testing for mothers.
🔸Apart from all the above, she had a great love of music. She was even made a own violin 🎻 and used to carry wherever she goes and play with local musicians.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Innovative Physician Who Devoted Her Life to Save the Newborn
Dr. Virginia Apgar🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 7⃣
Dr. Virginia Apgar
June 7, 1909 - Aug 7, 1974
💠American Obstetrical anesthesiologist
💠Inventor of APGAR Score
Her contributions....
🔸Apgar was brought up from a musical🎼 family. She learned to play violin during her childhood and continued to play till her last days.
🔸Her medicine interest might have raised from her father as he was a amateur inventor of homemade telescopes and radios.
🔸Unfortunately, she had seen her elder brother died due to tuberculosis and her another brother was struggling with chronic illness. This painful experience would also have stimulated her to get into medicine.
🔸She completed her medical studies and received her Graduation from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933.
🔸Her mentor Dr. Allen Whipple encouraged her to practice anesthesiology by seeing her energy level and ability.
🔸In a short time, she got trained in anesthesiology in 1937 and got appointed as a Director in newly established Division of Anesthesia in Columbia University.
🔸She was the first woman who became a Professor at the Columbia University in 1949 and continued her service until 1959.
🔸During her service period, she initiated her clinical research. In 1950, she had introduced APGAR Score. Which was the first standard method to assess the viability of newborn babies.
🔸The methodology was simple and prompt so it was quickly adopted by all Obstetricians. Thereby the Infant mortality rate was greatly reduced and then the Foundation of Neonatology was placed.
🔸Her last name APGAR was used as a mnemonic in APGAR Score
A - Appearance
P - Pulse rate
G - Grimace
A - Activity
R - Respiration
🔸Moreover, she was serving as a Vice President in "March of Dimes" which is an organization focussed on prevention of polio, premature death and birth defect. She held the position from 1959 to 1974 until her death.
🔸Additionally, she had promoted the Universal Vaccination during Rubella epidemics in 1964 and then effectively promoted the use of Rh testing for mothers.
🔸Apart from all the above, she had a great love of music. She was even made a own violin 🎻 and used to carry wherever she goes and play with local musicians.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Innovative Physician Who Devoted Her Life to Save the Newborn
Dr. Virginia Apgar🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-25 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 8⃣
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad
June 8, 1822 - May 31, 1874
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician🇮🇳
His contributions.....
🔹Bhau Daji was born in a small village of Goa, India. His family was poor but he was genius in his early childhood and a brilliant chess player, which attracted the attention of Governer of Bombay.
🔹After completion of schooling, he moved to Mumbai and joined in a famous Elphinstone college in the year 1840.
🔹In 1844, he won the first prize in essay competition on writing about Female Infanticide which was conducted by British Government.
🔹 The Grant Medical College was established in Bombay in 1845. He applied for joining where he was the topper in the merit list. Hence he joined and successfully completed his medical education in 1851.
🔹He was also interested in Sanskrit language and Indian System of Medicine. Which had pushed him to collect more manuscript of medical subjects written in Sanskrit, Arabic and Pali.
🔹While reading the manuscripts he got the historical interest in treating leprosy. He further developed a garden and nurtured many native medical herbs.
🔹He started treating the leprosy patients. After recovery of few patients, he became popular all over the country with great hope.
🔹He used his own preparation of Chaulmoogra oil for leprosy. Which was attracted the attention of modern medical world. This oil was the only source till the next discovery of Dapsone in 1941.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Bhau Daji was an Eminent Surgeon had done many modern surgeries such as lithotripsy, cataract and also in midwifery.
🔹In addition, he had an amazing collection of Ancient Indian Coins and inscriptions of ancient Sanskrit authors.
🔹His sudden demise was left his mission on leprosy incomplete.
🔹The Journal Nature expressed his sad demise as......
"This very remarkable native of India, the true friend of his fellow countrymen as well as of science and learning died on May 31, 1874".
🔹To honour his enormous service The Victoria and Albert Museum was renamed as Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum in 1975, where he was instrumental in raising funds to start this museum in 1872.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Indian Physician
🇮🇳 Dr.Bhau Daji Lad 🇮🇳🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 8⃣
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad
June 8, 1822 - May 31, 1874
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician🇮🇳
His contributions.....
🔹Bhau Daji was born in a small village of Goa, India. His family was poor but he was genius in his early childhood and a brilliant chess player, which attracted the attention of Governer of Bombay.
🔹After completion of schooling, he moved to Mumbai and joined in a famous Elphinstone college in the year 1840.
🔹In 1844, he won the first prize in essay competition on writing about Female Infanticide which was conducted by British Government.
🔹 The Grant Medical College was established in Bombay in 1845. He applied for joining where he was the topper in the merit list. Hence he joined and successfully completed his medical education in 1851.
🔹He was also interested in Sanskrit language and Indian System of Medicine. Which had pushed him to collect more manuscript of medical subjects written in Sanskrit, Arabic and Pali.
🔹While reading the manuscripts he got the historical interest in treating leprosy. He further developed a garden and nurtured many native medical herbs.
🔹He started treating the leprosy patients. After recovery of few patients, he became popular all over the country with great hope.
🔹He used his own preparation of Chaulmoogra oil for leprosy. Which was attracted the attention of modern medical world. This oil was the only source till the next discovery of Dapsone in 1941.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Bhau Daji was an Eminent Surgeon had done many modern surgeries such as lithotripsy, cataract and also in midwifery.
🔹In addition, he had an amazing collection of Ancient Indian Coins and inscriptions of ancient Sanskrit authors.
🔹His sudden demise was left his mission on leprosy incomplete.
🔹The Journal Nature expressed his sad demise as......
"This very remarkable native of India, the true friend of his fellow countrymen as well as of science and learning died on May 31, 1874".
🔹To honour his enormous service The Victoria and Albert Museum was renamed as Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum in 1975, where he was instrumental in raising funds to start this museum in 1872.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Indian Physician
🇮🇳 Dr.Bhau Daji Lad 🇮🇳🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-25 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 9⃣
Dr.Patrick Steptoe
June 9, 1913 - March 21, 1988
💠British Obstetrician
His contributions....
🔸Steptoe had received his medical graduation from St George's Hospital Medical School, London in 1939.
🔸During the Second World War, he was serving in the British Royal Navy Force, where he was arrested and became a Prisoner of War in 1941 in Italy and imprisoned until 1943.
🔸After the war, he started studying Obstetrics and then joined in Oldham General Hospital, U.K where he learned the technique of laparoscopy.
🔸He also established a Family Planning clinic and started a bank for semen donors.
🔸Dr. Steptoe was the first who succeeded in collecting oocyte from preovulatory ovum by his laparoscopic technique. This remarkable achievement was obtained in a district hospital with local backing.
🔸Further, he was the first in Britain to use laparoscopy for routine diagnosis of Gynaecological diseases and first in the world to use laparoscopic technique for sterilization.
🔸He penned his experience and published as a book in the name of Laparoscopy in Gynaecology in 1967.
🔸 Dr. Robert Edward, a British Physiologist from University of Cambridge was successfully achieved a fertilization of the Human egg in the laboratory during 1968.
🔸Further, Dr. Edwards associated with Dr. Steptoe and came out with new development of In-vitro Fertilization in 1969 by using his laparoscopic technique.
🔸They made a breakthrough in conception through IVF. Which was leading to the birth of the First Test Tube Baby Louise Joy Brown on July 25,1978.
🔸Subsequently, they had established the first IVF program for infertility patients and trained other scientist in their technique.
🔸Dr. Patrick Steptoe is remembered for his significant contribution in human reproduction biology.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Obstetric Surgeon's Scope with Laparoscope
Dr. Patrick Steptoe 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 9⃣
Dr.Patrick Steptoe
June 9, 1913 - March 21, 1988
💠British Obstetrician
His contributions....
🔸Steptoe had received his medical graduation from St George's Hospital Medical School, London in 1939.
🔸During the Second World War, he was serving in the British Royal Navy Force, where he was arrested and became a Prisoner of War in 1941 in Italy and imprisoned until 1943.
🔸After the war, he started studying Obstetrics and then joined in Oldham General Hospital, U.K where he learned the technique of laparoscopy.
🔸He also established a Family Planning clinic and started a bank for semen donors.
🔸Dr. Steptoe was the first who succeeded in collecting oocyte from preovulatory ovum by his laparoscopic technique. This remarkable achievement was obtained in a district hospital with local backing.
🔸Further, he was the first in Britain to use laparoscopy for routine diagnosis of Gynaecological diseases and first in the world to use laparoscopic technique for sterilization.
🔸He penned his experience and published as a book in the name of Laparoscopy in Gynaecology in 1967.
🔸 Dr. Robert Edward, a British Physiologist from University of Cambridge was successfully achieved a fertilization of the Human egg in the laboratory during 1968.
🔸Further, Dr. Edwards associated with Dr. Steptoe and came out with new development of In-vitro Fertilization in 1969 by using his laparoscopic technique.
🔸They made a breakthrough in conception through IVF. Which was leading to the birth of the First Test Tube Baby Louise Joy Brown on July 25,1978.
🔸Subsequently, they had established the first IVF program for infertility patients and trained other scientist in their technique.
🔸Dr. Patrick Steptoe is remembered for his significant contribution in human reproduction biology.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Obstetric Surgeon's Scope with Laparoscope
Dr. Patrick Steptoe 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE MAY-26 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 🔟
Gustav Giemsa
Nov 20, 1867 - June 10, 1948
💠German Chemist & Bacteriologist
His contributions ....
🔹Gustav Giemsa was born in Germany. He studied pharmacy and mineralogy at the University of Leipzig and then studied chemistry and bacteriology at the University of Berlin.
🔹After completion of his studies, he began his career as an assistant at Bernhard Nocht Institute (Institute for Tropical Diseases) in Hamburg. Then he gradually promoted as Head of the Department of Chemistry.
🔹Simultaneously, he had improved the Romanowsky stain(eosin & methylene blue).
🔹In fact, he is best remembered for his creation of dye solution, which is commonly known as "Giemsa stain." Giemsa's stain is a mixture of methylene blue, eosin and azure B.
🔹Giemsa used the stain for the histo- pathological diagnosis of parasites such as malaria, trypanasoma, chlamydia, histoplasma and other protozoans.
🔹Ultimately, Giemsa's stain has considered as the world's standard diagnostic technique for malarial parasite and it is also the basic stain for Classifying lymphomas in the Kiel classification.
🔹In modern medicine, Giemsa stain became an essential dye in the field of Cytogenetics.
🔹Also, Giemsa stain is used to stain chromosomes called Giemsa banding or G-banding. It produces a series of light and dark bands, which enables karyotyping and identifies the chromosomal aberrations.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Bacteriologist with Do or Dye
Gustav Giemsa🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 🔟
Gustav Giemsa
Nov 20, 1867 - June 10, 1948
💠German Chemist & Bacteriologist
His contributions ....
🔹Gustav Giemsa was born in Germany. He studied pharmacy and mineralogy at the University of Leipzig and then studied chemistry and bacteriology at the University of Berlin.
🔹After completion of his studies, he began his career as an assistant at Bernhard Nocht Institute (Institute for Tropical Diseases) in Hamburg. Then he gradually promoted as Head of the Department of Chemistry.
🔹Simultaneously, he had improved the Romanowsky stain(eosin & methylene blue).
🔹In fact, he is best remembered for his creation of dye solution, which is commonly known as "Giemsa stain." Giemsa's stain is a mixture of methylene blue, eosin and azure B.
🔹Giemsa used the stain for the histo- pathological diagnosis of parasites such as malaria, trypanasoma, chlamydia, histoplasma and other protozoans.
🔹Ultimately, Giemsa's stain has considered as the world's standard diagnostic technique for malarial parasite and it is also the basic stain for Classifying lymphomas in the Kiel classification.
🔹In modern medicine, Giemsa stain became an essential dye in the field of Cytogenetics.
🔹Also, Giemsa stain is used to stain chromosomes called Giemsa banding or G-banding. It produces a series of light and dark bands, which enables karyotyping and identifies the chromosomal aberrations.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Bacteriologist with Do or Dye
Gustav Giemsa🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE11 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 1⃣1⃣
Dr.Robin Warren
June 11, 1937
💠Australian Pathologist
His contributions.....
🔸Warren imbibed the love for profession of medicine from his mother as she was a nurse. He had completed his MBBS at the University of Adelaide and received the Graduation in 1961.
🔸He then professionally got trained in Pathology at Royal Melbourne hospital in 1967 and became a Pathologist at Royal Perth Hospital. He served there until his retirement in 1999.
🔸On his birthday in 1979, he had found 🔬 the spiral shaped bacteria on the surface of a gastric biopsy. Subsequently, he started collecting many specimens and related those to chronic gastritis.
🔸During that time, there was a strong belief that peptic ulcers are caused only by excess gastric acid secretion. And a School of Teaching was a bacteria never survive in acidic environment of stomach. So his reports got denied several times.
🔸In the year 1980, Dr. Warren was associated with his colleague Dr. Barry Marshall, who was a Physician to reveal the clinical significance of this bacteria.
🔸They did the Clinical-Pathological study with 100 patients affected by gastric ulcer. Dr. Marshall had done biopies in these patients and Warren did pathological study.
🔸It took seven years for them to prove the causative bacteria as Helicobacter pylori by using silver stain which is responsible for gastric ulcer.
🔸But it tooks more than 10 years to recognize their work in the medical community.
🔸Dr. Warren also helped to develop a diagnostic test C 14 urea breath test for detection of H.pylori in gastric ulcer patients.
🔸Their work was honoured by Nobel Prize of Medicine or Physiology in 2005 for the discovery of H.pylori bacteria and its role in gastric ulcer.
🔸Their discovery also leads a breakthrough in understanding the causative link between H.pylori and gastric cancer.
............................................................
An Outstanding Pathologist behind the Paradigm-Shift
The Living Legend
Dr. Robin Warren🙏🏼 Celebrating his birthday today💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 1⃣1⃣
Dr.Robin Warren
June 11, 1937
💠Australian Pathologist
His contributions.....
🔸Warren imbibed the love for profession of medicine from his mother as she was a nurse. He had completed his MBBS at the University of Adelaide and received the Graduation in 1961.
🔸He then professionally got trained in Pathology at Royal Melbourne hospital in 1967 and became a Pathologist at Royal Perth Hospital. He served there until his retirement in 1999.
🔸On his birthday in 1979, he had found 🔬 the spiral shaped bacteria on the surface of a gastric biopsy. Subsequently, he started collecting many specimens and related those to chronic gastritis.
🔸During that time, there was a strong belief that peptic ulcers are caused only by excess gastric acid secretion. And a School of Teaching was a bacteria never survive in acidic environment of stomach. So his reports got denied several times.
🔸In the year 1980, Dr. Warren was associated with his colleague Dr. Barry Marshall, who was a Physician to reveal the clinical significance of this bacteria.
🔸They did the Clinical-Pathological study with 100 patients affected by gastric ulcer. Dr. Marshall had done biopies in these patients and Warren did pathological study.
🔸It took seven years for them to prove the causative bacteria as Helicobacter pylori by using silver stain which is responsible for gastric ulcer.
🔸But it tooks more than 10 years to recognize their work in the medical community.
🔸Dr. Warren also helped to develop a diagnostic test C 14 urea breath test for detection of H.pylori in gastric ulcer patients.
🔸Their work was honoured by Nobel Prize of Medicine or Physiology in 2005 for the discovery of H.pylori bacteria and its role in gastric ulcer.
🔸Their discovery also leads a breakthrough in understanding the causative link between H.pylori and gastric cancer.
............................................................
An Outstanding Pathologist behind the Paradigm-Shift
The Living Legend
Dr. Robin Warren🙏🏼 Celebrating his birthday today💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE12 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 1⃣2⃣
Dr.Bert Sakmann
June 12, 1942
💠German Cell Physiologist
His contributions....
🔹Sakmann studied Medicine at the University of Tubingen and Munich. He received his medical degree from the University of Gottingen in 1974.
🔹He started working as a scientific assistant in Department of Neurobiology at Munich's Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry and then in Biophysical chemistry. There he worked with Dr.Erwin Neher, a German Biophysicst.
🔹Further, they jointly invented Patch- Clamp Technique. By using the technique they are the first who established the existence of Single Ion channels in cell membrane.
🔹This remarkable breakthrough paved a new way of understanding the Membrane Physiology and the ground breaking invention of Patch-Clamp technique is used to study the individual ions channels.
🔹Both were honoured with shared Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in the year 1991 for discoveries concerning the single Ion channels in cell membrane.
🔹Moreover, they published a book called Single Channel Recording (in 1983, 2005). Which consists a variety of techniques used to study membrane channels.
🔹The discovery played an important role in Ion channel related diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy and neuromuscular disease.
🔹It also created a new concept of using therapeutic for targeting on Ion channels for these diseases.
.......................................................
The Living Legend
Dr. Bert Sakmann 🙏🏼
Celebrating his birthday today💐
JUNE 1⃣2⃣
Dr.Bert Sakmann
June 12, 1942
💠German Cell Physiologist
His contributions....
🔹Sakmann studied Medicine at the University of Tubingen and Munich. He received his medical degree from the University of Gottingen in 1974.
🔹He started working as a scientific assistant in Department of Neurobiology at Munich's Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry and then in Biophysical chemistry. There he worked with Dr.Erwin Neher, a German Biophysicst.
🔹Further, they jointly invented Patch- Clamp Technique. By using the technique they are the first who established the existence of Single Ion channels in cell membrane.
🔹This remarkable breakthrough paved a new way of understanding the Membrane Physiology and the ground breaking invention of Patch-Clamp technique is used to study the individual ions channels.
🔹Both were honoured with shared Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in the year 1991 for discoveries concerning the single Ion channels in cell membrane.
🔹Moreover, they published a book called Single Channel Recording (in 1983, 2005). Which consists a variety of techniques used to study membrane channels.
🔹The discovery played an important role in Ion channel related diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy and neuromuscular disease.
🔹It also created a new concept of using therapeutic for targeting on Ion channels for these diseases.
.......................................................
The Living Legend
Dr. Bert Sakmann 🙏🏼
Celebrating his birthday today💐
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-13 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 1⃣3⃣
Dr. Henry Gray
1827 - June 13, 1861
💠English Anatomist & Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Henry Gray studied medicine in 1845 at St George Hospital, London. He was a painstaking and a methodological student who learnt anatomy by dissecting each organ by himself.
🔸He had published several articles although he was being a student.
🔸At his age of 25 years, he was been selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and in the same year he obtained a Astle Cooper Prize for his dissertation on "The Structure and Use of Spleen".
🔸In 1851, he was been appointed as a Demonstrator of Anatomy in St George Hospital and later he was promoted as a lecturer.
🔸Further, he had decided to write a book in 1855, with the help of his colleague as well as friend Dr.Henry Vandyke Carter, who was a skilled illustrator.
🔸In 1858, they jointly published the first edition of anatomy entitled "Anatomy, Descriptive & Surgical" which covered 750 Pages and 363 Illustrations. It was officially titled as "Gray's Anatomy" in the year 1938.
🔸The most famed Anatomist in history Dr. Gray was unfortunately died by contracted smallpox at the age of 34 years while he was taking care of his 10 years old nephew.
🔸Presently, Gray's Anatomy book is running its 41st edition (2015) and still being a definite reference work on human anatomy in the field of medicine.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Creator of Iconic Book
The Doctor's Bible
Dr. Henry Gray 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 1⃣3⃣
Dr. Henry Gray
1827 - June 13, 1861
💠English Anatomist & Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Henry Gray studied medicine in 1845 at St George Hospital, London. He was a painstaking and a methodological student who learnt anatomy by dissecting each organ by himself.
🔸He had published several articles although he was being a student.
🔸At his age of 25 years, he was been selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and in the same year he obtained a Astle Cooper Prize for his dissertation on "The Structure and Use of Spleen".
🔸In 1851, he was been appointed as a Demonstrator of Anatomy in St George Hospital and later he was promoted as a lecturer.
🔸Further, he had decided to write a book in 1855, with the help of his colleague as well as friend Dr.Henry Vandyke Carter, who was a skilled illustrator.
🔸In 1858, they jointly published the first edition of anatomy entitled "Anatomy, Descriptive & Surgical" which covered 750 Pages and 363 Illustrations. It was officially titled as "Gray's Anatomy" in the year 1938.
🔸The most famed Anatomist in history Dr. Gray was unfortunately died by contracted smallpox at the age of 34 years while he was taking care of his 10 years old nephew.
🔸Presently, Gray's Anatomy book is running its 41st edition (2015) and still being a definite reference work on human anatomy in the field of medicine.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Creator of Iconic Book
The Doctor's Bible
Dr. Henry Gray 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-14 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 1⃣5⃣
Dr.David Morley
June 15, 1923 - July 2, 2009
💠British Paediatrician
His contributions....
🔸David Morley studied medicine at St Thomas Hospital, London and received his graduation in 1947.
🔸After his studies, he dedicated himself to cure the health care problems in developing countries.
🔸Hence he went to Africa in 1956 and started his career as a Paediatrician in Nigeria. Further, he started a service center there for village children.
🔸Basically he was a Good innovator. He developed a Double ended plastic spoon designed in such way that the small end for salt and big end for sugar. Which was helping mothers to prepare accurate oral rehydration solution at home itself .
🔸He also developed Under Five Clinic and Road to Health Chart, which is a growth chart to monitor child's weight and to detect early malnutrition. This is being universally following today.
🔸Moreover, he was the first to introduce Mid-arm circumference. Which is used to measure malnutrition in rural settings.
🔸He also introduced the robust weighing scale which could be used to measure childs weight by parents themselves.
🔸Additionally, he introduced the technique of sterilizing water by placing it in sunlight.
🔸Subsequently, he was the first who introduced the Early trials of Measles vaccine and started from his own children.
🔸Moreover, he established a charity and implemented Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC) thereby distributing a set of health related training materials in the form of slides, books & CD's for all cadres of heath care workers in the developing countries.
🔸He was being an instrumental in focusing the Primary Health Care which was later accepted by International community at Alma Ata in 1979.
🔸As well as, he was being a driving force for children's health worldwide. His vision and investigations were incorporated in UNICEF Child Survival Program GOBI (Growth monitoring, Oral rehydration therapy, Breast feeding and Immunization).
🔸He had proved that Infant mortality rate could be reduced by 80% not by modern medicine and the building of hospitals but by education and by use of locally available resources.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Idealist Who practiced What He Preached
Dr. David Morley🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 1⃣5⃣
Dr.David Morley
June 15, 1923 - July 2, 2009
💠British Paediatrician
His contributions....
🔸David Morley studied medicine at St Thomas Hospital, London and received his graduation in 1947.
🔸After his studies, he dedicated himself to cure the health care problems in developing countries.
🔸Hence he went to Africa in 1956 and started his career as a Paediatrician in Nigeria. Further, he started a service center there for village children.
🔸Basically he was a Good innovator. He developed a Double ended plastic spoon designed in such way that the small end for salt and big end for sugar. Which was helping mothers to prepare accurate oral rehydration solution at home itself .
🔸He also developed Under Five Clinic and Road to Health Chart, which is a growth chart to monitor child's weight and to detect early malnutrition. This is being universally following today.
🔸Moreover, he was the first to introduce Mid-arm circumference. Which is used to measure malnutrition in rural settings.
🔸He also introduced the robust weighing scale which could be used to measure childs weight by parents themselves.
🔸Additionally, he introduced the technique of sterilizing water by placing it in sunlight.
🔸Subsequently, he was the first who introduced the Early trials of Measles vaccine and started from his own children.
🔸Moreover, he established a charity and implemented Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC) thereby distributing a set of health related training materials in the form of slides, books & CD's for all cadres of heath care workers in the developing countries.
🔸He was being an instrumental in focusing the Primary Health Care which was later accepted by International community at Alma Ata in 1979.
🔸As well as, he was being a driving force for children's health worldwide. His vision and investigations were incorporated in UNICEF Child Survival Program GOBI (Growth monitoring, Oral rehydration therapy, Breast feeding and Immunization).
🔸He had proved that Infant mortality rate could be reduced by 80% not by modern medicine and the building of hospitals but by education and by use of locally available resources.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Idealist Who practiced What He Preached
Dr. David Morley🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-15 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 1⃣6⃣
Dr. Eduard Heinrich Henoch
June 16, 1820 - Aug 26, 1913
💠German Paediatrician
His contributions....
🔹Henoch studied medicine in Berlin University and got graduated in 1843. There he was a Pupil of Dr.Johann Schonlein.
🔹After his studies, Dr. Henoch focussed his practice in treating the diseases of children.
🔹He also worked as an assistant at the Neurological clinic which was running by his uncle Dr. Moritz Romberg (Famous for his Romberg's Sign)
🔹Dr. Henoch was recognized as a wise clinician and his qualities were rewarded as Professorship in the Berlin University.
🔹He is famous for his eponym....
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
🔅 His teacher Dr.Johann Schonlein (1793-1864) was a Professor of Pathology and Medicine in Germany. He was the first person who recognised the association between arthralgia and purpuric rashes in a child called as Purpura rheumatica in 1837 and also he described about the Renal involvement citing "frequent precipitates in the urine" of the patients.
🔅Subsequently, in 1863 Dr. Henoch had described a case report of 15 years adolescent appeared with purpuric rash.
🔹Later in 1874, he extended his research and published a case study on children describing a Syndrome of Purpura consists of arthralgia and gastrointestinal manifestations of abdominal colic and melena.
🔹He was also the first one who described Purpura fulminans and published a paper on the same on 1886 and further he was the first who described the Nephritis as a complication in this condition by 1895.
🔅Thus the disease description was finally named with both Teacher and Student and thereby the concept continue in medical history till date.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Passionate Student
Dr. Eduard Heinrich Henoch 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 1⃣6⃣
Dr. Eduard Heinrich Henoch
June 16, 1820 - Aug 26, 1913
💠German Paediatrician
His contributions....
🔹Henoch studied medicine in Berlin University and got graduated in 1843. There he was a Pupil of Dr.Johann Schonlein.
🔹After his studies, Dr. Henoch focussed his practice in treating the diseases of children.
🔹He also worked as an assistant at the Neurological clinic which was running by his uncle Dr. Moritz Romberg (Famous for his Romberg's Sign)
🔹Dr. Henoch was recognized as a wise clinician and his qualities were rewarded as Professorship in the Berlin University.
🔹He is famous for his eponym....
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
🔅 His teacher Dr.Johann Schonlein (1793-1864) was a Professor of Pathology and Medicine in Germany. He was the first person who recognised the association between arthralgia and purpuric rashes in a child called as Purpura rheumatica in 1837 and also he described about the Renal involvement citing "frequent precipitates in the urine" of the patients.
🔅Subsequently, in 1863 Dr. Henoch had described a case report of 15 years adolescent appeared with purpuric rash.
🔹Later in 1874, he extended his research and published a case study on children describing a Syndrome of Purpura consists of arthralgia and gastrointestinal manifestations of abdominal colic and melena.
🔹He was also the first one who described Purpura fulminans and published a paper on the same on 1886 and further he was the first who described the Nephritis as a complication in this condition by 1895.
🔅Thus the disease description was finally named with both Teacher and Student and thereby the concept continue in medical history till date.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Passionate Student
Dr. Eduard Heinrich Henoch 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-17 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 1⃣7⃣
Dr. Alexander Shulgin
June 17, 1925 - June 2, 2014
💠American Pharmacologist
His contributions....
🔸Shulgin studied Organic chemistry at Harvard University and did his Ph.D in Biochemistry at the University of California in 1950's.
🔸Then he completed the Post-doctoral work in the field of Psychiatry and Pharmacology. He also studied Neurology at San Francisco School of Medicine.
🔸At the beginning of 20th century, there were only two Psychedelic compounds- Cannabis and Mescaline.
🔸Dr. Shulgin credited with introducing a MDMA (3,4-Methylene Dioxy Meth Amphetamine) or Ecstasy to Psychologist and for Psychopharmaceutical use in late 1970. He further discovered and synthesized around 230 Psychedelic compounds.
🔸He had setup a home-based laboratory and had tested these drugs by himself, giving to his wife Ann Shulgin and to his research group of 6-8 of his close friends.
🔸Moreover, his wife Ann Shulgin and himself authored two books. Those are
🔅 PIHKAL- A chemical love story
PIHKAL standing for
PhenethyIamines- I Have Known and Loved
🔅 TIHKAL- A continuation
TIHKAL standing for
Tryptamine- I Have Known and Loved.
🔸Both of these books have extensively described their experiments and the personal experience with these two classes of psychoactive drug.
🔸Finally, he declared in 1995 as
" I am very confident that the day will come in future to understand my work and then would recognized for its medical value".
🔸Dr. Shulgin become known as the Godfather of Ecstasy. As he prophesied, the door has opened for his drug MDMA in the field of medicine to alleviate the fear and anxiety among terminally ill cancer patients.
🔸Currently, Dr. Shulgin's invention created a breakthrough by using MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Post-traumatic stress disorder and also proposed as an adjunct for other psychiatric disorders.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Maverik Psychopharmacologist
Dr. Alexander Shulgin 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 1⃣7⃣
Dr. Alexander Shulgin
June 17, 1925 - June 2, 2014
💠American Pharmacologist
His contributions....
🔸Shulgin studied Organic chemistry at Harvard University and did his Ph.D in Biochemistry at the University of California in 1950's.
🔸Then he completed the Post-doctoral work in the field of Psychiatry and Pharmacology. He also studied Neurology at San Francisco School of Medicine.
🔸At the beginning of 20th century, there were only two Psychedelic compounds- Cannabis and Mescaline.
🔸Dr. Shulgin credited with introducing a MDMA (3,4-Methylene Dioxy Meth Amphetamine) or Ecstasy to Psychologist and for Psychopharmaceutical use in late 1970. He further discovered and synthesized around 230 Psychedelic compounds.
🔸He had setup a home-based laboratory and had tested these drugs by himself, giving to his wife Ann Shulgin and to his research group of 6-8 of his close friends.
🔸Moreover, his wife Ann Shulgin and himself authored two books. Those are
🔅 PIHKAL- A chemical love story
PIHKAL standing for
PhenethyIamines- I Have Known and Loved
🔅 TIHKAL- A continuation
TIHKAL standing for
Tryptamine- I Have Known and Loved.
🔸Both of these books have extensively described their experiments and the personal experience with these two classes of psychoactive drug.
🔸Finally, he declared in 1995 as
" I am very confident that the day will come in future to understand my work and then would recognized for its medical value".
🔸Dr. Shulgin become known as the Godfather of Ecstasy. As he prophesied, the door has opened for his drug MDMA in the field of medicine to alleviate the fear and anxiety among terminally ill cancer patients.
🔸Currently, Dr. Shulgin's invention created a breakthrough by using MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Post-traumatic stress disorder and also proposed as an adjunct for other psychiatric disorders.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Maverik Psychopharmacologist
Dr. Alexander Shulgin 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-18 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 1⃣8⃣
Dr. Alphonse Laveran
June 18, 1845 - May 18, 1922
💠French Physician & Pathologist
His contributions....
🔸Laveran's father was a military doctor. He was inspired by the way of his father's life. Hence, he joined to study medicine in Public Medical School at the University of Strasbourg and got Graduation in 1867.
🔸After his studies, he joined in military service. Initially he served as an Ambulance officer during the civil war. Suddenly, he was arrested and became a Prisoner of War. While he was imprisoned, he got involved in observing the infectious disease spreaded among the soldiers.
🔸Later he was moved to serve in military hospital Algeria, where he witnessed many soldiers and civilians died due to Malaria fever. He had conducted autopsy in patients and found a Black Granular Microscopic Bodies in the blood and in the internal organs like brain, liver and spleen.
🔸On November 6,1880, while examining the blood smear he had noticed the malarial parasite and also he spotted the same organism in 148 out of 192 cases he examined.
🔸In the year 1888, he convinced Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux regarding his new investigation of Protozoa which was considered as etiological agent of Malaria.
🔸He further named the organism as Oscilliaria malariae (later changed to Plasmodium malariae)
🔸He also pioneered on Trypanosomes particularly Sleeping sickness. He once again proved protozoa was responsible for the disease.
🔸In 1907, he was been honoured with Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his discovery of the causative agent of malaria.
🔸Moreover, he voluntarily donated half his Nobel prize money to Pasteur Institute for supporting them to establish the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine.
🔸In 1884, he also suggested that the vector is Mosquito. Subsequently, Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. Giovanni Grassi and Sir Ronald Ross were elucidated the life cycle of malarial parasite and the transmission of the disease by Anophelese mosquito.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician Who Dedicated His Life for the Discovery of Malarial Parasite
Dr. Alphonse Laveran 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 1⃣8⃣
Dr. Alphonse Laveran
June 18, 1845 - May 18, 1922
💠French Physician & Pathologist
His contributions....
🔸Laveran's father was a military doctor. He was inspired by the way of his father's life. Hence, he joined to study medicine in Public Medical School at the University of Strasbourg and got Graduation in 1867.
🔸After his studies, he joined in military service. Initially he served as an Ambulance officer during the civil war. Suddenly, he was arrested and became a Prisoner of War. While he was imprisoned, he got involved in observing the infectious disease spreaded among the soldiers.
🔸Later he was moved to serve in military hospital Algeria, where he witnessed many soldiers and civilians died due to Malaria fever. He had conducted autopsy in patients and found a Black Granular Microscopic Bodies in the blood and in the internal organs like brain, liver and spleen.
🔸On November 6,1880, while examining the blood smear he had noticed the malarial parasite and also he spotted the same organism in 148 out of 192 cases he examined.
🔸In the year 1888, he convinced Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux regarding his new investigation of Protozoa which was considered as etiological agent of Malaria.
🔸He further named the organism as Oscilliaria malariae (later changed to Plasmodium malariae)
🔸He also pioneered on Trypanosomes particularly Sleeping sickness. He once again proved protozoa was responsible for the disease.
🔸In 1907, he was been honoured with Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his discovery of the causative agent of malaria.
🔸Moreover, he voluntarily donated half his Nobel prize money to Pasteur Institute for supporting them to establish the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine.
🔸In 1884, he also suggested that the vector is Mosquito. Subsequently, Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. Giovanni Grassi and Sir Ronald Ross were elucidated the life cycle of malarial parasite and the transmission of the disease by Anophelese mosquito.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician Who Dedicated His Life for the Discovery of Malarial Parasite
Dr. Alphonse Laveran 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-19 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 1⃣9⃣
Dr.Subhash Mukherjee
Jan 16, 1931 - June 19, 1981
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician 🇮🇳
💠Creator of First IVF in India
His contributions....
🔸Mukherjee was born in a town Hazaribagh (now in Jharkhand state) India.
🔸His father was a doctor. Mukherjee got influenced by his father, so he joined to study medicine in Calcutta Medical College and received graduation in 1955 with an honours degree in Physiology.
🔸He further done his Doctorate in Reproductive Physiology at the University of Calcutta in 1958 and also completed his second Doctorate from the University of Edinburg, London in 1967 on Reproductive Endocrinology.
🔸He had created the World's second and India's First In-Vitro Fertilization on October 3, 1978 and pioneered with the help of co-scientist and some general apparatus & a refrigerator.
🔸India's first test tube baby Durga (Kanupriya) was born in 67 days after the first IVF done by Dr. Robert Edwards in U.K.
🔸Instead of being honoured, Dr. Mukherjee was critizised for his new development and also penalty was made against him.
🔸Ultimately, his research paper was termed as absolutely bogus. Which was destroyed his greatest tolerance. Hence he decided to take his life and committed sucide on 1981.
🔸His discovery came to light by the intiative taken by Dr. T.C Anand Kumar who was credited for his achievement of first human test tube baby of India on August 16th 1986.
🔸While attending a Science conference in 1997 at Calcutta Dr. Mukherjee's hand written documents was handed over to Dr. Anand kumar. After scrutinizing and discussing with Durga's parents, he had concluded that Dr. Mukerjee preceded him by eight years.
🔸By the effort of Dr. Anand kumar in 2002, the ICMR had recognized Dr. Mukherjee's work and acknowledged him as the Architect of India's First Test Tube Baby.
🔸In 2003, Durga on her 25th Birthday, as well as 25th Anniversary of IVF in India, she was honoured in a big conference on IVF held at Bangalore which was organised by Dr. Anand kumar.
🔸There she exposed her identity and said "I am proud to be living example of work of a genius."
A Day to Commemorate...
The Genius
🇮🇳 Dr. Subhash Mukherjee🇮🇳 🙏🏼
The Physician Who Stood for Truth and Honesty
The Legend
🇮🇳 Dr. T.C. Anand Kumar🇮🇳🙏🏼
...........................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 1⃣9⃣
Dr.Subhash Mukherjee
Jan 16, 1931 - June 19, 1981
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician 🇮🇳
💠Creator of First IVF in India
His contributions....
🔸Mukherjee was born in a town Hazaribagh (now in Jharkhand state) India.
🔸His father was a doctor. Mukherjee got influenced by his father, so he joined to study medicine in Calcutta Medical College and received graduation in 1955 with an honours degree in Physiology.
🔸He further done his Doctorate in Reproductive Physiology at the University of Calcutta in 1958 and also completed his second Doctorate from the University of Edinburg, London in 1967 on Reproductive Endocrinology.
🔸He had created the World's second and India's First In-Vitro Fertilization on October 3, 1978 and pioneered with the help of co-scientist and some general apparatus & a refrigerator.
🔸India's first test tube baby Durga (Kanupriya) was born in 67 days after the first IVF done by Dr. Robert Edwards in U.K.
🔸Instead of being honoured, Dr. Mukherjee was critizised for his new development and also penalty was made against him.
🔸Ultimately, his research paper was termed as absolutely bogus. Which was destroyed his greatest tolerance. Hence he decided to take his life and committed sucide on 1981.
🔸His discovery came to light by the intiative taken by Dr. T.C Anand Kumar who was credited for his achievement of first human test tube baby of India on August 16th 1986.
🔸While attending a Science conference in 1997 at Calcutta Dr. Mukherjee's hand written documents was handed over to Dr. Anand kumar. After scrutinizing and discussing with Durga's parents, he had concluded that Dr. Mukerjee preceded him by eight years.
🔸By the effort of Dr. Anand kumar in 2002, the ICMR had recognized Dr. Mukherjee's work and acknowledged him as the Architect of India's First Test Tube Baby.
🔸In 2003, Durga on her 25th Birthday, as well as 25th Anniversary of IVF in India, she was honoured in a big conference on IVF held at Bangalore which was organised by Dr. Anand kumar.
🔸There she exposed her identity and said "I am proud to be living example of work of a genius."
A Day to Commemorate...
The Genius
🇮🇳 Dr. Subhash Mukherjee🇮🇳 🙏🏼
The Physician Who Stood for Truth and Honesty
The Legend
🇮🇳 Dr. T.C. Anand Kumar🇮🇳🙏🏼
...........................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-20 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 2⃣0⃣
Dr. S.I. Padmavati
June 20, 1917
💠🇮🇳Indian Cardiologist🇮🇳
💠First Women Cardiologist of India
Her contributions....
🔹Padmavati was born in Rangoon and did her medical studies in Rangoon Medical College in 1940's.
🔹Then she completed her Fellowship at Royal College of Physicians, London and in Edinburg.
🔹Further, she was learning under the guidance of well-known Cardiologist Dr. Helen Taussing at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and sometime under Dr. Paul Dudely White, a Pioneer of Modern Cardiology in Harvard Medical School, United States.
🔹After returning India, she initiated her medical service in 1953 at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi. Where she began the First cardiac clinic and cath lab with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
🔹She became a Director-Principal of Maulana Azad Medidcal College (MAMC) in 1967.
🔹Dr. Padmavati holds many first in her career, she was the first established the Department of Cardiology at the G. B. Pant Hospital, Delhi.
🔹She also started the Department of Cardiology at MAMC as well as First DM Cardiology course in India.
🔹She was the first founded All India Heart Foundation to spread awareness related to heart disease.
🔹After her retirement in 1981, she founded Asia's first heart institution- National Heart Institute, Delhi. Which is instrumental in training Physicians in Preventive Cardiology.
🔹Through out her life time, she had conducted many clinical investigations and published over 300 research articles on preventive cardiovascular medicine.
🔹Ultimately, her meritorious services was honoured with Harvard Medical International award, B.C Roy award, and Kamla Menon Research award.
🔹The Indian Government also honoured her twice for the pioneering work in Cardiology by Padma Bhushan award in 1967 and Padma Vibhushan award in 1992.
............................................................
The Doyenne of Cardiology in India
🇮🇳 Dr. S.I. Padmavati🇮🇳
Celebrating her birthday today🙏🏼💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 2⃣0⃣
Dr. S.I. Padmavati
June 20, 1917
💠🇮🇳Indian Cardiologist🇮🇳
💠First Women Cardiologist of India
Her contributions....
🔹Padmavati was born in Rangoon and did her medical studies in Rangoon Medical College in 1940's.
🔹Then she completed her Fellowship at Royal College of Physicians, London and in Edinburg.
🔹Further, she was learning under the guidance of well-known Cardiologist Dr. Helen Taussing at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and sometime under Dr. Paul Dudely White, a Pioneer of Modern Cardiology in Harvard Medical School, United States.
🔹After returning India, she initiated her medical service in 1953 at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi. Where she began the First cardiac clinic and cath lab with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
🔹She became a Director-Principal of Maulana Azad Medidcal College (MAMC) in 1967.
🔹Dr. Padmavati holds many first in her career, she was the first established the Department of Cardiology at the G. B. Pant Hospital, Delhi.
🔹She also started the Department of Cardiology at MAMC as well as First DM Cardiology course in India.
🔹She was the first founded All India Heart Foundation to spread awareness related to heart disease.
🔹After her retirement in 1981, she founded Asia's first heart institution- National Heart Institute, Delhi. Which is instrumental in training Physicians in Preventive Cardiology.
🔹Through out her life time, she had conducted many clinical investigations and published over 300 research articles on preventive cardiovascular medicine.
🔹Ultimately, her meritorious services was honoured with Harvard Medical International award, B.C Roy award, and Kamla Menon Research award.
🔹The Indian Government also honoured her twice for the pioneering work in Cardiology by Padma Bhushan award in 1967 and Padma Vibhushan award in 1992.
............................................................
The Doyenne of Cardiology in India
🇮🇳 Dr. S.I. Padmavati🇮🇳
Celebrating her birthday today🙏🏼💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-21 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JUNE 2⃣ 1⃣
Dr.Anton Nuhn
June 21, 1814 - June 27, 1889
💠German Anatomist
His contributions.....
🔸Nuhn studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and started his career as a Professor at the Institute of Anatomy in Heidelberg.
🔸Dr. Nuhn had shown a great interest in observing Gross Anatomy. Which made him to spend around 40 years of his life for researching the same.
🔸He researched Lymphatic system and found its relationship with Venous system.
🔸He further described the Process vaginalis which is an important structure in hernia repair.
🔸 His eponym...
🔅 Nuhn gland also called as Anterior Lingual Gland, a seromucous gland located near the apex of the tongue on either side of the frenulum.
🔸Dr. Nuhn also wrote a detailed dissection manual and compiled his investigations as a book with anatomical illustrations for surgeons. His work is being cited in many anatomy and surgical text books till now.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Creator of Vintage Anatomical Illustrations
Dr. Anton Nuhn 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 2⃣ 1⃣
Dr.Anton Nuhn
June 21, 1814 - June 27, 1889
💠German Anatomist
His contributions.....
🔸Nuhn studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and started his career as a Professor at the Institute of Anatomy in Heidelberg.
🔸Dr. Nuhn had shown a great interest in observing Gross Anatomy. Which made him to spend around 40 years of his life for researching the same.
🔸He researched Lymphatic system and found its relationship with Venous system.
🔸He further described the Process vaginalis which is an important structure in hernia repair.
🔸 His eponym...
🔅 Nuhn gland also called as Anterior Lingual Gland, a seromucous gland located near the apex of the tongue on either side of the frenulum.
🔸Dr. Nuhn also wrote a detailed dissection manual and compiled his investigations as a book with anatomical illustrations for surgeons. His work is being cited in many anatomy and surgical text books till now.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Creator of Vintage Anatomical Illustrations
Dr. Anton Nuhn 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-22 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
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JUNE 2⃣2⃣
Sir William Macewen
June 22, 1848 - March 22, 1924
💠Scottish Surgeon
His contributions.....
🔹Macewen studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland and he got graduated in 1872.
🔹During his days, he was influenced by Sir Joseph Lister for his distinguished approach in surgery.
🔹Hence, Dr. Macewen adopted Joseph Lister's systematic method of scrubbing, disinfection of hands and arms, sterilization of surgical equipments and use of surgical gowns.
🔹Consequently, he was able to advance the modern surgical techniques including the mastoid surgery, bone graft surgery, hernia repair and pneumonectomy for the treatment of patients with tuberculosis and lung cancer.
🔹He also pioneered many modern brain surgery and on spinal cord.
🔹Subsequently, he had introduced the technique of Endotracheal anaesthesia with the help of Orotracheal intubation in the year 1880.
🔹His eponyms....
🔅Macewan's triangle - Suprameatal triangle
🔅Macewen's sign in hydrocephalus
🔅Macewen's operation for Inguinal hernia
🔅Macewen's classification for avascular necrosis
🔅Macewen's osteotome
🔅Macewen's drill
🔹Dr. Macewen also pioneered the Clinical Photography📷. He had taken photographs before, during and after the surgery for documentation and teaching purposes.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Great Surgeon and an Experimental Researcher
Sir William Macewen 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 2⃣2⃣
Sir William Macewen
June 22, 1848 - March 22, 1924
💠Scottish Surgeon
His contributions.....
🔹Macewen studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland and he got graduated in 1872.
🔹During his days, he was influenced by Sir Joseph Lister for his distinguished approach in surgery.
🔹Hence, Dr. Macewen adopted Joseph Lister's systematic method of scrubbing, disinfection of hands and arms, sterilization of surgical equipments and use of surgical gowns.
🔹Consequently, he was able to advance the modern surgical techniques including the mastoid surgery, bone graft surgery, hernia repair and pneumonectomy for the treatment of patients with tuberculosis and lung cancer.
🔹He also pioneered many modern brain surgery and on spinal cord.
🔹Subsequently, he had introduced the technique of Endotracheal anaesthesia with the help of Orotracheal intubation in the year 1880.
🔹His eponyms....
🔅Macewan's triangle - Suprameatal triangle
🔅Macewen's sign in hydrocephalus
🔅Macewen's operation for Inguinal hernia
🔅Macewen's classification for avascular necrosis
🔅Macewen's osteotome
🔅Macewen's drill
🔹Dr. Macewen also pioneered the Clinical Photography📷. He had taken photographs before, during and after the surgery for documentation and teaching purposes.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Great Surgeon and an Experimental Researcher
Sir William Macewen 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-27 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
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JUNE 2⃣7⃣
Dr. Jacob Blumberg
June 27, 1873 - 1955
💠German surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Blumberg had done his medical studies at the University of Breslow and got his Graduation in 1896.
🔸After his studies, he got trained in surgery from Dr.Jan Mikulicz, who described the Mikulicz syndrome and additionally from physician Dr.Albert Neisser, discoverer of Neisseria gonorrhea.
🔸Later, he worked with well famous Dr.Paul Zweifel, who was the first to describe that fetus in utero is metabolically active by consuming oxygen, which was conveyed in the year 1876.
🔸In his career, he investigated the methods for sterilization of surgeons hand. It resulted in invention of Surgical Rubber Gloves.
🔸Also, he became very famous for his eponyms...
🔅 Blumberg's sign or Rebound tenderness indicative of Peritonitis.
🔸In later part of his life, he had shown interest in the new fields of Radium and Radiology. He further obtained radium from Curie Institute and founded an X-Ray and Radium Institute in Berlin.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Eminent Surgeon
Dr.Jacob Blumberg 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-28 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
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JUNE 2⃣8⃣
Dr. Vladimir Kernig
June 28, 1840 - April 18, 1917
💠Russian Physician
His contributions.....
🔹Kernig had done his medical studies at Dorpat and got his Graduation in 1864.
🔹He further practiced medicine at Obuchow's Womens Clinic and later in Institute for Deaf and Mute at St Petersburg.
🔹Moreover, he had published many articles but he became famous by his pioneer work on diagnosis of meningitis.
🔹In 1884, he had published his clinical observation of Kernig's Sign. Here he emphasized the examination of the patients in the sitting as well as in supine position to elucidate the sign.
🔹However, his work was not recognized until Dr.Arnold Netter, a French Physician studied the sign during an epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis at Paris in 1898.
🔹Subsequently, Dr. Netter had proved that this sign almost always present in meningitis but not as specific as Kernig had stated.
🔹Finally, it was Sir William Osler, who greatly simplified and improved this maneuver by demonstrating the sign in supine position.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Wise Clinician
Dr. Vladimir Kernig 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 2⃣8⃣
Dr. Vladimir Kernig
June 28, 1840 - April 18, 1917
💠Russian Physician
His contributions.....
🔹Kernig had done his medical studies at Dorpat and got his Graduation in 1864.
🔹He further practiced medicine at Obuchow's Womens Clinic and later in Institute for Deaf and Mute at St Petersburg.
🔹Moreover, he had published many articles but he became famous by his pioneer work on diagnosis of meningitis.
🔹In 1884, he had published his clinical observation of Kernig's Sign. Here he emphasized the examination of the patients in the sitting as well as in supine position to elucidate the sign.
🔹However, his work was not recognized until Dr.Arnold Netter, a French Physician studied the sign during an epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis at Paris in 1898.
🔹Subsequently, Dr. Netter had proved that this sign almost always present in meningitis but not as specific as Kernig had stated.
🔹Finally, it was Sir William Osler, who greatly simplified and improved this maneuver by demonstrating the sign in supine position.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Wise Clinician
Dr. Vladimir Kernig 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-29 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
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JUNE 2⃣9⃣
Dr. William James Mayo
June 29, 1861 - July 28, 1939
💠American Surgeon
💠Founder of Mayo Foundation
His contributions....
🔸James Mayo was the eldest son of Dr.William Worrall Mayo. He wanted to follow the footsteps of his father, so he completed his MD degree in 1883 at the University of Mitchigan.
🔸Besides, he got trained from his father as a surgeon. While practicing, a terrible tornado 🌪affected the city Rochester and caused many casualties.
🔸Because of the unavailability of hospital in the city, the victims were taken to local dance hall and treated by Mayo family.
🔸During the disaster, Dr. Mayo was voluntarily assisted by the charity of sisters from Saint Francis under the leadership of Mother Moes⛪.
🔸Further, based on the continuous insistence of Mother Moes, they started raising the funds and built a permanent hospital in the city called St Mary's Hospital.
🔸Dr. William James Mayo joined with his younger brother Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, both had performed successful surgeries at St Mary's Hospital and became more famous.
🔸His Eponyms...
🔅Mayo operation- Radical cure for umbilical hernia
🔅Mayo vein or Prepyloric vein
🔸After his father's retirement, Mayo brothers along with five other doctors had jointly incorporated the St.Mary's Hospital as "Mayo Clinic".
🔸Later, Mayo brothers had turned it to Non-profit organization as Mayo Foundation in 1919 with the consent of other founders.
🔸By the admiring administration of Dr. James Mayo, the 40 bedded hospital had grew into a huge Non-Profit Hospital cum Educational Institute in a very short span.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Promoter of Multidisciplinary Approach to Patient's Care
Dr. William James Mayo🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜ Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JUNE 2⃣9⃣
Dr. William James Mayo
June 29, 1861 - July 28, 1939
💠American Surgeon
💠Founder of Mayo Foundation
His contributions....
🔸James Mayo was the eldest son of Dr.William Worrall Mayo. He wanted to follow the footsteps of his father, so he completed his MD degree in 1883 at the University of Mitchigan.
🔸Besides, he got trained from his father as a surgeon. While practicing, a terrible tornado 🌪affected the city Rochester and caused many casualties.
🔸Because of the unavailability of hospital in the city, the victims were taken to local dance hall and treated by Mayo family.
🔸During the disaster, Dr. Mayo was voluntarily assisted by the charity of sisters from Saint Francis under the leadership of Mother Moes⛪.
🔸Further, based on the continuous insistence of Mother Moes, they started raising the funds and built a permanent hospital in the city called St Mary's Hospital.
🔸Dr. William James Mayo joined with his younger brother Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, both had performed successful surgeries at St Mary's Hospital and became more famous.
🔸His Eponyms...
🔅Mayo operation- Radical cure for umbilical hernia
🔅Mayo vein or Prepyloric vein
🔸After his father's retirement, Mayo brothers along with five other doctors had jointly incorporated the St.Mary's Hospital as "Mayo Clinic".
🔸Later, Mayo brothers had turned it to Non-profit organization as Mayo Foundation in 1919 with the consent of other founders.
🔸By the admiring administration of Dr. James Mayo, the 40 bedded hospital had grew into a huge Non-Profit Hospital cum Educational Institute in a very short span.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Promoter of Multidisciplinary Approach to Patient's Care
Dr. William James Mayo🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜ Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JUNE-30 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JUNE 3⃣0⃣
Joseph Caventou
June 30, 1795 - May 5, 1877
💠French Chemist
💠Founder of Alkaloid Chemistry
His contributions...
🔹Caventou was the son of an apothecary. He studied Pharmacy and started his career as a Professor of Toxicology (1835 - 1860) at School of Pharmacy in Paris.
🔹He further associated with his mentor Joseph Pelletier, who did a notable research on plant alkaloids.
🔹After some time, both together discovered Chlorophyll (choosed the Greek word of Green leaf) in 1817. It's a green chemical used by plants for photosynthesis.
🔹The Duo also extracted useful plant alkaloids such as,
🔅 Emetine (1817) from Ipecacuanha
🔅 Strychnine (1818) from Nux vomica
🔅 Colchicine (1819) from Colchicum autumnale plant
🔅 Quinine (1820) from the bark of cinchona tree
🔅 Caffeine (1821) from coffee beans
🔹However, they both refused to patent their discovery of their compounds.
🔹Subsequently, they had published the method of Extracting Quinine and Cinchonine from Cinchona bark. Therefore, anybody can use the method and manufacture Quinine to combat malaria.
🔹To honor his devoted work, the crater "Caventou" on moon🌕 has given his name.
🔹Both of them were honoured Philatelically by the France Government in 1970 on the celebration of 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Quinine.
🔹This year 2020 is the 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Quinine.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Duo Who Contributed Alkaloid Chemistry to the Field of Medicine
The Discoverer of Quinine from the Bark of Fever Tree
Joseph Pelletier
Joseph Caventou🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr.M.Gowri sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
JUNE 3⃣0⃣
Joseph Caventou
June 30, 1795 - May 5, 1877
💠French Chemist
💠Founder of Alkaloid Chemistry
His contributions...
🔹Caventou was the son of an apothecary. He studied Pharmacy and started his career as a Professor of Toxicology (1835 - 1860) at School of Pharmacy in Paris.
🔹He further associated with his mentor Joseph Pelletier, who did a notable research on plant alkaloids.
🔹After some time, both together discovered Chlorophyll (choosed the Greek word of Green leaf) in 1817. It's a green chemical used by plants for photosynthesis.
🔹The Duo also extracted useful plant alkaloids such as,
🔅 Emetine (1817) from Ipecacuanha
🔅 Strychnine (1818) from Nux vomica
🔅 Colchicine (1819) from Colchicum autumnale plant
🔅 Quinine (1820) from the bark of cinchona tree
🔅 Caffeine (1821) from coffee beans
🔹However, they both refused to patent their discovery of their compounds.
🔹Subsequently, they had published the method of Extracting Quinine and Cinchonine from Cinchona bark. Therefore, anybody can use the method and manufacture Quinine to combat malaria.
🔹To honor his devoted work, the crater "Caventou" on moon🌕 has given his name.
🔹Both of them were honoured Philatelically by the France Government in 1970 on the celebration of 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Quinine.
🔹This year 2020 is the 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Quinine.
A Day to Commemorate....
The Duo Who Contributed Alkaloid Chemistry to the Field of Medicine
The Discoverer of Quinine from the Bark of Fever Tree
Joseph Pelletier
Joseph Caventou🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr.M.Gowri sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-01 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 1⃣
🇮🇳 Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy🇮🇳
July 1,1882-July 1,1962
💠🇮🇳Indian Physician🇮🇳
His contributions....
🔹B.C Roy was born at Patna, Bihar. He had done his medical education at Calcutta Medical College.
🔹While being a medical student, he was deeply impressed by the inscription "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might". This became a source of inspiration for him throughout his life.
🔹In 1909, he went to England for his higher studies and completed his MRCP and FRCS at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and returned to India in 1911.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Roy was a famous freedom fighter and a friend of Mahatma Gandhi. He had a strong belief that freedom would remain a dream unless the people became healthy and strong in mind and body.
🔹Dr. Roy further started his Political career in 1925 and served for Calcutta Corporation from 1930-31 and also been a Mayor in 1933.
🔹During his period, he implemented free education, free medical aid and established the infrastructure of the city.
🔹After the independence, he became the second Chief Minister of West Bengal in 1948 and he had served in that post for 14 years until his death.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Roy was recognized as an Architect of Modern Bengal. Because, he established industrial hubs out of Calcutta and also founded 5 cities in Bengal, namely Durgapur, Kalyani, Bidan nagar, Ashoke nagar and Habra.
🔹He also pioneered in founding Indian Medical Association in 1928 and the Medical Council of India. Also, he served as the first President of MCI.
🔹Consequently, he established the First Postgraduate Medical College, Infectious Disease Hospitals and Institute of Mental Health at Calcutta.
🔹Finally, his enormous contribution was honoured with countries highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1961.
🔹In addition, his birthday (July 1st) has been declared to celebrate as
"National Doctors Day".
🔹In 1962, an annual award in the name of Dr. B.C. Roy National award was initiated by Medical Council of India, for rewarding the outstanding service in the field of medicine, science, philosophy, politics, literature and arts.
A Day to Commemorate...
🇮🇳A Legendary India's Iconic Physician🇮🇳
Dr. B.C. Roy🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 1⃣
🇮🇳 Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy🇮🇳
July 1,1882-July 1,1962
💠🇮🇳Indian Physician🇮🇳
His contributions....
🔹B.C Roy was born at Patna, Bihar. He had done his medical education at Calcutta Medical College.
🔹While being a medical student, he was deeply impressed by the inscription "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might". This became a source of inspiration for him throughout his life.
🔹In 1909, he went to England for his higher studies and completed his MRCP and FRCS at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and returned to India in 1911.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Roy was a famous freedom fighter and a friend of Mahatma Gandhi. He had a strong belief that freedom would remain a dream unless the people became healthy and strong in mind and body.
🔹Dr. Roy further started his Political career in 1925 and served for Calcutta Corporation from 1930-31 and also been a Mayor in 1933.
🔹During his period, he implemented free education, free medical aid and established the infrastructure of the city.
🔹After the independence, he became the second Chief Minister of West Bengal in 1948 and he had served in that post for 14 years until his death.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Roy was recognized as an Architect of Modern Bengal. Because, he established industrial hubs out of Calcutta and also founded 5 cities in Bengal, namely Durgapur, Kalyani, Bidan nagar, Ashoke nagar and Habra.
🔹He also pioneered in founding Indian Medical Association in 1928 and the Medical Council of India. Also, he served as the first President of MCI.
🔹Consequently, he established the First Postgraduate Medical College, Infectious Disease Hospitals and Institute of Mental Health at Calcutta.
🔹Finally, his enormous contribution was honoured with countries highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1961.
🔹In addition, his birthday (July 1st) has been declared to celebrate as
"National Doctors Day".
🔹In 1962, an annual award in the name of Dr. B.C. Roy National award was initiated by Medical Council of India, for rewarding the outstanding service in the field of medicine, science, philosophy, politics, literature and arts.
A Day to Commemorate...
🇮🇳A Legendary India's Iconic Physician🇮🇳
Dr. B.C. Roy🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-02 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 2⃣
Dr. Robert Edward Gross
July 2, 1905 - Oct 11, 1988
💠American Pediatric Surgeon
His contributions....
🔹Gross was born as the son of best Piano maker. While studying Chemistry, he got two-volume set of Sir Harvey Cushing's monumental biography "The Life of Sir William Osler".
🔹As he was captivated by Dr. Osler's work, he enrolled at the Harvard Medical College after completion of his graduation in Chemistry.
🔹Further to the completion of medical studies, he started his career under Dr. William Ladd, who was a Professor of Pediatric surgery at Boston children's hospital.
🔹Dr. Gross was the first who performed the successful ligation of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a 7 years old girl on Aug 26, 1938, which became a milestone in the development of cardiac surgery.
🔹In addition, he did the First successful corrective surgery for Coarctation of aorta in 1945.
🔹He also performed many other innovative procedures. Later, he did one of the largest series in the world of successful open heart repairs in congenital anomalies of the heart in infants and children.
🔹Joined with Dr.William Ladd, he published the first textbook on surgery in children called "Abdominal Surgery of Infancy and Children" in 1941. This book is considered as the masterpiece in surgical literature.
🔹In 1953, he published his classical book, "The Surgery of Infancy and Children", which is often referred as "The Green Bible".
🔹Moreover, he was the founding father of American Board of Surgery & American Board of Thoracic surgery.
🔹He was one of the great pioneers in cardiac surgeries with brilliant career spanning more than 40 years. His tremendous contributions have altered the practice, understanding of surgery, pediatrics and cardiology all over the world.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Surgeon with Remarkable Career
Dr. Robert Edward Gross 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 2⃣
Dr. Robert Edward Gross
July 2, 1905 - Oct 11, 1988
💠American Pediatric Surgeon
His contributions....
🔹Gross was born as the son of best Piano maker. While studying Chemistry, he got two-volume set of Sir Harvey Cushing's monumental biography "The Life of Sir William Osler".
🔹As he was captivated by Dr. Osler's work, he enrolled at the Harvard Medical College after completion of his graduation in Chemistry.
🔹Further to the completion of medical studies, he started his career under Dr. William Ladd, who was a Professor of Pediatric surgery at Boston children's hospital.
🔹Dr. Gross was the first who performed the successful ligation of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a 7 years old girl on Aug 26, 1938, which became a milestone in the development of cardiac surgery.
🔹In addition, he did the First successful corrective surgery for Coarctation of aorta in 1945.
🔹He also performed many other innovative procedures. Later, he did one of the largest series in the world of successful open heart repairs in congenital anomalies of the heart in infants and children.
🔹Joined with Dr.William Ladd, he published the first textbook on surgery in children called "Abdominal Surgery of Infancy and Children" in 1941. This book is considered as the masterpiece in surgical literature.
🔹In 1953, he published his classical book, "The Surgery of Infancy and Children", which is often referred as "The Green Bible".
🔹Moreover, he was the founding father of American Board of Surgery & American Board of Thoracic surgery.
🔹He was one of the great pioneers in cardiac surgeries with brilliant career spanning more than 40 years. His tremendous contributions have altered the practice, understanding of surgery, pediatrics and cardiology all over the world.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Surgeon with Remarkable Career
Dr. Robert Edward Gross 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-03 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
* HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 3⃣
Sir William C.Gorgas
Oct 3, 1854 - July 3, 1920
💠United States Army Physician
💠Pioneer in the field of Public health & Tropical Medicine
His contributions....
🔸Gorgas had done his medical studies at Bellevue Medical College, New York and got graduated in 1879. After completion of his studies, he joined in Medical corps U.S Army in 1880.
🔸During his service, unfortunately he was suffered with mild form of Yellow fever. As he was immune, he was appointed as a sanitary officer in Havana, where yellow fever was endemic.
🔸There he started conducting many experiments in transmission of yellow fever. While Major Walter Reed, an U.S army physician had proved that Female Aedes mosquito spreads the disease.
🔸Dr. Gorgas was very much impressed about the investigation of Dr. Reed. Then Dr. Gorgas successfully eliminated the disease by sanitation measures. Thereby, he became popular among Havana citizens.
🔸Panama canal is an artificial waterway in tropical rain forest area of 82 km in Panama connecting Atlantic ocean with the Pacific ocean. Where France couldn't complete the construction of canal in Panama because of high mortality rate among workers due to yellow fever and malaria.
🔸Hence, the United States took over the project in 1904 and appointed Dr.Gorgas as a Chief sanitary officer.
🔸He was instrumental in constructing the canal by implementing proper sanitary programs including draining of ponds, fumigation, mosquito netting and public water systems thereby he prevented illness among thousands of workers involved in construction projects.
🔸Thus, he was broadly recognized for his accomplishment. Consequently, he was elected as President of American Medical Association.
🔸After his retirement in 1918, he continued his service as a Director of the Yellow Fever Control Program under Rockfeller Foundation in South America and Africa, where he was admired as a hero.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Preventive Medicine Genius
Sir William C. Gorgas 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 3⃣
Sir William C.Gorgas
Oct 3, 1854 - July 3, 1920
💠United States Army Physician
💠Pioneer in the field of Public health & Tropical Medicine
His contributions....
🔸Gorgas had done his medical studies at Bellevue Medical College, New York and got graduated in 1879. After completion of his studies, he joined in Medical corps U.S Army in 1880.
🔸During his service, unfortunately he was suffered with mild form of Yellow fever. As he was immune, he was appointed as a sanitary officer in Havana, where yellow fever was endemic.
🔸There he started conducting many experiments in transmission of yellow fever. While Major Walter Reed, an U.S army physician had proved that Female Aedes mosquito spreads the disease.
🔸Dr. Gorgas was very much impressed about the investigation of Dr. Reed. Then Dr. Gorgas successfully eliminated the disease by sanitation measures. Thereby, he became popular among Havana citizens.
🔸Panama canal is an artificial waterway in tropical rain forest area of 82 km in Panama connecting Atlantic ocean with the Pacific ocean. Where France couldn't complete the construction of canal in Panama because of high mortality rate among workers due to yellow fever and malaria.
🔸Hence, the United States took over the project in 1904 and appointed Dr.Gorgas as a Chief sanitary officer.
🔸He was instrumental in constructing the canal by implementing proper sanitary programs including draining of ponds, fumigation, mosquito netting and public water systems thereby he prevented illness among thousands of workers involved in construction projects.
🔸Thus, he was broadly recognized for his accomplishment. Consequently, he was elected as President of American Medical Association.
🔸After his retirement in 1918, he continued his service as a Director of the Yellow Fever Control Program under Rockfeller Foundation in South America and Africa, where he was admired as a hero.
A Day to Commemorate....
A Preventive Medicine Genius
Sir William C. Gorgas 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-04 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
Indians Contribution in Medicine
JULY 4⃣
🇮🇳 ACHARYA CHARAKA 🇮🇳
💠Father of Indian Medicine
His contributions....
🔹Acharya Charaka lived in 100-200 BCE.
🔹He was one of the fundamental contributor of the ancient art and science of Ayurveda.
🔹Ayurvedha was the oldest medical system based on herbs and its compound raised in the Vedic period of India.
🔹Ayurveda means "Lifespan built on knowledge" or "Science of life", which was practiced in India for centuries before the Greek Physician Hippocrates arose (460-379 BCE).
🔹He also authored a book called Charaka Samhita, which contains eight main chapters. For about two millennia, it reminded a standard work on subject and translated to Arabic and Latin languages.
🔹The book has about 120 sub chapters, totally 12,000 shlokas and descriptions of 2000 medicines.
🔹Charaka had also studied the Anatomy of Human body and described about 360 bones in the body including teeth.
🔹Subsequently, he recognised that the Heart is the controlling centre, which connected to the entire body through 13 channels. He also claimed that any obstruction in the main channels led to a disease or deformity in the body.
🔹Furthermore, he described the Fundamentals of Genetics. He further disclosed that the genetic defect in a child is due to the defect of sperm or ovum of the parents.
🔹Moreover, he was the first physician who stated the concept of Digestion, Metabolism and Immunity.
🔹Accordingly, he emphasised the body functions based on three Doshas or Principles.Those are Vata (movement), Pitta (transformation) and Kapha (lubrication and stability) in a living body.
🔹The three Doshas are corresponding to the Western classification of humors- wind, bile and phlegm.
🔹He further stated that illness is caused due to the imbalance in between three energies in the body and the body needs medicine to restore balance.
🔹He has also prescribed the ethical charter for medical practitioners well prior to the Hippocratic oath.
🔹Eventually, Acharya Charaka stated that "A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding, can never treat the diseases. He should first study all the factors including environment, which influences a patient disease and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure".
A Day to Commemorate...
An Ancient Indian Physician
🇮🇳 Acharya Charaka 🇮🇳🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Indians Contribution in Medicine
JULY 4⃣
🇮🇳 ACHARYA CHARAKA 🇮🇳
💠Father of Indian Medicine
His contributions....
🔹Acharya Charaka lived in 100-200 BCE.
🔹He was one of the fundamental contributor of the ancient art and science of Ayurveda.
🔹Ayurvedha was the oldest medical system based on herbs and its compound raised in the Vedic period of India.
🔹Ayurveda means "Lifespan built on knowledge" or "Science of life", which was practiced in India for centuries before the Greek Physician Hippocrates arose (460-379 BCE).
🔹He also authored a book called Charaka Samhita, which contains eight main chapters. For about two millennia, it reminded a standard work on subject and translated to Arabic and Latin languages.
🔹The book has about 120 sub chapters, totally 12,000 shlokas and descriptions of 2000 medicines.
🔹Charaka had also studied the Anatomy of Human body and described about 360 bones in the body including teeth.
🔹Subsequently, he recognised that the Heart is the controlling centre, which connected to the entire body through 13 channels. He also claimed that any obstruction in the main channels led to a disease or deformity in the body.
🔹Furthermore, he described the Fundamentals of Genetics. He further disclosed that the genetic defect in a child is due to the defect of sperm or ovum of the parents.
🔹Moreover, he was the first physician who stated the concept of Digestion, Metabolism and Immunity.
🔹Accordingly, he emphasised the body functions based on three Doshas or Principles.Those are Vata (movement), Pitta (transformation) and Kapha (lubrication and stability) in a living body.
🔹The three Doshas are corresponding to the Western classification of humors- wind, bile and phlegm.
🔹He further stated that illness is caused due to the imbalance in between three energies in the body and the body needs medicine to restore balance.
🔹He has also prescribed the ethical charter for medical practitioners well prior to the Hippocratic oath.
🔹Eventually, Acharya Charaka stated that "A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding, can never treat the diseases. He should first study all the factors including environment, which influences a patient disease and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure".
A Day to Commemorate...
An Ancient Indian Physician
🇮🇳 Acharya Charaka 🇮🇳🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-05 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 5⃣
Dr.Mathieu Jaboulay
July 5, 1860 - Nov 4, 1913
💠French Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Jaboulay studied medicine at Lyon School of Medicine, France. He started his career as an anatomy demonstrator and later, he became the head of anatomy in 1886.
🔸His interest in anatomy made him to focuss towards surgery. Basically he was a great innovator. Hence he developed invaluable principles in the field of surgery.
🔸In 1889, he was the first who proposed the Sympathectomy to treat occlusive arterial disease in extremities. He also stripped Periarterial sympathectics to treat exophthalmos, glaucoma, tic douloureux, as well as vascular insufficiency.
🔸In 1902, he was appointed as a Professor of Clinical Surgery in Lyon.
🔸Moreover, he was well-known for his experimental surgeries. He was the first who described the Side to Side Gastroduodenostomy (Jaboulay's pyloroplasty).
🔸He also invented Jaboulay's button, which is an alternate to sutures for lateral intestinal anastomosis.
🔸In addition, he was the first who performed the Xenotransplantation. By using this method, pig and goat kidneys were transplanted to humans.
🔸He further described the Excision Eversion procedure (Jaboulay procedure) for the management of hydrocele. His method for hydrocele repair, serves as the most common scrotal Day-Care procedure till date.
🔸His other eponyms...
🔅 Jaboulay's amputation -
An amputation of entire leg together with hip bone
🔅 Jaboulay's method -
A procedure for anastomosis of arteries.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Skilful Surgeon
Dr. Mathieu Jaboulay 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 5⃣
Dr.Mathieu Jaboulay
July 5, 1860 - Nov 4, 1913
💠French Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Jaboulay studied medicine at Lyon School of Medicine, France. He started his career as an anatomy demonstrator and later, he became the head of anatomy in 1886.
🔸His interest in anatomy made him to focuss towards surgery. Basically he was a great innovator. Hence he developed invaluable principles in the field of surgery.
🔸In 1889, he was the first who proposed the Sympathectomy to treat occlusive arterial disease in extremities. He also stripped Periarterial sympathectics to treat exophthalmos, glaucoma, tic douloureux, as well as vascular insufficiency.
🔸In 1902, he was appointed as a Professor of Clinical Surgery in Lyon.
🔸Moreover, he was well-known for his experimental surgeries. He was the first who described the Side to Side Gastroduodenostomy (Jaboulay's pyloroplasty).
🔸He also invented Jaboulay's button, which is an alternate to sutures for lateral intestinal anastomosis.
🔸In addition, he was the first who performed the Xenotransplantation. By using this method, pig and goat kidneys were transplanted to humans.
🔸He further described the Excision Eversion procedure (Jaboulay procedure) for the management of hydrocele. His method for hydrocele repair, serves as the most common scrotal Day-Care procedure till date.
🔸His other eponyms...
🔅 Jaboulay's amputation -
An amputation of entire leg together with hip bone
🔅 Jaboulay's method -
A procedure for anastomosis of arteries.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Skilful Surgeon
Dr. Mathieu Jaboulay 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-06 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 6⃣
Dr. Marshall M. Parks
July 6, 1918 - July 25, 2005
💠American Ophthalmologist
💠Father of Pediatric Ophthalmology
His contributions....
🔹Parks had done his medical studies at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and got his Graduation in 1943.
🔹He further studied pediatric ophthalmology under the guidance of his mentor Dr. Frank D.Costenbader, who was recognized as the World's first pediatric ophthalmologist.
🔹Both together started the First fellowship training program for pediatric ophthalmology.
🔹Moreover, he was the founder of Children's Eye Hospital in Washington D.C and dedicated his life for improving the vision care of children.
🔹He also a visionary leader, who was playing a main role for the formation of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.
🔹As an innovator and pioneer, his seminal contributions are
🔅Description of the monofixation syndrome
🔅Diagnosis and treatment of strabismus and amblyopia
🔅Benefit of very early strabismus surgery (by age of 1 year)
🔅Innovative surgical techniques for infantile cataract
🔹Consequently, Dr. Parks was considered as a driving force and a significant contribution to the development of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus managment.
🔹In addition, he had published around 12 books and many scientific articles.
🔹Finally, he was honoured for his devoted work with numerous awards including American Ophthalmology Society and American Academy of Ophthalmology Laureate awards.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Man of Vision
Dr.Marshall M. Parks 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 6⃣
Dr. Marshall M. Parks
July 6, 1918 - July 25, 2005
💠American Ophthalmologist
💠Father of Pediatric Ophthalmology
His contributions....
🔹Parks had done his medical studies at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and got his Graduation in 1943.
🔹He further studied pediatric ophthalmology under the guidance of his mentor Dr. Frank D.Costenbader, who was recognized as the World's first pediatric ophthalmologist.
🔹Both together started the First fellowship training program for pediatric ophthalmology.
🔹Moreover, he was the founder of Children's Eye Hospital in Washington D.C and dedicated his life for improving the vision care of children.
🔹He also a visionary leader, who was playing a main role for the formation of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.
🔹As an innovator and pioneer, his seminal contributions are
🔅Description of the monofixation syndrome
🔅Diagnosis and treatment of strabismus and amblyopia
🔅Benefit of very early strabismus surgery (by age of 1 year)
🔅Innovative surgical techniques for infantile cataract
🔹Consequently, Dr. Parks was considered as a driving force and a significant contribution to the development of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus managment.
🔹In addition, he had published around 12 books and many scientific articles.
🔹Finally, he was honoured for his devoted work with numerous awards including American Ophthalmology Society and American Academy of Ophthalmology Laureate awards.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Man of Vision
Dr.Marshall M. Parks 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-07 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 7⃣
Dr. Camillo Golgi
July 7, 1843 - Jan 21, 1926
💠Italian Pathologist
His contributions.....
🔸Golgi was born in a small village called Corteno (now named as Corteno Golgi in his honor). He was the son of District Medical Officer.
🔸Golgi was quite impressed by his father's work and wanted to follow his foot steps. Hence he joined to study medicine at the University of Pavia and got his graduation in 1865.
🔸He further influenced by Dr. Giulio Bizzozero, who was a specialist in histology of nervous system. Golgi started his experimental medicine with Bizzozero and became an established clinician and histopathologist in 1872.
🔸In 1873, he developed a special staining technique by using silver nitrate. He was the First who revealed neural cells-the axons and the dendrites. He called this method as Black reactions (later renamed as Golgi stain method).
🔸Subsequently, he was the first who gave clear description about the structure of cerebellum, olfactory bulb, hippocampus and spinalcord.
🔸His eponyms...
🔅 Golgi apparatus- an intracellular structure
🔅 Golgi cell- a cerebellar interneurons
🔅 Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscles-an encapsulated sensory nerve endings
🔅 Golgi tendon organ- proprioceptive nerve endings in tendon
🔅 Golgi cycle- Erythrocytic cycle in human malaria
🔸Additionally, he involved himself in malaria research by helping Dr. Alphonse Laveran and proved that malaria parasite was a microscopic protozoa.
🔸He further studied about malarial parasite and its transmission. He revealed that malaria fever caused by asexual stage in human's blood (Erythrocytic cycle or Golgi cycle).
🔸He also described two types of malaria namely, Tertian and Quartan malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae respectively.
🔸One of the most famous beneficiary of Golgi's work was the famous Spanish Histologist Dr. Ramon y Cajal. By using Golgi's stain method, he discovered and declared that "Neurons are the fundamental structural unit of the nervous system."
🔸Finally, Dr. Golgi received the shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Ramon y Cajal for the work on the structure of the nervous system in 1906.
A Day to Commemorate...
One of the Founding Father of Modern Neuroscience
Dr. Camillo Golgi 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 7⃣
Dr. Camillo Golgi
July 7, 1843 - Jan 21, 1926
💠Italian Pathologist
His contributions.....
🔸Golgi was born in a small village called Corteno (now named as Corteno Golgi in his honor). He was the son of District Medical Officer.
🔸Golgi was quite impressed by his father's work and wanted to follow his foot steps. Hence he joined to study medicine at the University of Pavia and got his graduation in 1865.
🔸He further influenced by Dr. Giulio Bizzozero, who was a specialist in histology of nervous system. Golgi started his experimental medicine with Bizzozero and became an established clinician and histopathologist in 1872.
🔸In 1873, he developed a special staining technique by using silver nitrate. He was the First who revealed neural cells-the axons and the dendrites. He called this method as Black reactions (later renamed as Golgi stain method).
🔸Subsequently, he was the first who gave clear description about the structure of cerebellum, olfactory bulb, hippocampus and spinalcord.
🔸His eponyms...
🔅 Golgi apparatus- an intracellular structure
🔅 Golgi cell- a cerebellar interneurons
🔅 Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscles-an encapsulated sensory nerve endings
🔅 Golgi tendon organ- proprioceptive nerve endings in tendon
🔅 Golgi cycle- Erythrocytic cycle in human malaria
🔸Additionally, he involved himself in malaria research by helping Dr. Alphonse Laveran and proved that malaria parasite was a microscopic protozoa.
🔸He further studied about malarial parasite and its transmission. He revealed that malaria fever caused by asexual stage in human's blood (Erythrocytic cycle or Golgi cycle).
🔸He also described two types of malaria namely, Tertian and Quartan malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae respectively.
🔸One of the most famous beneficiary of Golgi's work was the famous Spanish Histologist Dr. Ramon y Cajal. By using Golgi's stain method, he discovered and declared that "Neurons are the fundamental structural unit of the nervous system."
🔸Finally, Dr. Golgi received the shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Ramon y Cajal for the work on the structure of the nervous system in 1906.
A Day to Commemorate...
One of the Founding Father of Modern Neuroscience
Dr. Camillo Golgi 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-08 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 8⃣
Colonel. John Stith Pemberton
July 8, 1831- Aug 16, 1888
💠American Physician & Chemist
💠Inventor of Coca-Cola
His contributions....
♦Pemberton was born in Knoxville, Georgia, United States. He was curious in chemistry even at his young age.
♦️Hence, he joined to study Medicine and Pharmacy at the Reform Medical College of Georgia. At the very young age of 19 years, he got a licence to practice pharmacy.
♦Initially, he practised Medicine and Surgery and later he established a wholesale retail drug business.
♦During the American Civil War, he went to serve as a Lieutenant Colonel. While serving, he was severely injured. He was taking morphine to relieve from his pain but slowly got addicted to it.
♦To overcome his addiction, he started replacing with painkillers, which acts as a opium free medicine alternative to morphine.
♦Further experimenting, he discovered a tonic composed extract of Peruvian coca, the purest wine and kola nut, which he called as Pemperton's French Wine Coca.
♦He was forced to take out alcohol in his tonic due to new prohibition law in the city. Therefore, he blended with carbonated water and started selling this as beverage rather than medicine and coined the term as "Coca-Cola."
♦Subsequently, he marketed the same as Valuable Brain Tonic, which is "Delicious and Refreshing" to cure headache, anxiety, depression and indigestion.
♦Unfortunately, he fell ill due to his early intake of morphine. Hence he sold his Secret formula to meet his expense and to combat addiction.
♦He strongly believed that....
"His formula would be accepted one day as national drink".
A Day to Commemorate....
A Creator of Refreshing Idea
Colonel. John Stith Pemberton🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 8⃣
Colonel. John Stith Pemberton
July 8, 1831- Aug 16, 1888
💠American Physician & Chemist
💠Inventor of Coca-Cola
His contributions....
♦Pemberton was born in Knoxville, Georgia, United States. He was curious in chemistry even at his young age.
♦️Hence, he joined to study Medicine and Pharmacy at the Reform Medical College of Georgia. At the very young age of 19 years, he got a licence to practice pharmacy.
♦Initially, he practised Medicine and Surgery and later he established a wholesale retail drug business.
♦During the American Civil War, he went to serve as a Lieutenant Colonel. While serving, he was severely injured. He was taking morphine to relieve from his pain but slowly got addicted to it.
♦To overcome his addiction, he started replacing with painkillers, which acts as a opium free medicine alternative to morphine.
♦Further experimenting, he discovered a tonic composed extract of Peruvian coca, the purest wine and kola nut, which he called as Pemperton's French Wine Coca.
♦He was forced to take out alcohol in his tonic due to new prohibition law in the city. Therefore, he blended with carbonated water and started selling this as beverage rather than medicine and coined the term as "Coca-Cola."
♦Subsequently, he marketed the same as Valuable Brain Tonic, which is "Delicious and Refreshing" to cure headache, anxiety, depression and indigestion.
♦Unfortunately, he fell ill due to his early intake of morphine. Hence he sold his Secret formula to meet his expense and to combat addiction.
♦He strongly believed that....
"His formula would be accepted one day as national drink".
A Day to Commemorate....
A Creator of Refreshing Idea
Colonel. John Stith Pemberton🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-09 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 9⃣
Dr. Carlos Chagas
July 9,1879 - Nov 8, 1934
💠Brazilian Physician & Bacteriologist
His contributions....
🔸Chagas was born as the son of coffee farmer and unfortunately he lost his father at a very young age of 4 years. Inspired by his uncle's Doctor profession he did his medical studies at Medical School of Rio de Janeiro and got his Graduation in 1902.
🔸After completion of his studies, he started his career at Oswaldo Cruz Institute, where he worked with Dr.Oswaldo Cruz.
🔸Dr.Chagas was subjected to the mission of fighting against malaria in epidemics. While doing the ground work activities, he identified an exclusive method of preventing adult mosquitoes by applying insecticides.
🔸Subsequently, he introduced Pyrethrum as an insecticide and succeeded as well. This method was easily adopted, which was practised as the basic level of prevention of malaria all over the world.
🔸In 1909, he was sent to combat malaria outbreak in Amazon.
🔅During his field work, he observed the swelling over the face of many victims. He found that the swelling occurred by the bite of Blood-sucking Kissing bugs, and named it as triatomis.
🔅Also he discovered that intestine of the bugs harboured flagellate protozoa, a new species and named it as Trypanasoma cruzi (to honor Dr.Oswaldo Cruz).
🔅He also proved experimentally that it could be transmitted to humans and monkeys by the bite of bugs.
🔅Consequently, his all Triple discovery on causative agent, vector & mode of transmission led to a new tropical parasitic disease and named as Chagas disease, which is also known as American trypanosomiasis.
🔸Further, he was the first to unknowingly discover and illustrate the fungus Pneumocystis in the lung of animals infected by trypanosomiasis.
🔸 World Chagas Disease Day is observed on April 14. It was on this date in 1909 that the first patient, a Brazilian girl was diagnosed for this disease by Dr. Chagas.
🔸Finally, his extensive work was recognized as one of the most important achievements in the field of Parasitology.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician of Outstanding Field Performance
Dr. Carlos Chagas 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 9⃣
Dr. Carlos Chagas
July 9,1879 - Nov 8, 1934
💠Brazilian Physician & Bacteriologist
His contributions....
🔸Chagas was born as the son of coffee farmer and unfortunately he lost his father at a very young age of 4 years. Inspired by his uncle's Doctor profession he did his medical studies at Medical School of Rio de Janeiro and got his Graduation in 1902.
🔸After completion of his studies, he started his career at Oswaldo Cruz Institute, where he worked with Dr.Oswaldo Cruz.
🔸Dr.Chagas was subjected to the mission of fighting against malaria in epidemics. While doing the ground work activities, he identified an exclusive method of preventing adult mosquitoes by applying insecticides.
🔸Subsequently, he introduced Pyrethrum as an insecticide and succeeded as well. This method was easily adopted, which was practised as the basic level of prevention of malaria all over the world.
🔸In 1909, he was sent to combat malaria outbreak in Amazon.
🔅During his field work, he observed the swelling over the face of many victims. He found that the swelling occurred by the bite of Blood-sucking Kissing bugs, and named it as triatomis.
🔅Also he discovered that intestine of the bugs harboured flagellate protozoa, a new species and named it as Trypanasoma cruzi (to honor Dr.Oswaldo Cruz).
🔅He also proved experimentally that it could be transmitted to humans and monkeys by the bite of bugs.
🔅Consequently, his all Triple discovery on causative agent, vector & mode of transmission led to a new tropical parasitic disease and named as Chagas disease, which is also known as American trypanosomiasis.
🔸Further, he was the first to unknowingly discover and illustrate the fungus Pneumocystis in the lung of animals infected by trypanosomiasis.
🔸 World Chagas Disease Day is observed on April 14. It was on this date in 1909 that the first patient, a Brazilian girl was diagnosed for this disease by Dr. Chagas.
🔸Finally, his extensive work was recognized as one of the most important achievements in the field of Parasitology.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician of Outstanding Field Performance
Dr. Carlos Chagas 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-10 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
A Tribute to the Renowned Inventor and a Modern Prometheus
JULY 🔟
Nikola Tesla
July 10, 1856 - Jan 7, 1943
💠Serbian Born-American Inventor
His contributions....
🔹During Tesla's young age, he got inspired by his physics teacher, who had demonstrated him the electricity. Further, Tesla wanted "To know more about this wonderful force". Hence he studied electrical engineering and physics in Austria during 1870.
🔹After completion of his studies, he emigrated to United States where he began his career with Thomas Alva Edison. In a short period, he started his own Tesla Corporation, and developed electrical and mechanical devices.
🔹In 1882, he had done a ground breaking discovery called as Rotative Magnetic Field. Which was a fundamental discovery in MRI scan design.
🔹 Subsequently, he had discovered X-rays at the time of Roentgen. He took his very first X-ray of his friend Mark Twain by using crookes tube. Then he published his X-ray photos in Electric Review book during 1896.
🔹Unfortunately, Tesla's work got destroyed due to sudden fire accident at his warehouse. At the same time Roentgen had announced his discovery of X-rays.
🔹In 1950, Dr.Herman Carr, an American physicist created a One-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging by using Tesla's Radiation Magnetic Field.
🔹In medical field, Tesla is called as SI derived unit of magnetic flux density and today MRI machines are calibrated as 1.5 Tesla & 3.0 Tesla.
🔹Also, he had 300 patents that covered every part of science and technology, which are very famous till date.
🔹His other significant discoveries...
🔅Fluorescent light
🔅Wireless transmission of electrical energy
🔅Three-phase electric power
🔅Remote control
🔅Discovery of cosmic radio waves
🔅Cryogenic engineering.....
🔹As well as Tesla was highly influenced by our Indian yogi Swami Vivekananda.
🔹Since Tesla got inspired, he charmed to hear Vivekananda's notions of Prana, akasha and kalpas, which are the three elementary concepts of the Vedantic doctrine respectively with the modern science concept of Tesla such as Prana as a unit of Energy, akasha as Matter, and kalpas as Time.
🔹Thus, Tesla developed the understanding of Indian Vedic Science and he began using the Ancient Sanskrit Terminologys and Concepts for his world acclaimed work on Free Energy.
🔹Eventually in the year 2018, India and Serbia jointly issued Swami Vivekananda & Nikola Tesla stamps for honouring 70 years of diplomatic relations between India and Serbia.
🔹In fact, Nikola Tesla was more concerned about inventions than becoming famous.
🔹Hence, he proved himself as a genius, whose discoveries had played a main role in upgrading us to the modern era. Moreover, his inventions had not only shaped the medical field but the entire world🌎.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Genius of 20th Century
Nikola Tesla 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
A Tribute to the Renowned Inventor and a Modern Prometheus
JULY 🔟
Nikola Tesla
July 10, 1856 - Jan 7, 1943
💠Serbian Born-American Inventor
His contributions....
🔹During Tesla's young age, he got inspired by his physics teacher, who had demonstrated him the electricity. Further, Tesla wanted "To know more about this wonderful force". Hence he studied electrical engineering and physics in Austria during 1870.
🔹After completion of his studies, he emigrated to United States where he began his career with Thomas Alva Edison. In a short period, he started his own Tesla Corporation, and developed electrical and mechanical devices.
🔹In 1882, he had done a ground breaking discovery called as Rotative Magnetic Field. Which was a fundamental discovery in MRI scan design.
🔹 Subsequently, he had discovered X-rays at the time of Roentgen. He took his very first X-ray of his friend Mark Twain by using crookes tube. Then he published his X-ray photos in Electric Review book during 1896.
🔹Unfortunately, Tesla's work got destroyed due to sudden fire accident at his warehouse. At the same time Roentgen had announced his discovery of X-rays.
🔹In 1950, Dr.Herman Carr, an American physicist created a One-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging by using Tesla's Radiation Magnetic Field.
🔹In medical field, Tesla is called as SI derived unit of magnetic flux density and today MRI machines are calibrated as 1.5 Tesla & 3.0 Tesla.
🔹Also, he had 300 patents that covered every part of science and technology, which are very famous till date.
🔹His other significant discoveries...
🔅Fluorescent light
🔅Wireless transmission of electrical energy
🔅Three-phase electric power
🔅Remote control
🔅Discovery of cosmic radio waves
🔅Cryogenic engineering.....
🔹As well as Tesla was highly influenced by our Indian yogi Swami Vivekananda.
🔹Since Tesla got inspired, he charmed to hear Vivekananda's notions of Prana, akasha and kalpas, which are the three elementary concepts of the Vedantic doctrine respectively with the modern science concept of Tesla such as Prana as a unit of Energy, akasha as Matter, and kalpas as Time.
🔹Thus, Tesla developed the understanding of Indian Vedic Science and he began using the Ancient Sanskrit Terminologys and Concepts for his world acclaimed work on Free Energy.
🔹Eventually in the year 2018, India and Serbia jointly issued Swami Vivekananda & Nikola Tesla stamps for honouring 70 years of diplomatic relations between India and Serbia.
🔹In fact, Nikola Tesla was more concerned about inventions than becoming famous.
🔹Hence, he proved himself as a genius, whose discoveries had played a main role in upgrading us to the modern era. Moreover, his inventions had not only shaped the medical field but the entire world🌎.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Genius of 20th Century
Nikola Tesla 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-11 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 1⃣1⃣
Dr.Michael DeBakey
Sep 7, 1908 - July 11, 2008
💠Lebanese-American Cardiovascular surgeon
His contributions...
🔸DeBakey had done his medical studies at Tulane University School of Medicine, Louisiana, United States and got his MD graduation in 1932.
🔸He further did his Surgical Fellowship at the University of Strasbourg, France and at University of Heidelberg, Germany.
🔸During the Second World War, he was serving as a surgeon in the U.S Army and developed Mobile Army Surgery Hospital (MASH) unit for treating the wounded soldiers.
🔸Then he got appointed as a Professor of Surgery in Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Later, he became a Director of his own establishment The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Centre at Houston.
🔸DeBakey was recognized as a Man of Innovations at his young age of 23 years. While being a medical student, he developed Roller Pump which is an essential component of Heart-Lung Machine to provide continuous flow of blood during Open-Heart Surgery.
🔸He was being one of the greatest surgeons at his period and he revolutionized the field of cardiology.
🔸He was one of the earliest surgeon to perform the coronary artery bypass graft. He also did the first carotid endarterectomy & first one used the Dacron grafts to repair an artery.
🔸Subsequently, he was the first surgeon had successfully used the Implanted Heart Device (Left Ventricular Assisted Device).
🔸He also contributed greatly for medical education by introducing the practice of Filming surgical procedures with an overhead camera🎥 in OT.
🔸Moreover, his curiosity made him to invent many surgical techniques and medical devices.
His eponyms...
🔅 DeBakey Classification- Three types of dissection of aorta
🔅 DeBakey
Arterial clamp
Coarctation clamp
Aortic aneurysm clamp
Patent ductus clamp
Bull dog clamp
🔅 DeBakey
Ball-valve prosthesis
Vascular prosthesis
🔅 DeBakey
Scissors
Forceps
Needle
Tunneler
Stripper
🔅 DeBakey
Implant
Graft
🔸DeBakey's innovations had supported to preserve his own life in 2006. He suffered from dissected aortic aneurysm and underwent the repair procedure, a surgical technique which was devised by him 50 yrs back.
🔸He had served for a long period of time around 75 years of his life in the field of medicine and he continued to practice medicine until his death at the age of 99 years.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Groundbreaking Cardiac surgeon of 20th century
Dr. Michael DeBakey 🙏🏼
................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 1⃣1⃣
Dr.Michael DeBakey
Sep 7, 1908 - July 11, 2008
💠Lebanese-American Cardiovascular surgeon
His contributions...
🔸DeBakey had done his medical studies at Tulane University School of Medicine, Louisiana, United States and got his MD graduation in 1932.
🔸He further did his Surgical Fellowship at the University of Strasbourg, France and at University of Heidelberg, Germany.
🔸During the Second World War, he was serving as a surgeon in the U.S Army and developed Mobile Army Surgery Hospital (MASH) unit for treating the wounded soldiers.
🔸Then he got appointed as a Professor of Surgery in Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Later, he became a Director of his own establishment The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Centre at Houston.
🔸DeBakey was recognized as a Man of Innovations at his young age of 23 years. While being a medical student, he developed Roller Pump which is an essential component of Heart-Lung Machine to provide continuous flow of blood during Open-Heart Surgery.
🔸He was being one of the greatest surgeons at his period and he revolutionized the field of cardiology.
🔸He was one of the earliest surgeon to perform the coronary artery bypass graft. He also did the first carotid endarterectomy & first one used the Dacron grafts to repair an artery.
🔸Subsequently, he was the first surgeon had successfully used the Implanted Heart Device (Left Ventricular Assisted Device).
🔸He also contributed greatly for medical education by introducing the practice of Filming surgical procedures with an overhead camera🎥 in OT.
🔸Moreover, his curiosity made him to invent many surgical techniques and medical devices.
His eponyms...
🔅 DeBakey Classification- Three types of dissection of aorta
🔅 DeBakey
Arterial clamp
Coarctation clamp
Aortic aneurysm clamp
Patent ductus clamp
Bull dog clamp
🔅 DeBakey
Ball-valve prosthesis
Vascular prosthesis
🔅 DeBakey
Scissors
Forceps
Needle
Tunneler
Stripper
🔅 DeBakey
Implant
Graft
🔸DeBakey's innovations had supported to preserve his own life in 2006. He suffered from dissected aortic aneurysm and underwent the repair procedure, a surgical technique which was devised by him 50 yrs back.
🔸He had served for a long period of time around 75 years of his life in the field of medicine and he continued to practice medicine until his death at the age of 99 years.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Groundbreaking Cardiac surgeon of 20th century
Dr. Michael DeBakey 🙏🏼
................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-12 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
A Tribute to the Seminal Figure in Medicine
JULY 1️⃣2⃣
Sir William Osler
July 12, 1849 - Dec 29, 1919
💠Canadian Physician
💠Father of Modern Medicine
His contributions....
🔹Osler had done his Medical studies at McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada and got his graduation in 1872.
🔹After completion of his Post graduation training in Europe, he joined as a Professor at McGills University in 1874.
🔹He was a sagacious Physician and his charismatic personality facilitated numerous enhancements in the field of medicine. He was the first who created the concept of Journal club. Also, he was the founder of Association of American Physicians.
🔹Moreover, he was one of the four founding Professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
🔹Consequently, he became instrumental in creation of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as its First Professor of Medicine.
🔹Additionally, he began the first Medical Residency Program as a special training for physicians and he was the first one to bring the medical students out of a study hall for Bedside Clinical Medicine. He also pioneered the practice of bedside teaching by making rounds with a handful of students.
🔹He was a greatest diagnostician and always appeared with a Stethoscope.
🔹His eponyms...
🔅 Osler's node- in Infective endocarditis
🔅 Osler's sign / Osler's manoeuver - in Pseudo hypertension
🔅 Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome- also known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
🔅 Osler-Vaquez disease- also known as Polycythemia vera
🔅 Osler-Libman-Sacks syndrome- in SLE
🔅 Osler's triad- Pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis
🔅 Sphryanura osleri- a trematode worm
🔹His first significant and scientific textbook of medicine was "The Principles and Practices of Medicine" which was published in 1892 and later translated in many languages.
🔹Osler was a versatile reader, who had a great collection of 📚 books relevant to History of Medicine. His historical collections have arranged at McGills University's Faculty of Medicine as Osler's Library.
🔹The Great Clinician wanted his epitaph to read such as "He taught medical students at the bedside".
A Day to Commemorate...
A Greatest Icon of Modern Medicine
The Father of Patient-Based Education
Sir William Osler🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
A Tribute to the Seminal Figure in Medicine
JULY 1️⃣2⃣
Sir William Osler
July 12, 1849 - Dec 29, 1919
💠Canadian Physician
💠Father of Modern Medicine
His contributions....
🔹Osler had done his Medical studies at McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada and got his graduation in 1872.
🔹After completion of his Post graduation training in Europe, he joined as a Professor at McGills University in 1874.
🔹He was a sagacious Physician and his charismatic personality facilitated numerous enhancements in the field of medicine. He was the first who created the concept of Journal club. Also, he was the founder of Association of American Physicians.
🔹Moreover, he was one of the four founding Professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
🔹Consequently, he became instrumental in creation of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as its First Professor of Medicine.
🔹Additionally, he began the first Medical Residency Program as a special training for physicians and he was the first one to bring the medical students out of a study hall for Bedside Clinical Medicine. He also pioneered the practice of bedside teaching by making rounds with a handful of students.
🔹He was a greatest diagnostician and always appeared with a Stethoscope.
🔹His eponyms...
🔅 Osler's node- in Infective endocarditis
🔅 Osler's sign / Osler's manoeuver - in Pseudo hypertension
🔅 Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome- also known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
🔅 Osler-Vaquez disease- also known as Polycythemia vera
🔅 Osler-Libman-Sacks syndrome- in SLE
🔅 Osler's triad- Pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis
🔅 Sphryanura osleri- a trematode worm
🔹His first significant and scientific textbook of medicine was "The Principles and Practices of Medicine" which was published in 1892 and later translated in many languages.
🔹Osler was a versatile reader, who had a great collection of 📚 books relevant to History of Medicine. His historical collections have arranged at McGills University's Faculty of Medicine as Osler's Library.
🔹The Great Clinician wanted his epitaph to read such as "He taught medical students at the bedside".
A Day to Commemorate...
A Greatest Icon of Modern Medicine
The Father of Patient-Based Education
Sir William Osler🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-14 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 1⃣4⃣
Dr.Johannes Peter Muller
July 14, 1801 - April 28, 1858
💠German Physiologist
His contributions.....
🔹Muller was born as the son of shoemaker. He was very talented at his young age and he made his own translation of Aristotle.
🔹Then he studied medicine at the University of Bonn, Germany in 1819. After his studies, he started working as a lecturer in Physiology and Comparative anatomy at University of Bonn.
🔹Later he became a Professor of anatomy and physiology in University of Berlin, Germany.
🔹Muller contributed himself in numerous Domains of physiology, especially in Speech, voice and hearing as well as in Physical and chemical properties of blood, chyle and lymph.
🔹Moreover, he did the comparative physiology of human and animal visual sense & eye movements.
🔹He was the first who described about the relationship between Accommodation and Vergence, and Accomodative Esotropia in 1826.
🔹Dr.Theodor Schwann, a German physiologist had spent four years of his time with Dr.Muller and under his guidance and support in his experimental work, he discovered Schwann cells.
🔹Muller also encouraged the aspiring physiologists like Charles Bell and Magendie on their experimental work. Muller confirmed their work, which made them to introduce "Bell-Magendie Law."
🔹His eponyms...
🔅 Muller duct- also called para mesonephric duct
🔅 Muller tubercle- first evidence of embryonic uterus and vagina
🔅 Muller Maneuver- reverse of valsalva maneuver
🔅 Muller's law- each type of specific nerve ending gives rise to its own specific sensation
🔹Additionally, he had authored two-volume book called "Elements of Physiology" which was published in 1837 and 1840. It was being a leading textbook of physiology in 19th century.
🔹Consequently, Dr. Muller was considered as the Father of German Physiology and as a teacher he inspired a generation of researchers like Hermann von Helmholtz, who invented Ophthalmoscope and Rudolf Virchow, an eminent pathologist.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Greatest Experimental Physiologist of 19th century
Dr.Johannes Peter Muller 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 1⃣4⃣
Dr.Johannes Peter Muller
July 14, 1801 - April 28, 1858
💠German Physiologist
His contributions.....
🔹Muller was born as the son of shoemaker. He was very talented at his young age and he made his own translation of Aristotle.
🔹Then he studied medicine at the University of Bonn, Germany in 1819. After his studies, he started working as a lecturer in Physiology and Comparative anatomy at University of Bonn.
🔹Later he became a Professor of anatomy and physiology in University of Berlin, Germany.
🔹Muller contributed himself in numerous Domains of physiology, especially in Speech, voice and hearing as well as in Physical and chemical properties of blood, chyle and lymph.
🔹Moreover, he did the comparative physiology of human and animal visual sense & eye movements.
🔹He was the first who described about the relationship between Accommodation and Vergence, and Accomodative Esotropia in 1826.
🔹Dr.Theodor Schwann, a German physiologist had spent four years of his time with Dr.Muller and under his guidance and support in his experimental work, he discovered Schwann cells.
🔹Muller also encouraged the aspiring physiologists like Charles Bell and Magendie on their experimental work. Muller confirmed their work, which made them to introduce "Bell-Magendie Law."
🔹His eponyms...
🔅 Muller duct- also called para mesonephric duct
🔅 Muller tubercle- first evidence of embryonic uterus and vagina
🔅 Muller Maneuver- reverse of valsalva maneuver
🔅 Muller's law- each type of specific nerve ending gives rise to its own specific sensation
🔹Additionally, he had authored two-volume book called "Elements of Physiology" which was published in 1837 and 1840. It was being a leading textbook of physiology in 19th century.
🔹Consequently, Dr. Muller was considered as the Father of German Physiology and as a teacher he inspired a generation of researchers like Hermann von Helmholtz, who invented Ophthalmoscope and Rudolf Virchow, an eminent pathologist.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Greatest Experimental Physiologist of 19th century
Dr.Johannes Peter Muller 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-15 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 1⃣5⃣
Dr.Brenda Milner
July 15, 1918
💠British-Canadian Neuroscientist
💠Founder of Neuropsychology
Her contributions.....
🔸Milner was born to a musically talented family. She completed her degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge and did her Ph.D at McGill University in 1952.
🔸Then she started her career at Montreal Neurological Institute. Milner had contributed incredible discoveries in the field of neuropsychology.
🔸In 1954, she published her experimental work on "Intellectual function of the temporal lobe".
🔸Additionally, she published about the "Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions" in 1957.
🔸Thereby Milner established that anterior hippocampus & hippocampal gyrus governs the human brain's normal memory function.
🔸For nearly a three decades, she studied with a patient called "HM", who had bilateral medial temporal lobe, amygdala & hippocampus removed for cure of his intractable epilepsy.
🔸Dr. Milner had noticed that HM could not creat new memories, as whenever he saw her, he thought it was the first time (lost his ability to convert short-term memory into long-term memory).
🔸With this experimentation, Milner discovered that there are two systems in the brain responsible for storing memories- Explicit or Declarative memory & Implicit or Procedural memory.
🔸Consequently, she had concluded that hippocampus is responsible for Explicit memory, which stores names, faces and new experiences, whereas the implicit memory do not involve hippocampus and are encoded in cerebellum, putamen, caudate nucleus and the motor cortex, all of which are involved in motor skills like driving or playing the piano.
🔸This study was considered as the Greatest Milestones in the History of Neuroscience.
🔸Furthermore, she made contributions for the understanding of the role of frontal lobes in memory processing in the area of organizing information.
🔸Moreover, her passion in the field of Neuro psychology made her to publish more than 100 scientific papers and to hold more than 20 honorary degrees.
🔸Dr. Milner was recognized as one of the greatest neuroscientist of 20th century. Finally, she declared that "Curiosity Must Keep Us Going".
............................................................
A Scientist Who Unlocks the Mysteries of Memory
Dr. Brenda Milner🙏🏼 Celebrating her 102nd birthday today💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 1⃣5⃣
Dr.Brenda Milner
July 15, 1918
💠British-Canadian Neuroscientist
💠Founder of Neuropsychology
Her contributions.....
🔸Milner was born to a musically talented family. She completed her degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge and did her Ph.D at McGill University in 1952.
🔸Then she started her career at Montreal Neurological Institute. Milner had contributed incredible discoveries in the field of neuropsychology.
🔸In 1954, she published her experimental work on "Intellectual function of the temporal lobe".
🔸Additionally, she published about the "Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions" in 1957.
🔸Thereby Milner established that anterior hippocampus & hippocampal gyrus governs the human brain's normal memory function.
🔸For nearly a three decades, she studied with a patient called "HM", who had bilateral medial temporal lobe, amygdala & hippocampus removed for cure of his intractable epilepsy.
🔸Dr. Milner had noticed that HM could not creat new memories, as whenever he saw her, he thought it was the first time (lost his ability to convert short-term memory into long-term memory).
🔸With this experimentation, Milner discovered that there are two systems in the brain responsible for storing memories- Explicit or Declarative memory & Implicit or Procedural memory.
🔸Consequently, she had concluded that hippocampus is responsible for Explicit memory, which stores names, faces and new experiences, whereas the implicit memory do not involve hippocampus and are encoded in cerebellum, putamen, caudate nucleus and the motor cortex, all of which are involved in motor skills like driving or playing the piano.
🔸This study was considered as the Greatest Milestones in the History of Neuroscience.
🔸Furthermore, she made contributions for the understanding of the role of frontal lobes in memory processing in the area of organizing information.
🔸Moreover, her passion in the field of Neuro psychology made her to publish more than 100 scientific papers and to hold more than 20 honorary degrees.
🔸Dr. Milner was recognized as one of the greatest neuroscientist of 20th century. Finally, she declared that "Curiosity Must Keep Us Going".
............................................................
A Scientist Who Unlocks the Mysteries of Memory
Dr. Brenda Milner🙏🏼 Celebrating her 102nd birthday today💐
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-16 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 1⃣6⃣
Dr.Bela Schick
July 16,1877 - Dec 6, 1967
💠Hungerian born -American Pediatrician
💠Founder of Allergology
His contributions...
🔹Schick had completed his medical studies at Karl France University, Austria in 1900.
🔹After his studies, he was working with his mentor Dr.Theodor Escherich, who discovered Escherichia coli.
🔹He also worked with Dr.Clemmens Von Pirquet in University of Childrens clinic at Vienna, which made Dr.Schick a distinguished Professor of childhood diseases.
🔹At the age of 36 years, Schick had developed one of the important discoveries of 20th century, which was the well-known Intradermal Schick test. It's a test for susceptibility of diptheria and ultimately led to the eradication of the diptheria.
🔹Joined with Von Pirquet proposed Serum Sickness, which describes a strange systemic symptoms suffered after a week by diptheria or tetanus antitoxin horse serum.
🔹Subsequently, they both coined the term as Allergy, which was derived from Greek word allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "reaction" to describe the clinical reaction.
🔹He further contributed himself on scarlet fever, tuberculosis and infantile nutrition.
🔹In the year 1932, he penned his observations related to child care and published a popular guide called Child Care Today, which advises the children to raise against corporal punishment.
🔹Additionally, he published The care of your child from Infancy to Six published in 1949 & Serum sickness in 1951.
🔹Finally, he concluded as " The World is Kept Alive by the Breath of Children".
A Day to Commemorate...
A Pediatrician Who Contributed to the Health of the Children of the World
Dr. Bela Schick 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 1⃣6⃣
Dr.Bela Schick
July 16,1877 - Dec 6, 1967
💠Hungerian born -American Pediatrician
💠Founder of Allergology
His contributions...
🔹Schick had completed his medical studies at Karl France University, Austria in 1900.
🔹After his studies, he was working with his mentor Dr.Theodor Escherich, who discovered Escherichia coli.
🔹He also worked with Dr.Clemmens Von Pirquet in University of Childrens clinic at Vienna, which made Dr.Schick a distinguished Professor of childhood diseases.
🔹At the age of 36 years, Schick had developed one of the important discoveries of 20th century, which was the well-known Intradermal Schick test. It's a test for susceptibility of diptheria and ultimately led to the eradication of the diptheria.
🔹Joined with Von Pirquet proposed Serum Sickness, which describes a strange systemic symptoms suffered after a week by diptheria or tetanus antitoxin horse serum.
🔹Subsequently, they both coined the term as Allergy, which was derived from Greek word allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "reaction" to describe the clinical reaction.
🔹He further contributed himself on scarlet fever, tuberculosis and infantile nutrition.
🔹In the year 1932, he penned his observations related to child care and published a popular guide called Child Care Today, which advises the children to raise against corporal punishment.
🔹Additionally, he published The care of your child from Infancy to Six published in 1949 & Serum sickness in 1951.
🔹Finally, he concluded as " The World is Kept Alive by the Breath of Children".
A Day to Commemorate...
A Pediatrician Who Contributed to the Health of the Children of the World
Dr. Bela Schick 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-17 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 1⃣7⃣
Prof. Josef Hyrtl
Dec 7, 1810 - July 17, 1894
💠Austrian Anatomist
His contributions.....
🔸Hyrtl had completed his medical studies at Vienna in 1831. While he was being a student, he got appointed as a Demonstrator of Anatomy.
🔸He was appreciated for his extraordinary teaching. So he got attracted by students as well as professors. At the young age of 26 years, he became a Professor of Anatomy in the University of Prague, Czech Republic.
🔸Hyrtl was a skilled anatomist, found a special technique for anatomical studies called as "Injection & Corrosion Method".
🔸Subsequently, he used the method by injecting coloured substances into the blood vessels and corroding away the organic tissues by acids. The remaining was considered as "Three-Dimensional Vessel Networks".
🔸By using this method, he demonstrated the wonderful preparation of Vascular system of lung, liver, kidney and intestine.
🔸Moreover, Hyrtl was well-known for his collections of skulls 💀. He collected the skulls of different races for the purpose of Comparative Anatomy. The intention of his collections was to prove that cranial anatomy varied widely in races.
🔸His collection of 139 Human Skulls have exhibited in The Mutter Museum, Philadelphia. There each skull have mounted with comments about the persons age, place of origin and cause of death.
🔸 Finally, his classical work was published as A Handbook of Topographic Anatomy in 1860.
🔸During his days, he was being a competent teacher and writer. Thereby, he had created a significant impact in studying anatomy in medical school.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Magnificent Anatomist of 19th Century
Dr. Josef Hyrtl 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 1⃣7⃣
Prof. Josef Hyrtl
Dec 7, 1810 - July 17, 1894
💠Austrian Anatomist
His contributions.....
🔸Hyrtl had completed his medical studies at Vienna in 1831. While he was being a student, he got appointed as a Demonstrator of Anatomy.
🔸He was appreciated for his extraordinary teaching. So he got attracted by students as well as professors. At the young age of 26 years, he became a Professor of Anatomy in the University of Prague, Czech Republic.
🔸Hyrtl was a skilled anatomist, found a special technique for anatomical studies called as "Injection & Corrosion Method".
🔸Subsequently, he used the method by injecting coloured substances into the blood vessels and corroding away the organic tissues by acids. The remaining was considered as "Three-Dimensional Vessel Networks".
🔸By using this method, he demonstrated the wonderful preparation of Vascular system of lung, liver, kidney and intestine.
🔸Moreover, Hyrtl was well-known for his collections of skulls 💀. He collected the skulls of different races for the purpose of Comparative Anatomy. The intention of his collections was to prove that cranial anatomy varied widely in races.
🔸His collection of 139 Human Skulls have exhibited in The Mutter Museum, Philadelphia. There each skull have mounted with comments about the persons age, place of origin and cause of death.
🔸 Finally, his classical work was published as A Handbook of Topographic Anatomy in 1860.
🔸During his days, he was being a competent teacher and writer. Thereby, he had created a significant impact in studying anatomy in medical school.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Magnificent Anatomist of 19th Century
Dr. Josef Hyrtl 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-18 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 1⃣8⃣
Dr.Kadambini Ganguly
July 18, 1862 - Oct 3, 1923
💠🇮🇳Indian Physician🇮🇳
Her contributions....
🔹During the childhood, Kadambini was highly inspired by her father, who was a headmaster by profession and best known as a proponent of Brahmo Samaj. Also, he was a founder of Mahila Samiti, India's First Women's Organisation established in 1863.
🔹In 1882, she graduated as one of the first two women graduates of the country and in the entire British empire. She completed her Bachelor Degree in Arts from the University of Calcutta.
🔹Then she got married to Dwaraknath Ganguly, who was a prominent Brahmo samaj leader.
🔹He kept encouraging her to study medicine, inspite of her name being listed in the merit list in Calcutta Medical College she was not allowed to study medicine because there was no history of Indian women studying there.
🔹After a great struggle, she completed her medical studies and recognized as one of the First Indian Woman Physician eligible to practice Western Medicine along with Dr.Anandibai Joshi (she did her medicine at the same time in United States).
🔹Kadambini got her GBMC (Graduate of Bengal Medical College) in 1886.
🔹In 1892, she went to United Kingdom as she was the First Asian Women approved to be trained in European continent. Subsequently, she did her LRCP (Edinburgh), LRCS (Glasgow) & GFPS (Dublin).
🔹After returning India, she began her private practice. Being a radical lady of that era, she played a main role in various progressive movements.
🔹Apart from that, she worked together with her husband for female emancipation and in many social activities. She was instrumental to improve the working conditions of female in coal mines in Eastern India.
🔹She also had involved herself in Indian Freedom Movement and she was the first women delegate to address the Indian National Congress.
🔹Dr. Kadambini was one of the earliest working women of India, who played a meticulous role in both profession and at home. She was too shattered about all the sterotypical notions of women and paved the new way for the modern generation.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Champion of Women's Education & Right's
🇮🇳 Dr. Kadambini Ganguly🇮🇳🙏🏼
................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 1⃣8⃣
Dr.Kadambini Ganguly
July 18, 1862 - Oct 3, 1923
💠🇮🇳Indian Physician🇮🇳
Her contributions....
🔹During the childhood, Kadambini was highly inspired by her father, who was a headmaster by profession and best known as a proponent of Brahmo Samaj. Also, he was a founder of Mahila Samiti, India's First Women's Organisation established in 1863.
🔹In 1882, she graduated as one of the first two women graduates of the country and in the entire British empire. She completed her Bachelor Degree in Arts from the University of Calcutta.
🔹Then she got married to Dwaraknath Ganguly, who was a prominent Brahmo samaj leader.
🔹He kept encouraging her to study medicine, inspite of her name being listed in the merit list in Calcutta Medical College she was not allowed to study medicine because there was no history of Indian women studying there.
🔹After a great struggle, she completed her medical studies and recognized as one of the First Indian Woman Physician eligible to practice Western Medicine along with Dr.Anandibai Joshi (she did her medicine at the same time in United States).
🔹Kadambini got her GBMC (Graduate of Bengal Medical College) in 1886.
🔹In 1892, she went to United Kingdom as she was the First Asian Women approved to be trained in European continent. Subsequently, she did her LRCP (Edinburgh), LRCS (Glasgow) & GFPS (Dublin).
🔹After returning India, she began her private practice. Being a radical lady of that era, she played a main role in various progressive movements.
🔹Apart from that, she worked together with her husband for female emancipation and in many social activities. She was instrumental to improve the working conditions of female in coal mines in Eastern India.
🔹She also had involved herself in Indian Freedom Movement and she was the first women delegate to address the Indian National Congress.
🔹Dr. Kadambini was one of the earliest working women of India, who played a meticulous role in both profession and at home. She was too shattered about all the sterotypical notions of women and paved the new way for the modern generation.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Champion of Women's Education & Right's
🇮🇳 Dr. Kadambini Ganguly🇮🇳🙏🏼
................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-19 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 2⃣0⃣
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
July 20, 1836 - Feb 22, 1925
💠English Physician
💠Inventor of Clinical Thermometer
His contributions....
🔹Allbutt had studied medicine at St George's Hospital, London and completed his graduation at Cambridge in 1861.
🔹After his studies, he had gone to Paris to get trained. Where he got an opportunity to undergo training along with two champions Dr. Armand Trousseau (famous for his Trousseau's sign) and with Dr. Duchenne (a famous neurologist, an era of modern neurology started from him).
🔹In 1892, he got appointed as a Professor of Anatomy and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He served there all over his career.
🔹He further contributed himself for medical education especially in bedside medicine. He instructed his students to spend more time with patients in ward.
🔹Moreover, he was the first who introduced routine Clinical use of Ophthalmoscope in Britain and extended its usage beyond ocular diseases. By using fundoscopy method, he had shown numerous signs like Papilledema, optic atrophy etc.
🔹He urged the importance of temperature chart and he was the first to introduce the weighing scale and microscope🔬 for the clinical wards, which led to the evolution of medical practice.
🔹Dr. Allbutt was well-known for his protean knowledge of medicine. In 1866, he upgraded the oldest thermometer of 10-inches to new invention of 6-inches.
🔹The old thermometer consumed 20 minutes to record the temperature whereas the new one had taken 5 minutes, which is a mercury based Pocket Clinical Thermometer, called as "Dr. Clifford Allbutt's Clinical Thermometer" - A first practical device to record temperature.
🔹Furthermore, he penned eight volume book called "A System of Medicine" which was published in 1896-99. It was considered as " Doctor's Bible" and widely used as text book of medicine in Britain.
🔹Being a Renaissance man, he had written an article on "The History of Medicine" in the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1911.
🔹He also supported Sir William Osler in founding of "The History of Medicine Society" at The Royal Society of Medicine, London in 1912.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Renaissance Physician
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 2⃣0⃣
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
July 20, 1836 - Feb 22, 1925
💠English Physician
💠Inventor of Clinical Thermometer
His contributions....
🔹Allbutt had studied medicine at St George's Hospital, London and completed his graduation at Cambridge in 1861.
🔹After his studies, he had gone to Paris to get trained. Where he got an opportunity to undergo training along with two champions Dr. Armand Trousseau (famous for his Trousseau's sign) and with Dr. Duchenne (a famous neurologist, an era of modern neurology started from him).
🔹In 1892, he got appointed as a Professor of Anatomy and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He served there all over his career.
🔹He further contributed himself for medical education especially in bedside medicine. He instructed his students to spend more time with patients in ward.
🔹Moreover, he was the first who introduced routine Clinical use of Ophthalmoscope in Britain and extended its usage beyond ocular diseases. By using fundoscopy method, he had shown numerous signs like Papilledema, optic atrophy etc.
🔹He urged the importance of temperature chart and he was the first to introduce the weighing scale and microscope🔬 for the clinical wards, which led to the evolution of medical practice.
🔹Dr. Allbutt was well-known for his protean knowledge of medicine. In 1866, he upgraded the oldest thermometer of 10-inches to new invention of 6-inches.
🔹The old thermometer consumed 20 minutes to record the temperature whereas the new one had taken 5 minutes, which is a mercury based Pocket Clinical Thermometer, called as "Dr. Clifford Allbutt's Clinical Thermometer" - A first practical device to record temperature.
🔹Furthermore, he penned eight volume book called "A System of Medicine" which was published in 1896-99. It was considered as " Doctor's Bible" and widely used as text book of medicine in Britain.
🔹Being a Renaissance man, he had written an article on "The History of Medicine" in the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1911.
🔹He also supported Sir William Osler in founding of "The History of Medicine Society" at The Royal Society of Medicine, London in 1912.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Renaissance Physician
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-21 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 2⃣1⃣
Dr.George Frederick Dick
July 21, 1881 - Oct 10, 1967
💠American Physician & Bacteriologist
His contributions.....
🔸Dick had completed his medical studies in Rush Medical College of Chicago and got his MD graduation🎓 in 1905. He then travelled to Vienna and Munich to get trained in bacteriology.
🔸He was quite brilliant in his academic, which made him to become a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Rush Medical College, he served there from 1918 to 1933. He was subsequently promoted to Head of the Department of Medicine at University of Chicago.
🔸During the early 20th century, Scarlet fever was the most leading cause of death among children and also causing long-term complications like arthritis, nephritis and rheumatic heart disease.
🔸This worst scenario had burdened Dick's heart very much so he began his extensive research on Scarlet fever while he was serving as an Army doctor in First World War.
🔸After the war, he collaborated with his wife Dr. Gladys Dick and made a great breakthrough by isolating the causative organism Hemolytic streptococci by using Koch's postulate and also narrowed down the culprit as a specific toxin produced by this bacteria in 1923.
🔸In 1925, both together developed "Dick Skin Test" to determine susceptibility to scarlet fever. They did by injecting Purified Soluble Exotoxin from hemolytic streptococcus pyogenes.
🔸By using Antitoxin, they further developed Vaccine to fight against the disease.
🔸Finally, they both together honoured by various awards for their extraordinary contribution in the field of medicine.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Scientific Couple of Early 20th Century
Dr. George F. Dick
Dr. Gladys Dick🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 2⃣1⃣
Dr.George Frederick Dick
July 21, 1881 - Oct 10, 1967
💠American Physician & Bacteriologist
His contributions.....
🔸Dick had completed his medical studies in Rush Medical College of Chicago and got his MD graduation🎓 in 1905. He then travelled to Vienna and Munich to get trained in bacteriology.
🔸He was quite brilliant in his academic, which made him to become a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Rush Medical College, he served there from 1918 to 1933. He was subsequently promoted to Head of the Department of Medicine at University of Chicago.
🔸During the early 20th century, Scarlet fever was the most leading cause of death among children and also causing long-term complications like arthritis, nephritis and rheumatic heart disease.
🔸This worst scenario had burdened Dick's heart very much so he began his extensive research on Scarlet fever while he was serving as an Army doctor in First World War.
🔸After the war, he collaborated with his wife Dr. Gladys Dick and made a great breakthrough by isolating the causative organism Hemolytic streptococci by using Koch's postulate and also narrowed down the culprit as a specific toxin produced by this bacteria in 1923.
🔸In 1925, both together developed "Dick Skin Test" to determine susceptibility to scarlet fever. They did by injecting Purified Soluble Exotoxin from hemolytic streptococcus pyogenes.
🔸By using Antitoxin, they further developed Vaccine to fight against the disease.
🔸Finally, they both together honoured by various awards for their extraordinary contribution in the field of medicine.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Scientific Couple of Early 20th Century
Dr. George F. Dick
Dr. Gladys Dick🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-22 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 2⃣2⃣
Dr. Selman Waksman
July 22, 1888 - Aug 16, 1973
💠Ukrainian Born - American Microbiologist
His contributions.....
🔹Waksman had studied agriculture at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Then he had done his Doctorate in Biochemistry at the University of California in 1918. After his studies, he began his research on Soil Bacteriology.
🔹In the year 1940, he was the first who identified the soil organism Actinomyces antibioticus then isolated a new substance called "Actinomycin" and found it has both bacteriostatic & bactericidal effects.
🔹Afterwards, Waksman and his Ph.D student Albert Schatz had jointly discovered Streptomycin which was isolated from the organism "Streptomyces griseus". This was the first antibiotic found and became a greatest breakthrough in the medical field against tuberculosis.
🔹Subsequently, he discovered more than 20 New Naturally Inhibitory Substances including Neomycin.
🔹He then proposed the new term Antibiotics in 1941 for this natural growth inhibitors and earned the title " Father of Antibiotics."
🔹Consequently, he was honoured with Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his great discovery of streptomycin in 1952.
🔹He further received Japan's highest honor "The Star of the Rising Sun" by the Emperor of Japan.
🔹Finally, he established Waksman Foundation of Microbiology at Rutgers University in 1951, by using his patent royalties for the drug Streptomycin & Neomycin.
A Day to Commemorate...
The One of the Greatest Benefactors of Mankind
Dr. Selman Waksman🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 2⃣2⃣
Dr. Selman Waksman
July 22, 1888 - Aug 16, 1973
💠Ukrainian Born - American Microbiologist
His contributions.....
🔹Waksman had studied agriculture at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Then he had done his Doctorate in Biochemistry at the University of California in 1918. After his studies, he began his research on Soil Bacteriology.
🔹In the year 1940, he was the first who identified the soil organism Actinomyces antibioticus then isolated a new substance called "Actinomycin" and found it has both bacteriostatic & bactericidal effects.
🔹Afterwards, Waksman and his Ph.D student Albert Schatz had jointly discovered Streptomycin which was isolated from the organism "Streptomyces griseus". This was the first antibiotic found and became a greatest breakthrough in the medical field against tuberculosis.
🔹Subsequently, he discovered more than 20 New Naturally Inhibitory Substances including Neomycin.
🔹He then proposed the new term Antibiotics in 1941 for this natural growth inhibitors and earned the title " Father of Antibiotics."
🔹Consequently, he was honoured with Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his great discovery of streptomycin in 1952.
🔹He further received Japan's highest honor "The Star of the Rising Sun" by the Emperor of Japan.
🔹Finally, he established Waksman Foundation of Microbiology at Rutgers University in 1951, by using his patent royalties for the drug Streptomycin & Neomycin.
A Day to Commemorate...
The One of the Greatest Benefactors of Mankind
Dr. Selman Waksman🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-23 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 2⃣3⃣
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson
July 23, 1828 - June 13, 1913
💠English Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Hutchinson studied medicine under the guidance of his mentor Sir James Paget at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He further studied Ophthalmology at Moorfield's Hospital and became a member of Royal College of Surgeons in 1850.
🔸Dr. Hutchinson showed his interest in various specialities which led him to a glittering career.
🔸During his career, he was recognized as a leading authority on ophthalmology, dermatology, neurology and in particular syphilis.
🔸His committed contribution in the field of medicine, made him to lead various positions as President of Hunterian society, the pathological society, the ophthalmological society, the neurological society and the college of surgeons.
🔸Moreover, he was a great teacher and admirable speaker, he attracted larger number of students by his demonstrations.
🔸He was the founder of museum called "The Hutchinson Educational Museum" established at Haslemere, England in 1888 (Still exists today). Which displays thousands of his collection of specimens and artefacts on geology, shells, birds and animals.
🔸His eponyms....
🔅Hutchinson's angina
🔅Hutchinson's sign in ophthalmic herpes zoster
🔅Hutchinson's facies- Facial appearance of drooping of eyelids & external ophthalmoplegia in neurosyphilis
🔅Hutchinson's melanotic freckle now known as melanoma in situ
🔅Hutchinson's melanotic disease
🔅Hutchinson's prurigo
🔅Hutchinson's teeth in congenital syphilis
🔅Hutchinson's triad- Interstitial keratitis, malformed teeth & eighth nerve deafness
🔅Hutchinson's disease now known as sarcoidosis
🔅Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome
(He was the first to describe progeria in 1886)
🔸Additionally, he was a prolific writer throughout his life. He had written Ten-volume📚 Archives of Surgery from 1885 to 1899.
🔸He wished his Epitaph to be "A Man of Hope & Forward-Looking Mind".
🔸After his life, his collection of clinical illustrations and case reports was acquired by the Johns Hopkins Medical School through Sir William Osler. Which comprising more than 5,000 illustrates of whole of medicine and surgery.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Astute Clinical Observer
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 2⃣3⃣
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson
July 23, 1828 - June 13, 1913
💠English Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Hutchinson studied medicine under the guidance of his mentor Sir James Paget at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He further studied Ophthalmology at Moorfield's Hospital and became a member of Royal College of Surgeons in 1850.
🔸Dr. Hutchinson showed his interest in various specialities which led him to a glittering career.
🔸During his career, he was recognized as a leading authority on ophthalmology, dermatology, neurology and in particular syphilis.
🔸His committed contribution in the field of medicine, made him to lead various positions as President of Hunterian society, the pathological society, the ophthalmological society, the neurological society and the college of surgeons.
🔸Moreover, he was a great teacher and admirable speaker, he attracted larger number of students by his demonstrations.
🔸He was the founder of museum called "The Hutchinson Educational Museum" established at Haslemere, England in 1888 (Still exists today). Which displays thousands of his collection of specimens and artefacts on geology, shells, birds and animals.
🔸His eponyms....
🔅Hutchinson's angina
🔅Hutchinson's sign in ophthalmic herpes zoster
🔅Hutchinson's facies- Facial appearance of drooping of eyelids & external ophthalmoplegia in neurosyphilis
🔅Hutchinson's melanotic freckle now known as melanoma in situ
🔅Hutchinson's melanotic disease
🔅Hutchinson's prurigo
🔅Hutchinson's teeth in congenital syphilis
🔅Hutchinson's triad- Interstitial keratitis, malformed teeth & eighth nerve deafness
🔅Hutchinson's disease now known as sarcoidosis
🔅Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome
(He was the first to describe progeria in 1886)
🔸Additionally, he was a prolific writer throughout his life. He had written Ten-volume📚 Archives of Surgery from 1885 to 1899.
🔸He wished his Epitaph to be "A Man of Hope & Forward-Looking Mind".
🔸After his life, his collection of clinical illustrations and case reports was acquired by the Johns Hopkins Medical School through Sir William Osler. Which comprising more than 5,000 illustrates of whole of medicine and surgery.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Astute Clinical Observer
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE JULY-24 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
Indians Contribution in Medicine
JULY 2⃣4️⃣
SIDDHA MEDICINE
💠Ancient Indian Medicine
🔹The Siddha medicine is also called as Siddha Vaidya, originated in ancient Tamil Nadu, South India.
🔹Siddha is the foremost of all other medical systems in the world. In fact, it can be traced back between B.C 10,000 to B.C 4,000.
🔹Moreover, the Siddha is a Traditional Treatment System generated from Tamil culture. Palm leaf manuscripts says that the Siddha system was firstly described by Lord Shiva to his wife Lord Parvati.
🔹Then, Lord Parvati explained all this knowledge to her son Lord Muruga and he taught all this knowledge to his disciple Sage Agasthya. Agasthya further taught to siddhars and they spread this knowledge to human beings.
🔹Actually, the Siddhars who got 8 supernatural power laid the foundation of this traditional medicine.
🔹Among 18 siddhars in that period , Sage Agasthyar is considered as the Father of Siddha Medicine.
🔹The concept behind the Siddha is the Healthy soul can only be developed through a healthy body. Hence, they developed the practices like periodic fasting and meditation. Indeed, Lifestyle plays a significant role in health and in curing illness.
🔹They further developed the drugs either from thavaram (herbal product) or thandu (inorganic substances) or jangamam (animal products).
🔹Furthermore, the Naadi (in Tamil), or Radial artery pulse reading method was developed by erstwhile Siddha practitioners.
🔹In order to recognize the Gift of Siddha Medicine, the Government of Tamilnadu has announced April 14th (Tamil New Year) as World Siddha Day.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Ancient Indian Medicine
Siddha Medicine🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Indians Contribution in Medicine
JULY 2⃣4️⃣
SIDDHA MEDICINE
💠Ancient Indian Medicine
🔹The Siddha medicine is also called as Siddha Vaidya, originated in ancient Tamil Nadu, South India.
🔹Siddha is the foremost of all other medical systems in the world. In fact, it can be traced back between B.C 10,000 to B.C 4,000.
🔹Moreover, the Siddha is a Traditional Treatment System generated from Tamil culture. Palm leaf manuscripts says that the Siddha system was firstly described by Lord Shiva to his wife Lord Parvati.
🔹Then, Lord Parvati explained all this knowledge to her son Lord Muruga and he taught all this knowledge to his disciple Sage Agasthya. Agasthya further taught to siddhars and they spread this knowledge to human beings.
🔹Actually, the Siddhars who got 8 supernatural power laid the foundation of this traditional medicine.
🔹Among 18 siddhars in that period , Sage Agasthyar is considered as the Father of Siddha Medicine.
🔹The concept behind the Siddha is the Healthy soul can only be developed through a healthy body. Hence, they developed the practices like periodic fasting and meditation. Indeed, Lifestyle plays a significant role in health and in curing illness.
🔹They further developed the drugs either from thavaram (herbal product) or thandu (inorganic substances) or jangamam (animal products).
🔹Furthermore, the Naadi (in Tamil), or Radial artery pulse reading method was developed by erstwhile Siddha practitioners.
🔹In order to recognize the Gift of Siddha Medicine, the Government of Tamilnadu has announced April 14th (Tamil New Year) as World Siddha Day.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Ancient Indian Medicine
Siddha Medicine🙏🏼
............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
JULY 2⃣5⃣
Dominique Jean Larrey
July 8, 1766 - July 25, 1842
💠French Surgeon
💠Founder of Military Surgery & Trauma Care
His contributions....
🔸Larrey was born as a son of shoemaker. Unfortunately, he lost his family & became orphaned at his young age of 13 years.
🔸Then Larrey was apprenticed to his uncle, who was the chief surgeon. Later, he studied surgery in paris.
🔸After his medical studies, Larrey joined as an army surgeon in French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
🔸Larrey spent around 18 years with Napoleon and in his 25 campaigns and 60 battles. Undoubtedly, Napoleon achieved enormous victories because of the strong medical service provided in the battle by Larrey.
In the battlefield,
🔸Larrey was the first to identify contagiousness of trachoma in 1802
🔸First to describe the trench foot in 1812
🔸He was also the first to introduce Flying Ambulance, a horse drawn cart with medical team, medical equipments and trained crew of drivers to treat the wounded soldiers in the field and to evacuate them early.
🔸The word "Ambulance" comes from the French word "Ambulance", which means movement.
🔸Larrey was highly appreciated for his best care on the wounded soldiers regardless of their nation in battlefield.
🔸He further coined and introduced the new concept called Triage. By this concept, he insisted to give first attention to the dangerously injured soldiers.
🔸Moreover, he strongly believed that early and fast amputations of injured legs would save the life. Hence he performed more than 200 amputations with in 24 hours. He was also the first who described about the therapeutic effects of Maggots on open wounds.
🔸Additionally, he did the first successful pericardiocentesis for cardiac tamponade secondary to penetrating injury in 1829 and also did draining procedures for empyema and hemothorax.
🔸His devoted work was greatly admired and honored by Napolean as "The worthiest man he had ever met."
🔸Furthermore, his work revolutionized the emergency care. Thereby the International Red Cross and Geneva conventions were created for caring the wounded soldiers.
A Day to Commemorate...
The First Modern Military Surgeon
Dominique Jean Larrey 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 2⃣5⃣
Dominique Jean Larrey
July 8, 1766 - July 25, 1842
💠French Surgeon
💠Founder of Military Surgery & Trauma Care
His contributions....
🔸Larrey was born as a son of shoemaker. Unfortunately, he lost his family & became orphaned at his young age of 13 years.
🔸Then Larrey was apprenticed to his uncle, who was the chief surgeon. Later, he studied surgery in paris.
🔸After his medical studies, Larrey joined as an army surgeon in French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte.
🔸Larrey spent around 18 years with Napoleon and in his 25 campaigns and 60 battles. Undoubtedly, Napoleon achieved enormous victories because of the strong medical service provided in the battle by Larrey.
In the battlefield,
🔸Larrey was the first to identify contagiousness of trachoma in 1802
🔸First to describe the trench foot in 1812
🔸He was also the first to introduce Flying Ambulance, a horse drawn cart with medical team, medical equipments and trained crew of drivers to treat the wounded soldiers in the field and to evacuate them early.
🔸The word "Ambulance" comes from the French word "Ambulance", which means movement.
🔸Larrey was highly appreciated for his best care on the wounded soldiers regardless of their nation in battlefield.
🔸He further coined and introduced the new concept called Triage. By this concept, he insisted to give first attention to the dangerously injured soldiers.
🔸Moreover, he strongly believed that early and fast amputations of injured legs would save the life. Hence he performed more than 200 amputations with in 24 hours. He was also the first who described about the therapeutic effects of Maggots on open wounds.
🔸Additionally, he did the first successful pericardiocentesis for cardiac tamponade secondary to penetrating injury in 1829 and also did draining procedures for empyema and hemothorax.
🔸His devoted work was greatly admired and honored by Napolean as "The worthiest man he had ever met."
🔸Furthermore, his work revolutionized the emergency care. Thereby the International Red Cross and Geneva conventions were created for caring the wounded soldiers.
A Day to Commemorate...
The First Modern Military Surgeon
Dominique Jean Larrey 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
JULY 2⃣7⃣
Dr. Emil Theodar Kocher
Aug 25, 1841 - July 27, 1917
💠Swiss Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Kocher studied medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland and received his graduation in 1865.
🔸After completion of his studies, he visited to various leading surgical clinics in Berlin, London, Paris and Vienna in order to gain the surgical knowledge. Also, he was being a student of Prof. Theodor Billroth.
🔸In 1872, Dr. Kocher became a Professor of Clinical Surgery at Bern and served there for around 45 years until his retirement.
🔸He did his experimental work on thyroid and subsequently, improved the thyroid surgery by his anatomical knowledge, precised operating technique and the aseptic principles defined by Sir Joseph Lister.
🔸In the year 1876, Dr. Kocher became the first surgeon to excise the thyroid for Goitre.
🔸He then declared the characteristic hypothyroid features in patients after total thyroidectomy during 1883 and named the symptoms of hypothyroidism as Cachexia Strumipriva. Ultimately, he concluded that total thyroidectomy was not indicated in benign diseases.
🔸Furthermore, Dr. Kocher while working with Dr. Harvey Cushings performed the decompressive surgery for cushing's reflex.
🔸In addition, Dr. Kocher studied and published many scientific papers on hernia, traumatic epilepsy, brain damage and trepanation.
🔸He was also recognized as a Man of Discoveries. His list of eponyms are...
🔅 Kocher's arced incision - Oblique incision for opening the knee joint
🔅 Kocher's incision I - Subcostal incision for cholecystectomy
🔅 Kocher's incision II - Transverse incision in the neck for thyroidectomy
🔅 Kocher's method I - Fixation of the fundus uteri to the abdominal wall
🔅 Kocher's method II - Invagination method for radical operation of inguinal hernia
🔅 Kocher's method III - Reduction method for shoulder dislocation
🔅 Kocherisation- Operative technique in opening the duodenum to expose the ampulla of the CBD
🔅 Kocher's reflex - Contraction of abdominal muscles following moderate compression of the testicle
🔅 Kocher's sign- Eye sign in Basedow - Graves disease
🔅 Kocher's syndrome- Splenomegaly with or without lymphocytosis and lymphadenopathy in thyrotoxicosis
🔅 Kocher-Debre-Semelaigne syndrome
🔅 Kocher’s craniometer
🔅 Kocher’s surgical clamp
🔅 Kocher's tweezers
🔅 Kocher’s forceps
🔅 Kocher’s probe
🔸In the year 1912, Dr. Kocher had performed around 7,000 thyroid surgeries and also reduced the thyroid surgery related mortality from 18 percent to less than 0.5 percent.
🔸Moreover, he published his experience as The Text Book of Operative Surgery in 1892.
🔸Consequently, he was honoured for his enormous contribution in thyroidology with Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine in 1909. Therefore, he was the first Swiss citizen and the First Surgeon, who received the Nobel Prize. He further donated his prize amount to Bern Institution.
🔸Finally, he became a celebrated pioneer of taught around 10,000 medical students and became a world leader in the surgical revolution of the late nineteenth century.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Outstanding and Immortal Surgeon
Dr. Emil Theodor Kocher 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
JULY 2⃣7⃣
Dr. Emil Theodar Kocher
Aug 25, 1841 - July 27, 1917
💠Swiss Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Kocher studied medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland and received his graduation in 1865.
🔸After completion of his studies, he visited to various leading surgical clinics in Berlin, London, Paris and Vienna in order to gain the surgical knowledge. Also, he was being a student of Prof. Theodor Billroth.
🔸In 1872, Dr. Kocher became a Professor of Clinical Surgery at Bern and served there for around 45 years until his retirement.
🔸He did his experimental work on thyroid and subsequently, improved the thyroid surgery by his anatomical knowledge, precised operating technique and the aseptic principles defined by Sir Joseph Lister.
🔸In the year 1876, Dr. Kocher became the first surgeon to excise the thyroid for Goitre.
🔸He then declared the characteristic hypothyroid features in patients after total thyroidectomy during 1883 and named the symptoms of hypothyroidism as Cachexia Strumipriva. Ultimately, he concluded that total thyroidectomy was not indicated in benign diseases.
🔸Furthermore, Dr. Kocher while working with Dr. Harvey Cushings performed the decompressive surgery for cushing's reflex.
🔸In addition, Dr. Kocher studied and published many scientific papers on hernia, traumatic epilepsy, brain damage and trepanation.
🔸He was also recognized as a Man of Discoveries. His list of eponyms are...
🔅 Kocher's arced incision - Oblique incision for opening the knee joint
🔅 Kocher's incision I - Subcostal incision for cholecystectomy
🔅 Kocher's incision II - Transverse incision in the neck for thyroidectomy
🔅 Kocher's method I - Fixation of the fundus uteri to the abdominal wall
🔅 Kocher's method II - Invagination method for radical operation of inguinal hernia
🔅 Kocher's method III - Reduction method for shoulder dislocation
🔅 Kocherisation- Operative technique in opening the duodenum to expose the ampulla of the CBD
🔅 Kocher's reflex - Contraction of abdominal muscles following moderate compression of the testicle
🔅 Kocher's sign- Eye sign in Basedow - Graves disease
🔅 Kocher's syndrome- Splenomegaly with or without lymphocytosis and lymphadenopathy in thyrotoxicosis
🔅 Kocher-Debre-Semelaigne syndrome
🔅 Kocher’s craniometer
🔅 Kocher’s surgical clamp
🔅 Kocher's tweezers
🔅 Kocher’s forceps
🔅 Kocher’s probe
🔸In the year 1912, Dr. Kocher had performed around 7,000 thyroid surgeries and also reduced the thyroid surgery related mortality from 18 percent to less than 0.5 percent.
🔸Moreover, he published his experience as The Text Book of Operative Surgery in 1892.
🔸Consequently, he was honoured for his enormous contribution in thyroidology with Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine in 1909. Therefore, he was the first Swiss citizen and the First Surgeon, who received the Nobel Prize. He further donated his prize amount to Bern Institution.
🔸Finally, he became a celebrated pioneer of taught around 10,000 medical students and became a world leader in the surgical revolution of the late nineteenth century.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Outstanding and Immortal Surgeon
Dr. Emil Theodor Kocher 🙏🏼
.............................................................
⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
July 2⃣9⃣
Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen
July 29,1841- Feb 12, 1912
💠Norwegian Physician
His contributions...
🔸Hansen had studied medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway and then received his graduation in 1866.
🔸After his studies, he returned to his hometown, Bergen. At that time, Bergen was severely fighting against leprosy and was acting as a main researching center and with three leprosy hospitals.
🔸During his period, leprosy was believed as a hereditary disease or a curse given by God so lepers must suffer for their sins. Whereas, Dr. Hansen was very keen in researching and dedicated his whole life to research on leprosy.
🔸 In 1869, Dr. Hansen published his first investigation on Pathological changes in lymphoid tissue and applied the term Infectious substances seen in lymph nodes of lepers.
🔸But his work was primitive and furthermore his poor equipment complicated the work. Therefore, he travelled to Vienna for advanced training and histopathological studies, which enabled him to strengthen his research technique.
🔸Dr. Hansen sat continuously for days looking at the stained tissue slides through the microscope🔬.
🔸At his age of 32 in the year 1873, he successfuly identified the rod shaped bacilli inside the cell in leprous skin nodules and then he published his historic work. It was the second specific disease causing organism to be discovered (first was Anthrax bacilli by Dr. Koch).
🔸Also, he was the first investigator who suggested that microorganism could cause human diseases. But he was been criticized for his work.
🔸In 1880, he declared the name Bacillus Leprae to the causative organism.
🔸Moreover, Dr. Hansen had given the first systematic scientific work on leprosy of the eye and published a book called "The Leprosy Disease of the Eye."
🔸His in-depth investigations & experiences made him became a Physician-in-Chief for all lepers in Norway. According to his amended act 1885, ordered authorities to allow lepers to live in Precautionary isolation away from the unaffected society which led to the quick reduction in burden of leprosy.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Eminent Scientist of 19th Century
Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen🙏🏼
...............................................
⚜Dr.M.Gowri sankar.MD
Coimbatore
July 2⃣9⃣
Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen
July 29,1841- Feb 12, 1912
💠Norwegian Physician
His contributions...
🔸Hansen had studied medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway and then received his graduation in 1866.
🔸After his studies, he returned to his hometown, Bergen. At that time, Bergen was severely fighting against leprosy and was acting as a main researching center and with three leprosy hospitals.
🔸During his period, leprosy was believed as a hereditary disease or a curse given by God so lepers must suffer for their sins. Whereas, Dr. Hansen was very keen in researching and dedicated his whole life to research on leprosy.
🔸 In 1869, Dr. Hansen published his first investigation on Pathological changes in lymphoid tissue and applied the term Infectious substances seen in lymph nodes of lepers.
🔸But his work was primitive and furthermore his poor equipment complicated the work. Therefore, he travelled to Vienna for advanced training and histopathological studies, which enabled him to strengthen his research technique.
🔸Dr. Hansen sat continuously for days looking at the stained tissue slides through the microscope🔬.
🔸At his age of 32 in the year 1873, he successfuly identified the rod shaped bacilli inside the cell in leprous skin nodules and then he published his historic work. It was the second specific disease causing organism to be discovered (first was Anthrax bacilli by Dr. Koch).
🔸Also, he was the first investigator who suggested that microorganism could cause human diseases. But he was been criticized for his work.
🔸In 1880, he declared the name Bacillus Leprae to the causative organism.
🔸Moreover, Dr. Hansen had given the first systematic scientific work on leprosy of the eye and published a book called "The Leprosy Disease of the Eye."
🔸His in-depth investigations & experiences made him became a Physician-in-Chief for all lepers in Norway. According to his amended act 1885, ordered authorities to allow lepers to live in Precautionary isolation away from the unaffected society which led to the quick reduction in burden of leprosy.
A Day to Commemorate....
An Eminent Scientist of 19th Century
Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen🙏🏼
...............................................
⚜Dr.M.Gowri sankar.MD
Coimbatore
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
Indians Contribution in Medicine
JULY 3⃣0⃣
Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy
July 30, 1886 - July 22, 1968
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician 🇮🇳
💠Founder of Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai
Her contributions....
🔹Muthulakshmi was born in a small town called Pudukkottai in Tamilnadu.
🔹Since her father was a principal of college, she was encouraged for school studies. In fact, she was the first girl from Pudukkottai got admitted to high school.
🔹Afterthat, her mother forced into marriage at very young age. But she strongly rebelled against the decision and made her understood that education is most important for girls.
🔹With the support of her family, she successfully enrolled as a First Woman Medical Student in Madras Medical College.
🔹She was India’s first woman medical graduate in 1912. Also, she received a Gold Medal for her academic excellence.
🔹During her college days, she was very intimate with Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant, thereby her philosophy & future was greatly influenced.
🔹After completing her higher studies in England, she began the Women's India Association in 1918. Subsequently, she became the First Woman Legislator in British India.
🔹She was also the first women chairperson of the State Social Welfare Board. By that, she did many social reforms and worked hard for the welfare of the children, women and gender equality.
🔹Thereupon, she started working towards the upliftment of women by fighting against devadasi system and abolished the system as well. She also raised her voice to change the marriage age of girls, women's rights to claim property and freedom of choice in education and career.
🔹She also founded schools and the first home (AVVAI HOME) for destitute women and orphan children at chennai in 1930, which continue it's service till today.
🔹Unfortunately, her sister died of cancer. This painful experience and agony made her to build an exclusive hospital for cancer patients. With the overwhelming support, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone for Adyar Cancer Institute in 1952.
🔹The hospital started functioning on 1954 as a single building with two doctors. Those are her son Dr. S. Krishnamurthy, who was professionally trained in Oncology from United States and London & Dr. V. Shanta who pioneered in the development of the Institution.
🔹In fact, Dr.Muthulakshmi Reddy was an eminent physician and a social reformer, who pioneered in the fight for social and political uplift of women in India. Her vision and values have inspired and changed the lifes of millions.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Multifaceted Women
The Great Noble Women
🇮🇳 Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy 🇮🇳🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
Indians Contribution in Medicine
JULY 3⃣0⃣
Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy
July 30, 1886 - July 22, 1968
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician 🇮🇳
💠Founder of Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai
Her contributions....
🔹Muthulakshmi was born in a small town called Pudukkottai in Tamilnadu.
🔹Since her father was a principal of college, she was encouraged for school studies. In fact, she was the first girl from Pudukkottai got admitted to high school.
🔹Afterthat, her mother forced into marriage at very young age. But she strongly rebelled against the decision and made her understood that education is most important for girls.
🔹With the support of her family, she successfully enrolled as a First Woman Medical Student in Madras Medical College.
🔹She was India’s first woman medical graduate in 1912. Also, she received a Gold Medal for her academic excellence.
🔹During her college days, she was very intimate with Sarojini Naidu and Annie Besant, thereby her philosophy & future was greatly influenced.
🔹After completing her higher studies in England, she began the Women's India Association in 1918. Subsequently, she became the First Woman Legislator in British India.
🔹She was also the first women chairperson of the State Social Welfare Board. By that, she did many social reforms and worked hard for the welfare of the children, women and gender equality.
🔹Thereupon, she started working towards the upliftment of women by fighting against devadasi system and abolished the system as well. She also raised her voice to change the marriage age of girls, women's rights to claim property and freedom of choice in education and career.
🔹She also founded schools and the first home (AVVAI HOME) for destitute women and orphan children at chennai in 1930, which continue it's service till today.
🔹Unfortunately, her sister died of cancer. This painful experience and agony made her to build an exclusive hospital for cancer patients. With the overwhelming support, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone for Adyar Cancer Institute in 1952.
🔹The hospital started functioning on 1954 as a single building with two doctors. Those are her son Dr. S. Krishnamurthy, who was professionally trained in Oncology from United States and London & Dr. V. Shanta who pioneered in the development of the Institution.
🔹In fact, Dr.Muthulakshmi Reddy was an eminent physician and a social reformer, who pioneered in the fight for social and political uplift of women in India. Her vision and values have inspired and changed the lifes of millions.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Multifaceted Women
The Great Noble Women
🇮🇳 Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy 🇮🇳🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 1⃣
Dr. Tadeus Reichstein
July 20, 1897 - Aug 1, 1996
💠Swiss Chemist
His contributions....
🔹Reichstein had studied chemistry in Zurich and completed his Ph.D in organic chemistry during 1925.
🔹After his studies, he began his research and thereby he became one of the Century's Great Masters of Organic Chemistry.
🔹He was the first who investigated the cause of the flavor of coffee. His revelation became a basis for the production of modern powdered extracts of coffee.
🔹Subsequent to the discovery of Vitamin C by the British Scientist Sir Norman Howarth, Dr. Reichstein had investigated and he was the first to synthesis Vitamin C.
🔹He further established "Reichstein Process", which is a bacterial fermentation method for the large-scale production of Vitamin C. It's still being used but in modified form.
🔹In the mid 1930, he pioneered the discovery on hormone produced from the adrenal glands. Subsequently, he isolated Cortisone and then along with his assistants had extracted another 29 different steroids from adrenal gland within ten years of time.
🔹Consequently, Dr. Reichstein was honored with shared Noble Prize of Medicine or Physiology in 1950 with two American scientists Edward Kendall and Philip Hench, for the discovery of cortisone in treating rheumatoid arthritis.
🔹Although he got retired in 1967, yet he continued to study about phytochemistry and related ferns in his laboratory.
🔹He also published more than 80 articles during last three decades of his life. Moreover, he was the only Noble Laureate had lived till the age of 99 years.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Great Organic Chemist
Dr. Tadeus Reichstein 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
AUGUST 1⃣
Dr. Tadeus Reichstein
July 20, 1897 - Aug 1, 1996
💠Swiss Chemist
His contributions....
🔹Reichstein had studied chemistry in Zurich and completed his Ph.D in organic chemistry during 1925.
🔹After his studies, he began his research and thereby he became one of the Century's Great Masters of Organic Chemistry.
🔹He was the first who investigated the cause of the flavor of coffee. His revelation became a basis for the production of modern powdered extracts of coffee.
🔹Subsequent to the discovery of Vitamin C by the British Scientist Sir Norman Howarth, Dr. Reichstein had investigated and he was the first to synthesis Vitamin C.
🔹He further established "Reichstein Process", which is a bacterial fermentation method for the large-scale production of Vitamin C. It's still being used but in modified form.
🔹In the mid 1930, he pioneered the discovery on hormone produced from the adrenal glands. Subsequently, he isolated Cortisone and then along with his assistants had extracted another 29 different steroids from adrenal gland within ten years of time.
🔹Consequently, Dr. Reichstein was honored with shared Noble Prize of Medicine or Physiology in 1950 with two American scientists Edward Kendall and Philip Hench, for the discovery of cortisone in treating rheumatoid arthritis.
🔹Although he got retired in 1967, yet he continued to study about phytochemistry and related ferns in his laboratory.
🔹He also published more than 80 articles during last three decades of his life. Moreover, he was the only Noble Laureate had lived till the age of 99 years.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Great Organic Chemist
Dr. Tadeus Reichstein 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 2⃣
Dr.J. Donald M.Gass
Aug 2, 1928 - Feb 26, 2005
💠Canadian-American Ophthalmologist
💠Father of Macular Diseases
His contributions....
🔸Donald Gass was born to a physician father and he studied medicine in Vanderbilt University School. Then he received his MD in 1957.
🔸After his studies, he began his career at Wilmer Eye Institute in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thereupon he did his fellowship in ophthalmic pathology and joined as a faculty in Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Medical school.
🔸In 1972, he became a Professor of Ophthalmology. His distinguished approach made him effective in clinical research and teaching.
🔸In 1961, there were two medical students called Novotny and Alvis from Indiana University was the first to demonstrate the Retinal Fluorescein Angiography.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Gass pioneered the utilization of Fluorescein Angiography and published his experience in the evaluation of retinal diseases.
🔸He was the first who described many Macular Diseases and made significant contributions to Chorioretinal Diseases.
🔸Moreover, he had published more than 280 Scientific articles and a groundbreaking textbook "Stereoscopic Atlas of Macular Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment".
🔸In his book, he described around hundreds of eye diseases with illustrations, photographs and drawings. His enormous work has widely accepted as "Gass's Atlas".
🔸His eponyms...
🔅 Irvine Gass Syndrome- Macular edema leads to visual impairment following cataract surgery.
🔅 Gass Classification of Macular Hole
🔅 Gass Classification of Parafoveal Telangiectasia
🔸Eventually, his groundbreaking work made him became one of the most significant figure emerge in ophthalmology in the last 100 years.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Marvelous Clinical Acumen
Dr. J. Donald M. Gass 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
AUGUST 2⃣
Dr.J. Donald M.Gass
Aug 2, 1928 - Feb 26, 2005
💠Canadian-American Ophthalmologist
💠Father of Macular Diseases
His contributions....
🔸Donald Gass was born to a physician father and he studied medicine in Vanderbilt University School. Then he received his MD in 1957.
🔸After his studies, he began his career at Wilmer Eye Institute in Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thereupon he did his fellowship in ophthalmic pathology and joined as a faculty in Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Medical school.
🔸In 1972, he became a Professor of Ophthalmology. His distinguished approach made him effective in clinical research and teaching.
🔸In 1961, there were two medical students called Novotny and Alvis from Indiana University was the first to demonstrate the Retinal Fluorescein Angiography.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Gass pioneered the utilization of Fluorescein Angiography and published his experience in the evaluation of retinal diseases.
🔸He was the first who described many Macular Diseases and made significant contributions to Chorioretinal Diseases.
🔸Moreover, he had published more than 280 Scientific articles and a groundbreaking textbook "Stereoscopic Atlas of Macular Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment".
🔸In his book, he described around hundreds of eye diseases with illustrations, photographs and drawings. His enormous work has widely accepted as "Gass's Atlas".
🔸His eponyms...
🔅 Irvine Gass Syndrome- Macular edema leads to visual impairment following cataract surgery.
🔅 Gass Classification of Macular Hole
🔅 Gass Classification of Parafoveal Telangiectasia
🔸Eventually, his groundbreaking work made him became one of the most significant figure emerge in ophthalmology in the last 100 years.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Marvelous Clinical Acumen
Dr. J. Donald M. Gass 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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August 3⃣
Dr.Robert Ernest House
August 3, 1875 - July 15, 1930
💠American Physician
💠Father of Truth Serum Drug
His contributions.....
🔸Robert House had studied medicine in Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and in Tulane University. After he received his MD graduation in 1899, he got trained in obstetrics.
🔸While he was practicing as an obstetrician in 1915, he was administrating the cocktail of drugs such as Morphine, Chloroform and Scopolamine to woman during the childbirth for anesthesia & analgesia effect.
🔸It normally makes the patient to get into "Twilight Sleep State". It's a state of conciousness with no pain perception or rememberance. Whereas he had noticed a additional strange effect on his patient and found that it triggered them to talk freely.
🔸Thereupon he was very curious on the twilight sleep and began his experiments with the drug scopolamine. He then concluded that during the state of twilight sleep due to this drug "The patient cannot create a lie because they would not have power to think or reason".
🔸He further worked with association of Texas Criminologists. Where he was supporting them in Determining the guilt or innocence of suspects by using scopolamine.
🔸Consequently, he was honored as a honorary member of National Police Commission & International Bureau of Identification for his wonderful Inventory of Narcoanalysis.
🔸Furthermore, he used the drug to diagnose and treat the insanity of patients with delusional disorder.
🔸Dr. House was a real revolutionary but unfortunately he died of stroke in the mid of his research and then the role of Scopolamine was takenover by other advanced drugs like sodium amytal and sodium pentothal during 1930s.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Discoverer of Scopolamine Confession
Dr.Robert Ernest House🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
August 3⃣
Dr.Robert Ernest House
August 3, 1875 - July 15, 1930
💠American Physician
💠Father of Truth Serum Drug
His contributions.....
🔸Robert House had studied medicine in Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and in Tulane University. After he received his MD graduation in 1899, he got trained in obstetrics.
🔸While he was practicing as an obstetrician in 1915, he was administrating the cocktail of drugs such as Morphine, Chloroform and Scopolamine to woman during the childbirth for anesthesia & analgesia effect.
🔸It normally makes the patient to get into "Twilight Sleep State". It's a state of conciousness with no pain perception or rememberance. Whereas he had noticed a additional strange effect on his patient and found that it triggered them to talk freely.
🔸Thereupon he was very curious on the twilight sleep and began his experiments with the drug scopolamine. He then concluded that during the state of twilight sleep due to this drug "The patient cannot create a lie because they would not have power to think or reason".
🔸He further worked with association of Texas Criminologists. Where he was supporting them in Determining the guilt or innocence of suspects by using scopolamine.
🔸Consequently, he was honored as a honorary member of National Police Commission & International Bureau of Identification for his wonderful Inventory of Narcoanalysis.
🔸Furthermore, he used the drug to diagnose and treat the insanity of patients with delusional disorder.
🔸Dr. House was a real revolutionary but unfortunately he died of stroke in the mid of his research and then the role of Scopolamine was takenover by other advanced drugs like sodium amytal and sodium pentothal during 1930s.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Discoverer of Scopolamine Confession
Dr.Robert Ernest House🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 4
Dr. Frederick Chapman Robbins
Aug 25, 1916 - Aug 4, 2003
💠American Pediatrician & Virologist
His contributions....
🔹Robbins had studied medicine at Harvard University Medical School and got his graduation in 1940. He studied medicine along with John F. Enders & Thomas Weller.
🔹During second World War, he was appointed as U.S. Army Physician. He then served at various places including United States, Italy and North Africa. Wherever he served, he involved himself in investigating the epidemics of Infectious hepatitis, typus and Q fever.
🔹After some time, he got an opportunity to rejoin with Dr. John F. Enders and Dr. Thomas Weller in Children's Hospital, Boston in 1948.
🔹They jointly had done a research and they were the First to Succeed in Cultivating the Polio virus in Tissue Culture Technique by using chick embryonic skin and muscle tissues as a growth medium.
🔹Their groundbreaking discovery had revealed about how to grow large amount of polio viruses. Subsequent to their revelation, the effective vaccine was found by Dr. Salk and Dr. Sabin.
🔹Moreover, their tissue culture technique had transformed virology and led the scientist to study viruses as never before.
🔹The Trio were honored with shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during 1954 for the discovery of polio virus to grow in tissue culture technique.
🔹Furthermore, Dr. Robbins had played a crucial role as an academic leader. He was being a Professor of Pediatrics and gradually promoted as a Dean in Western Reserve Hospital.
🔹Later, he became a chairman for International Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication in America during 1990. In the year 1996, he declared that polio was eradicated from the continent.
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A Day to Commemorate...
The Most Distinguished Medical Scientist
Dr. Frederick Chapman Robbins🙏🏼
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⚜️ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar. MD
Coimbatore.
AUGUST 4
Dr. Frederick Chapman Robbins
Aug 25, 1916 - Aug 4, 2003
💠American Pediatrician & Virologist
His contributions....
🔹Robbins had studied medicine at Harvard University Medical School and got his graduation in 1940. He studied medicine along with John F. Enders & Thomas Weller.
🔹During second World War, he was appointed as U.S. Army Physician. He then served at various places including United States, Italy and North Africa. Wherever he served, he involved himself in investigating the epidemics of Infectious hepatitis, typus and Q fever.
🔹After some time, he got an opportunity to rejoin with Dr. John F. Enders and Dr. Thomas Weller in Children's Hospital, Boston in 1948.
🔹They jointly had done a research and they were the First to Succeed in Cultivating the Polio virus in Tissue Culture Technique by using chick embryonic skin and muscle tissues as a growth medium.
🔹Their groundbreaking discovery had revealed about how to grow large amount of polio viruses. Subsequent to their revelation, the effective vaccine was found by Dr. Salk and Dr. Sabin.
🔹Moreover, their tissue culture technique had transformed virology and led the scientist to study viruses as never before.
🔹The Trio were honored with shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during 1954 for the discovery of polio virus to grow in tissue culture technique.
🔹Furthermore, Dr. Robbins had played a crucial role as an academic leader. He was being a Professor of Pediatrics and gradually promoted as a Dean in Western Reserve Hospital.
🔹Later, he became a chairman for International Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication in America during 1990. In the year 1996, he declared that polio was eradicated from the continent.
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A Day to Commemorate...
The Most Distinguished Medical Scientist
Dr. Frederick Chapman Robbins🙏🏼
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⚜️ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar. MD
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 5⃣
Dr. Ferdinand Von Hebra
Sept 7, 1816 - Aug 5, 1880
💠Austrian Dermatologist
💠Founder of Modern Dermatology
His contributions....
🔸Von Hebra had studied medicine in Vienna Medical School and received his graduation in 1841. While studying, he was highly inspired by his teacher called Dr. Karl Von Rokitansky, who is one of the Founder of Modern Pathological anatomy.
🔸After his studies, he got appointed in Dr. Joseph Skoda's chest clinic. There Dr. Skoda had noticed his keen interest on neglected skin disease patients. Thereby Dr. Skoda promoted him as an incharge for the division of skin diseases and further encouraged him to study dermatology extensively.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Hebra began his research and he was the first who successfully identified the causative mite Sarcoptes scabiei of Scabies and produced the first case report about Rhinoscleroma.
🔸He further described about many other skin diseases such as impetigo, lupus, lichen, erythema, syphilitic skin lesions.
🔸His eponym...
▪ "Hebra's Disease" also called as Erythema multiforme.
🔸Furthermore, he founded the New Vienna School of Dermatology and he became its first Professor of Dermatology in 1869. As he became well famous teacher during his period, he used to get students from all over the world to get trained in dermatology.
🔸He also authored ✍ the most influential dermatology book of all times "Atlas of Skin Diseases" with classical illustrations, which was prepared by two Austrian Medical Illustrators🖌.
🔸Moreover, he was a good friend of Dr. Ignaz Simmelweis. Later Dr. Hebra's book was translated and revised by his son-in-law Dr. Moritz Kaposi.
🔸Undoubtedly, Dr. Hebra had laid the foundation of present-day dermatology and developed a well-defined branch of medical science.
🔸After his death, he was buried in the same cementry of Dr. Rokitansky and Dr. Skoda. Thus the triumvirate remains together for eternity.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Man Who Marked the History of Dermatology
Dr. Ferdinand Von Hebra 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
AUGUST 6⃣
Sir Alexander Fleming
August 6,1881 - March 11,1955
💠Scottish Bacteriologist
His contributions.....
🔹Fleming was born in a small town in Scotland. His father was a farmer but unfortunately he passed away, when he was seven years old.
🔹After completion of schooling, he was working in a shipping office till the age of 20 years. By the guidance of his physician brother, he then joined to study medicine at St Mary's Medical School, London and got his graduation with distinction in 1906.
🔹After his studies, he joined as an assistant bacteriologist to Dr. Almroth Wright, who was a pioneer in vaccine therapy at St Mary's Hospital.
🔹In 1928, he got appointed as Professor of Bacteriology at the University of London. Simultaneously, he involved himself in investigating the antibacterial properties of nasal secretions and successfully discovered an enzyme called "Lysozyme".
🔹Subsequently, he was investigating the properties of Staphylococcus in his laboratory.
🔹On September 3, 1928 after returning from his August vacation, he found that one of the Petri dish containing staphylococcus was unknowingly left open and got contaminated with fungus.
🔹He further observed that colonies of staphylococcus immediately surrounding the fungus were destroyed. Whereas the colonies farther away was normal. Thereby Fleming had remarked as "That's Funny".
🔹He then identified the fungus as Penicillium notatum and named the mould juice as "Penicillin" on March 7, 1929.
🔹Furthermore, he investigated the anti-bacterial properties in many organisms and published his discovery in British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1929. But only little attention was paid towards the article.
🔹After 10 years of penicillin discovery, a team of Oxford University Scientists had started developing Penicillin.
🔹Thereupon, Sir. Ernst Boris Chain had studied and proposed the molecular structure of penicillin. He had taken-along Dr.Howard Florey to revisit the work of Fleming and carried out animal experiments and first ever clinical trials in Oxford in 1941.
🔹Meanwhile, Dr. Norman Heatley, a biochemist in Oxford team had developed a special technique to purify penicillin and produced sufficient quantities to combat bacterial infection.
🔹The well known lines about the creation of Penicillin....
Without Fleming, no Ernest Chain; without Ernest chain, no Florey; without Florey, no Heatley; without Heatley, no Penicillin drug.
🔹Finally, Sir Alexander Fleming, Dr.Ernest Boris Chain and Sir Howard Florey were jointly honoured with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of Penicillin and its curative effect in various diseases.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Physician Who First Discovered the Life Saving Drug
Sir Alexander Fleming 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
AUGUST 7⃣
Dr.Scipione Riva Rocci
August 7,1863 - March 15,1937
💠Italian Physician
His contributions....
🔸Riva Rocci had studied medicine at the University of Turin, Italy and received his graduation in 1888. He further completed pathology in 1894 and pediatrics in 1907.
🔸In early days of his career, he was very curious in treating tuberculosis. Being a clinician in a hospital, he had introduced the sanatorium, vaccination and radiology to fight againt tuberculosis. He then researching on "Iatrogenic Pneumothorax" for treating pulmonary tuberculosis.
🔸However, he is well-known for his famous invention of an Upper arm Cuff based Mercury Sphygmomanometer for measuring blood pressure in 1896.
🔸Subsequently, he developed the apparatus by using copper pipes, bicycle tubes and mercury barometer and also he designed an inflatable rubber cuff to encircle the arm. Earlier the rubber bulbs filled with water was used to compress the artery manually.
🔸He then calibrated and experimented with animals and humans. He did palpation of radial artery while the upper arm cuff was inflated. The pressure in the mercury sphygmomanometer at the moment of disappearance of radial pulse on palpation method marked the level of systolic blood pressure. Thereby Dr. Riva Rocci had measured systolic blood pressure.
🔸Furthermore, he had written a series of four articles about his new method of blood pressure measurement and published during 1896 and 1897.
🔸By using Riva-Rocci Cuff & Stethoscope, Dr.Nikolai Korotkoff, a Russian physician had described his famous Korotkoffs sound on auscultatory method in 1905. Thereupon he described both the appearance and disappearance of sounds over brachial artery and measured both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
🔸 Dr. Harvey Cushing, an American neurosurgeon was interested to meet Dr. Riva Rocci while hearing about his wonderful discovery and thereby he made a trip and visited him in 1911. Consequently, he became an Early adopter of Riva-Rocci Sphygmomanometer. He successfully used his apparatus to monitor his patients during anesthesia and surgery in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
🔸Thereafter, Riva-Rocci's Upper arm cuff based mercury sphygmomanometer and his palpatory method became famous all over the world. Whereas Riva-Rocci had refused to patent his invention.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Physician Behind the Mercury Sphygmomanometer
Dr. Scipione Riva-Rocci 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
AUGUST 9⃣
Dr. William T. G. Morton
August 9, 1819 - July 15, 1868
💠American Dental Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Morton had done his dental studies at world's first dental college Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and received his graduation in 1840.
🔸In 1844, he joined in Harvard Medical School, where he got interested to learn about Ether hence he studied the properties of ether from his professor Dr. Charles T. Jackson.
🔸After his studies, he began the experimental research on ether. On September 30, 1846 he performed the First Painless Tooth Extraction by administering ether to patient.
🔸Thereupon, Dr. Morton had invented a Delivery Instrument (Inhaler) to enable ether inhalation during surgery. His device consists of glass flask with a wooden mouthpiece that could be opened and closed depending on patient's state of conciousness.
🔸On October 26, 1846, he gave the First Successful Public Demonstration of painless surgical removal of jaw tumor by using his newly invented ether inhaler at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, an American physician and a medical reformer had suggested the apt word "Anaesthesia" to Dr. Morton for his pioneering work. The meaning of Anaesthesia in Greek is An - Without, Aesthesia - Sensibility.
🔸Thus Dr. Morton had created the new field of anesthesiology and opened a new era in surgery. He further taken an immeasurable steps forward.
🔸To honour his immense performance in the field of anesthesiology, the day October 16 has declared to celebrate as "Ether Day" and globally recognized as "World Anaesthesia Day".
A Day to Commemorate...
A Man of Great Accomplishment
Dr. William T. G. Morton 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
Indians Contribution in Medicine
AUGUST 1⃣0⃣
Prof. Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
August 10, 1951
💠🇮🇳 Indian Neuroscientist 🇮🇳
His contributions...
🔹Ramachandran was born in Tamil Nadu. He has done his medical studies at Stanley Medical College, Chennai and later completed his Ph.D at Trinity College, Cambridge.
🔹After completion of his studies, he got appointed as an Assistant Professor in Department of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego in 1983 and subsequently promoted as a Professor during 1998.
🔹In fact, he is well-known for his optimal performance in Behavioral neurology and visual perception.
🔹He further did his groundbreaking research on Phantom limbs and invented a Mirror Box- the mirror visual feedback (mirror therapy) as a treatment for phantom limb paralysis.
🔹Moreover, he was recognized as one of the first scientist, who has conducted research by using Functional MRI for Color Synesthesia which arise from cross activation between brain regions.
🔹He also researched about the facinating role of Mirror Neurons, which explains the varies human mental abilities such as empathy, imitation learning and evolution of language.
🔹Thereby, he declared that "Mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for biology".
🔹Furthermore, he was the first to publish the "Apotemnophilia" (Body Integrity Dysphoria) as a neurological disorder caused by the damage at right parietal lobe of brain🧠.
🔹He became well-known by his following best-selling books📚
🔅Phantoms in the Brain (1998)
🔅A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness (2004)
🔅The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)
🔅The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2012)
🔹Besides, he is very fascinating on Paleontology. While he was a young boy, he used to collect the sea shells & fossils and send his findings to the American Museum of Natural History. He has shown interest to unearth the rareties that needed to the museum.
🔹Indeed, he purchased the Skull fossil of dinosaur for $10,000 and donated to science museum in 2009. In order to honour his work, that Dinosaur was given his name as Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani.
🔹Eventually, his consistent performance promoted him to the present post Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California and an adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute.
🔹Dr.Ramachandran's meticulous role in medicine made him recognised as "A latter-day Marco Polo of Neuroscience and The Modern Paul Broca, journeying the silk road of science to strange and exotic cathays of mind".
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The Sherlock Holmes of Neuroscience
🇮🇳 Prof. Dr. V.S. Ramachandran 🇮🇳
Celebrating his birthday today💐🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
AUGUST 5⃣
Dr. Ferdinand Von Hebra
Sept 7, 1816 - Aug 5, 1880
💠Austrian Dermatologist
💠Founder of Modern Dermatology
His contributions....
🔸Von Hebra had studied medicine in Vienna Medical School and received his graduation in 1841. While studying, he was highly inspired by his teacher called Dr. Karl Von Rokitansky, who is one of the Founder of Modern Pathological anatomy.
🔸After his studies, he got appointed in Dr. Joseph Skoda's chest clinic. There Dr. Skoda had noticed his keen interest on neglected skin disease patients. Thereby Dr. Skoda promoted him as an incharge for the division of skin diseases and further encouraged him to study dermatology extensively.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Hebra began his research and he was the first who successfully identified the causative mite Sarcoptes scabiei of Scabies and produced the first case report about Rhinoscleroma.
🔸He further described about many other skin diseases such as impetigo, lupus, lichen, erythema, syphilitic skin lesions.
🔸His eponym...
▪ "Hebra's Disease" also called as Erythema multiforme.
🔸Furthermore, he founded the New Vienna School of Dermatology and he became its first Professor of Dermatology in 1869. As he became well famous teacher during his period, he used to get students from all over the world to get trained in dermatology.
🔸He also authored ✍ the most influential dermatology book of all times "Atlas of Skin Diseases" with classical illustrations, which was prepared by two Austrian Medical Illustrators🖌.
🔸Moreover, he was a good friend of Dr. Ignaz Simmelweis. Later Dr. Hebra's book was translated and revised by his son-in-law Dr. Moritz Kaposi.
🔸Undoubtedly, Dr. Hebra had laid the foundation of present-day dermatology and developed a well-defined branch of medical science.
🔸After his death, he was buried in the same cementry of Dr. Rokitansky and Dr. Skoda. Thus the triumvirate remains together for eternity.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Man Who Marked the History of Dermatology
Dr. Ferdinand Von Hebra 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 6⃣
Sir Alexander Fleming
August 6,1881 - March 11,1955
💠Scottish Bacteriologist
His contributions.....
🔹Fleming was born in a small town in Scotland. His father was a farmer but unfortunately he passed away, when he was seven years old.
🔹After completion of schooling, he was working in a shipping office till the age of 20 years. By the guidance of his physician brother, he then joined to study medicine at St Mary's Medical School, London and got his graduation with distinction in 1906.
🔹After his studies, he joined as an assistant bacteriologist to Dr. Almroth Wright, who was a pioneer in vaccine therapy at St Mary's Hospital.
🔹In 1928, he got appointed as Professor of Bacteriology at the University of London. Simultaneously, he involved himself in investigating the antibacterial properties of nasal secretions and successfully discovered an enzyme called "Lysozyme".
🔹Subsequently, he was investigating the properties of Staphylococcus in his laboratory.
🔹On September 3, 1928 after returning from his August vacation, he found that one of the Petri dish containing staphylococcus was unknowingly left open and got contaminated with fungus.
🔹He further observed that colonies of staphylococcus immediately surrounding the fungus were destroyed. Whereas the colonies farther away was normal. Thereby Fleming had remarked as "That's Funny".
🔹He then identified the fungus as Penicillium notatum and named the mould juice as "Penicillin" on March 7, 1929.
🔹Furthermore, he investigated the anti-bacterial properties in many organisms and published his discovery in British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1929. But only little attention was paid towards the article.
🔹After 10 years of penicillin discovery, a team of Oxford University Scientists had started developing Penicillin.
🔹Thereupon, Sir. Ernst Boris Chain had studied and proposed the molecular structure of penicillin. He had taken-along Dr.Howard Florey to revisit the work of Fleming and carried out animal experiments and first ever clinical trials in Oxford in 1941.
🔹Meanwhile, Dr. Norman Heatley, a biochemist in Oxford team had developed a special technique to purify penicillin and produced sufficient quantities to combat bacterial infection.
🔹The well known lines about the creation of Penicillin....
Without Fleming, no Ernest Chain; without Ernest chain, no Florey; without Florey, no Heatley; without Heatley, no Penicillin drug.
🔹Finally, Sir Alexander Fleming, Dr.Ernest Boris Chain and Sir Howard Florey were jointly honoured with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of Penicillin and its curative effect in various diseases.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Physician Who First Discovered the Life Saving Drug
Sir Alexander Fleming 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 7⃣
Dr.Scipione Riva Rocci
August 7,1863 - March 15,1937
💠Italian Physician
His contributions....
🔸Riva Rocci had studied medicine at the University of Turin, Italy and received his graduation in 1888. He further completed pathology in 1894 and pediatrics in 1907.
🔸In early days of his career, he was very curious in treating tuberculosis. Being a clinician in a hospital, he had introduced the sanatorium, vaccination and radiology to fight againt tuberculosis. He then researching on "Iatrogenic Pneumothorax" for treating pulmonary tuberculosis.
🔸However, he is well-known for his famous invention of an Upper arm Cuff based Mercury Sphygmomanometer for measuring blood pressure in 1896.
🔸Subsequently, he developed the apparatus by using copper pipes, bicycle tubes and mercury barometer and also he designed an inflatable rubber cuff to encircle the arm. Earlier the rubber bulbs filled with water was used to compress the artery manually.
🔸He then calibrated and experimented with animals and humans. He did palpation of radial artery while the upper arm cuff was inflated. The pressure in the mercury sphygmomanometer at the moment of disappearance of radial pulse on palpation method marked the level of systolic blood pressure. Thereby Dr. Riva Rocci had measured systolic blood pressure.
🔸Furthermore, he had written a series of four articles about his new method of blood pressure measurement and published during 1896 and 1897.
🔸By using Riva-Rocci Cuff & Stethoscope, Dr.Nikolai Korotkoff, a Russian physician had described his famous Korotkoffs sound on auscultatory method in 1905. Thereupon he described both the appearance and disappearance of sounds over brachial artery and measured both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
🔸 Dr. Harvey Cushing, an American neurosurgeon was interested to meet Dr. Riva Rocci while hearing about his wonderful discovery and thereby he made a trip and visited him in 1911. Consequently, he became an Early adopter of Riva-Rocci Sphygmomanometer. He successfully used his apparatus to monitor his patients during anesthesia and surgery in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
🔸Thereafter, Riva-Rocci's Upper arm cuff based mercury sphygmomanometer and his palpatory method became famous all over the world. Whereas Riva-Rocci had refused to patent his invention.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Physician Behind the Mercury Sphygmomanometer
Dr. Scipione Riva-Rocci 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 9⃣
Dr. William T. G. Morton
August 9, 1819 - July 15, 1868
💠American Dental Surgeon
His contributions....
🔸Morton had done his dental studies at world's first dental college Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and received his graduation in 1840.
🔸In 1844, he joined in Harvard Medical School, where he got interested to learn about Ether hence he studied the properties of ether from his professor Dr. Charles T. Jackson.
🔸After his studies, he began the experimental research on ether. On September 30, 1846 he performed the First Painless Tooth Extraction by administering ether to patient.
🔸Thereupon, Dr. Morton had invented a Delivery Instrument (Inhaler) to enable ether inhalation during surgery. His device consists of glass flask with a wooden mouthpiece that could be opened and closed depending on patient's state of conciousness.
🔸On October 26, 1846, he gave the First Successful Public Demonstration of painless surgical removal of jaw tumor by using his newly invented ether inhaler at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, an American physician and a medical reformer had suggested the apt word "Anaesthesia" to Dr. Morton for his pioneering work. The meaning of Anaesthesia in Greek is An - Without, Aesthesia - Sensibility.
🔸Thus Dr. Morton had created the new field of anesthesiology and opened a new era in surgery. He further taken an immeasurable steps forward.
🔸To honour his immense performance in the field of anesthesiology, the day October 16 has declared to celebrate as "Ether Day" and globally recognized as "World Anaesthesia Day".
A Day to Commemorate...
A Man of Great Accomplishment
Dr. William T. G. Morton 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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Indians Contribution in Medicine
AUGUST 1⃣0⃣
Prof. Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
August 10, 1951
💠🇮🇳 Indian Neuroscientist 🇮🇳
His contributions...
🔹Ramachandran was born in Tamil Nadu. He has done his medical studies at Stanley Medical College, Chennai and later completed his Ph.D at Trinity College, Cambridge.
🔹After completion of his studies, he got appointed as an Assistant Professor in Department of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego in 1983 and subsequently promoted as a Professor during 1998.
🔹In fact, he is well-known for his optimal performance in Behavioral neurology and visual perception.
🔹He further did his groundbreaking research on Phantom limbs and invented a Mirror Box- the mirror visual feedback (mirror therapy) as a treatment for phantom limb paralysis.
🔹Moreover, he was recognized as one of the first scientist, who has conducted research by using Functional MRI for Color Synesthesia which arise from cross activation between brain regions.
🔹He also researched about the facinating role of Mirror Neurons, which explains the varies human mental abilities such as empathy, imitation learning and evolution of language.
🔹Thereby, he declared that "Mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for biology".
🔹Furthermore, he was the first to publish the "Apotemnophilia" (Body Integrity Dysphoria) as a neurological disorder caused by the damage at right parietal lobe of brain🧠.
🔹He became well-known by his following best-selling books📚
🔅Phantoms in the Brain (1998)
🔅A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness (2004)
🔅The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)
🔅The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2012)
🔹Besides, he is very fascinating on Paleontology. While he was a young boy, he used to collect the sea shells & fossils and send his findings to the American Museum of Natural History. He has shown interest to unearth the rareties that needed to the museum.
🔹Indeed, he purchased the Skull fossil of dinosaur for $10,000 and donated to science museum in 2009. In order to honour his work, that Dinosaur was given his name as Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani.
🔹Eventually, his consistent performance promoted him to the present post Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California and an adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute.
🔹Dr.Ramachandran's meticulous role in medicine made him recognised as "A latter-day Marco Polo of Neuroscience and The Modern Paul Broca, journeying the silk road of science to strange and exotic cathays of mind".
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The Sherlock Holmes of Neuroscience
🇮🇳 Prof. Dr. V.S. Ramachandran 🇮🇳
Celebrating his birthday today💐🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
AUGUST 1⃣1⃣
Prof. Dr. John Benjamin Murphy
Dec 21, 1857 - Aug 11, 1916
💠 American Surgeon
His Contributions.....
🔸John Benjamin Murphy was popularly known as Murphy and he was born in Wisconsin, U.S.
🔸He was actually brought up in a farm house by his parents, who were Irish immigrants.
🔸During his high school days, he got inspired by a local physician and later he started studing medical text books under his guidance and begun to dissect birds and rabbits at his farm.
🔸Then he studied medicine at Rush Medical College, Chicago and got graduated in 1879.
🔸After his studies, Dr. Murphy got trained at various institutions in Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg. He also spent most of his time in working with Pioneer surgeon Dr. Theodor Billroth.
🔸Subsequently, Dr. Murphy became the Professor of clinical surgery and served at following three medical schools
▪Rush Medical College
▪College of Physicians and Surgeons
▪Northwestern University Medical School.
🔸In fact, he was an early advocate of appendectomy in cases of appendicitis and also performed many innovative procedures in neurosurgery, orthopedics, gynecology, urology, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery, and vascular surgery.
🔸He was a pioneer in making surgery as a speciality. Moreover, his lectures and clinical teachings were being published in popular name as "The Surgical Clinics of Chicago" and "The Surgical Clinics of North America."
🔸His Eponyms....
🔅 Murphy's sign- Classical sign of acute cholecystitis
🔅 Murphy's punch- Tenderness at renal angle in cases of perinephric abscess
🔅 Murphy’s Triad- Pain, vomiting and fever in appendicitis
🔅 Murphy’s Test- To elicit rigidity and tenderness in cases of perinephric abscess
🔅 Murphy’s Drip- Administering fluids by proctoclysis in cases of peritonitis
🔅 Murphy-Lane Bone Skid- A steel instrument for femoral head procedures
🔅 Murphy's button- A mechanical device used for intestinal anastomosis
🔸All over the career Prof. Dr. Murphy was celebrated as a master surgeon, superb clinician, great teacher, brilliant innovator, and a prolific author.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Surgical Genius
Prof. Dr. J. B. Murphy 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr.M.Gowri Sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
AUGUST 1⃣2⃣
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
Aug 28, 1919 - Aug 12, 2004
💠English Electrical Engineer
💠Inventor of CT Scan
His contributions....
🔹Hounsfield had grown with great passion to explore electrical and mechanical machines in his farm. He couldn't complete his schooling and did not hold any degree.
🔹During the outbreak of second world war, he volunteered for Royal Army Force, where he studied about radio mechanics and been an instructor in all his war days. In order to reward his meritorious service, he was sponsored a scholarship to study Diploma in Faraday House at London.
🔹After his studies, he was appointed as a research staff in EMI Ltd company, where he was researching on radar and guided weapons. He further shown his interest in computers and therefore he contributed himself for the development of Britain's first all-transistor computer.
🔹Subsequently, he was developing a software to improve the compilation of X-rays from various angles and then he arranged 3D image representation by using computer. Ultimately his idea led to the development of Computed Tomography, which became a great breakthrough in medical science.
🔹His prototype CT scanner was assigned exclusively to imaging head. He successfully tested by scanning preserved human brain🧠, then on animal brain and later he did it for himself.
🔹On October 1, 1971 CT scanning was introduced into medical world by the first successful scanning done on cerebral cyst patient at Atkinson Morley Hospital in London.
🔹In 1975, he built and introduced the Whole Body Scanner which revolutionized the field of medicine.
🔹Consequently, Hounsfield and Allan Macleod Cormack, a South African born American physicist who had proposed and published the mathematical basis CT scanning in early 1960 were honoured with shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979.
🔹To confer a honour, his name has immortalized by the Hounsfield scale, which is a measuring standard of radiodensity used in evaluating CT Scans.
🔹Moreover, he was a man of self-taught and one among the few noble laureates who have not learned their skills in university.
A Day to Commemorate...
The Man who Revolutionised Medical Imaging
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
A Tribute to the Physician Who Discovered the Benefits of Handwashing
Dr.Ignaz Semmelweis
July 1,1818 - August 13, 1865
💠Hungerian Obstetrician
💠Father of Infection Control
His contributions.......
🔸Semmelweis studied medicine in Vienna and got his MD graduation in 1844.
🔸After his studies, he joined to work as an Assistant to the Professor in the maternity clinic at Vienna General Hospital.
🔸While working, he had noticed that many women in maternity ward were dying from puerperal fever which was generally called as Childbed Fever.
🔸He further observed that the women who delivered by physicians and medical students had a high rate of puerperal fever than the women delivered by midwives.
🔸Subsequently, he did a Case-control analysis and concluded that the high rate of infection seen among women delivered by physicians and medical students was due to simultaneous handling of corpses during autopsies and attending the pregnant women. Whereas the midwives were not doing as such.
🔸Therefore, he pioneered Antiseptic procedures, which was emphasizing the compulsory handwashing policy with chlorinated lime solutions before examining the women in labour.
🔸As a result, he drastically reduced the incidence of fatal puerperal sepsis and the death rate of women as well.
🔸However, his statement on cleanliness was largely ignored and rejected. Ultimately, he was criticized for his work and also got dismissed from hospital. Hence he felt dejected and became mentally ill. Then he got admitted in mental asylum and unfortunately died in 14 days.
🔸His landmark discovery during 1850s was not accepted by medical profession. Whereas the same had earned wide spread acceptance after Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory of Diseases in 1860s.
🔸Eventually, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis had recognized as "The Father of Hand Hygiene" and really saved the lives by three effective words "Wash Your Hands."
A Day to Commemorate....
The Physician Who emphasized Hand Washing and Saved Lives
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
AUGUST 1⃣4⃣
Prof. Richard Darwin Keynes
August 14,1919 - June 12, 2010
💠British Physiologist
His contributions....
🔹Keynes was the great- grandson of Charles Darwin. He studied Natural Science course at Trinity College, Cambridge and then completed his Ph.D under the guidance of well-known physiologist Sir Alan Hodgkins.
🔹After his studies, he joined as a faculty in the University of Cambridge and became a Professor of Physiology in 1973. He served there until his retirement in 1987.
🔹Keynes had done his experiments by dissecting squid🦑 (a sea creature) and studied the biophysical properties of nerve fibres by using radioactive tracers.
🔹He had done a ground-breaking discovery by using Radioactive sodium and potassium traced the "Influx of Sodium ions and efflux of Potassium during the transmission of nerve impulse".
🔹He also proved that the nerves and muscles maintain their ionic concentration gradient by using "Sodium Pump".
🔹Furthermore, he elucidated the mystery of how Electric Eels (electric fish) project huge electric charges to stun and kill its prey.
🔹Ultimately, he published his work as following books,
🔅Nerve and Muscle (1981)
🔅The Comparative Physiology of Sensory System(1984)
🔹Moreover, he had made a significant contributions to our understanding and appreciation of Darwin's genius. He had written the biography of Charles Darwin in his books..
🔅The Beagle Record (1979)
🔅Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (1988)
🔅Charles Darwin's Zoology Notes and Specimen Lists from HMS Beagle (2000)
🔅Fossils Finches and Fuegians (2002)
🔹Thus, Dr. Richard Keynes was celebrated as a distinguished researcher and a champion for his work on the legacy of his great-grandfather Charles Darwin.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Distinguished Medical Researcher
Prof. Richard Darwin Keynes 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE
AUGUST 1⃣5⃣
Prof.Dr. Eugene Braunwald
August 15, 1929
💠American Cardiologist
💠Father of Modern Cardiology
His contributions...
🔸Braunwald was born in Vienna, Austria. During the second world war his family was forced to migrate to United States.
🔸He had studied medicine at New York University Medical School. He further worked there with his mentor Dr. Ludwig Eichna and thereby he got inspired to study cardiology.
🔸Thereupon, he did his post-graduate training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Subsequently he was inspired to do research in cardiology as a result of working with Dr. Andre Cournand, who pioneered the technique of cardiac catheterization.
🔸Then he got appointed as a first chief of the cardiology branch and clinical director at National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.
🔸Afterwards Dr. Braunwald started his extensive research in the field of cardiology and he was the first to measure both Left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular dp/dt in patients.
🔸Also, he was the first to identify and defined the pathophysiology of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
🔸Furthermore, his laboratory extended its research in myocardial stunning and ventricular remodeling after myocardial Infarction. He also demonstrated the salvage of ischemic myocardium following coronary occlusion.
🔸He founded & chaired TIMI (Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction) study group.
🔸In PROVE-IT TIMI 22 Trial, he further demonstrated the benefit of intensive reduction of LDL by statin therapy and thereby he changed the guidelines for practice.
🔸Moreover, he has published more than 1000 scientific articles. He was also working as a founding editor of premier book in cardiology Braunwald’s Heart Disease. He served as an editor for 12 editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine.
🔸Dr. Braunwald has played a significant role in cardiology in the past half century. He had given unprecedented contributions in cardiovascular research and clinical cardiology. His excellence continues in the roles of physician, scientist, academic teacher, editor and an administrator.
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The Most Renowned Cardiologist in the World
Prof. Dr. Eugene Braunwald🙏🏼
Celebrating his birthday today💐
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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AUGUST 1⃣7⃣
Dr. Thomas Hodgkin
Aug 17, 1798 - April 5, 1866
💠British Physician & Pathologist
His contributions...
🔸Hodgkin had studied medicine at St Thomas and Guy's Medical School, London in 1819. He then studied at the University of Edinburg and received his MD graduation🎓 in 1823.
🔸While he was a student in 1821, he went to Paris to learn the use of stethoscope, which was recently invented by Dr. Rene Laennec. After his trip, Hodgkin introduced the first stethoscope to Guy's Hospital.
🔸Then he began his career as a lecturer in anatomy at Guy's Medical School where he found his lifelong passion for pathology.
🔸Also, he was working with remarkable figures Dr. Richard Bright (Father of Nephrology) & Dr. Thomas Addison (Known for Addison's disease). The trio were celebrated as "The Three Great Men of Guy's".
🔸Furthermore, he was one of the first to describe the Aortic regurgitation. Here, he explained its clinical characteristics and correlation with post-mortem findings in the year 1827.
🔸His Eponym....
🔅 Key-Hodgkin Murmur - Diastolic murmur of aortic regurgitation with rasp quality.
🔸Subsequently, he designed the principles of Achromatic microscope 🔬in 1830 for his pathological study, which in turn led to "The Foundation of Modern Histology".
🔸He also described the disease which bears his name " Hodgkin's Lymphoma" in 1832. Here, he explained the pathological relationship between lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly and then published the article On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen.
🔸Moreover, he published his major work on pathology entitled The Morbid Anatomy of Serous and Mucous Membranes. It's a classical text book in modern pathology.
🔸Dr. Hodgkin also pioneered preventive medicine, which was published in the name of On the Means of Promoting and Preserving Health in 1841. In this, he had explained the benefits of cleanliness, fresh air and proper diet.
🔸He also devoted much of his life for philanthropic causes such as the relief of suffering in underdeveloped countries and the freeing of slaves.
🔸Finally, he concluded his service as "The little service I have done...."
A Day to Commemorate...
An Immortal Physician & a Social Reformer
Dr. Thomas Hodgkin 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
AUGUST 1⃣7⃣
Dr. Thomas Hodgkin
Aug 17, 1798 - April 5, 1866
💠British Physician & Pathologist
His contributions...
🔸Hodgkin had studied medicine at St Thomas and Guy's Medical School, London in 1819. He then studied at the University of Edinburg and received his MD graduation🎓 in 1823.
🔸While he was a student in 1821, he went to Paris to learn the use of stethoscope, which was recently invented by Dr. Rene Laennec. After his trip, Hodgkin introduced the first stethoscope to Guy's Hospital.
🔸Then he began his career as a lecturer in anatomy at Guy's Medical School where he found his lifelong passion for pathology.
🔸Also, he was working with remarkable figures Dr. Richard Bright (Father of Nephrology) & Dr. Thomas Addison (Known for Addison's disease). The trio were celebrated as "The Three Great Men of Guy's".
🔸Furthermore, he was one of the first to describe the Aortic regurgitation. Here, he explained its clinical characteristics and correlation with post-mortem findings in the year 1827.
🔸His Eponym....
🔅 Key-Hodgkin Murmur - Diastolic murmur of aortic regurgitation with rasp quality.
🔸Subsequently, he designed the principles of Achromatic microscope 🔬in 1830 for his pathological study, which in turn led to "The Foundation of Modern Histology".
🔸He also described the disease which bears his name " Hodgkin's Lymphoma" in 1832. Here, he explained the pathological relationship between lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly and then published the article On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen.
🔸Moreover, he published his major work on pathology entitled The Morbid Anatomy of Serous and Mucous Membranes. It's a classical text book in modern pathology.
🔸Dr. Hodgkin also pioneered preventive medicine, which was published in the name of On the Means of Promoting and Preserving Health in 1841. In this, he had explained the benefits of cleanliness, fresh air and proper diet.
🔸He also devoted much of his life for philanthropic causes such as the relief of suffering in underdeveloped countries and the freeing of slaves.
🔸Finally, he concluded his service as "The little service I have done...."
A Day to Commemorate...
An Immortal Physician & a Social Reformer
Dr. Thomas Hodgkin 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
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Indians Contribution in Medicine
AUGUST 1⃣8⃣
Dr. T.S. Soundaram
August 18,1904 - Oct 21,1984
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician & Social Reformer 🇮🇳
Her contributions...
🔹Soundaram was born in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. She was a daughter of T.V.Sundaram, the founder of TVS Group of companies, which is one of the India's largest industrial conglomerates.
🔹She got married with Dr. Soundararajan at her very young age of 14 years. Unfortunately, her husband succumbed during plague outbreak. But he insisted her to become a doctor and also to remarry when he was in deathbed.
🔹Hence she joined to study medicine with the support of her parents at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi and received her graduation in 1936.
🔹During her college days, she got an opportunity to meet Gandhiji and she dedicated herself for Indian freedom movement.
🔹Thereupon, she met G. Ramachandran, who was a teacher and intimate disciple of Gandhiji and also inmate of Gandhi's ashram. Then they fell in love with each other. She broke the barriers of caste and got married to him in 1940 with the blessings of Gandhiji.
🔹On their wedding day, Soundaram was privileged to wear a saree made of yarn spun by Kasturba Gandhi and a mangalsutra dipped in turmeric by Mahatma Gandhi himself.
🔹After her medical studies, she involved in Quit India movement. Gandhi was impressed by her commitment and he appointed her as a representative of South India's Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust.
🔹Therefore the couple shifted to Dindigul, Tamil Nadu and intrumental in setting-up Gandhigram in 1947 for rural development.
🔹Furthermore, she enthusiastically involved herself to focus on healthcare, education, economic development and social welfare in the rural communities.
🔹In 1947, she began a two bedded clinic in a village called Chinnalapatti. Being a visionary, she made the hospital with several inroads into rural health and family welfare which has become a 300-Bedded Kasturba Hospital now.
🔹In 1956, they founded "The Gandhigram Rural Institute" later it became a Deemed University in 1976. The purpose of building the institute is to uplift Rural Students, Rural People and Rural Villages.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Soundaram entered into politics and she was elected twice as a MLA and then Member of Parliment representing Dindigul district in 1962.
🔹Later, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had trust and appointed her as the Union Deputy Minister for Education. While in service, she played a main role in making primary education free all over the country.
🔹Consequently, she was honoured for her meritorious social work with Padma Bhushan award in 1962.
🔹In fact, she was born rich but lived a very simple life by possessing only three sets of khadhi sarees and did selfless service to the underprivileged. Thereby, she became a living example for Gandhian vision.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician with Beautiful Mind and Generosity of heart
🇮🇳 Dr. T.S. Soundaram 🇮🇳🙏🏼
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⚜️Dr.M.Gowri Sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
Indians Contribution in Medicine
AUGUST 1⃣8⃣
Dr. T.S. Soundaram
August 18,1904 - Oct 21,1984
💠🇮🇳 Indian Physician & Social Reformer 🇮🇳
Her contributions...
🔹Soundaram was born in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. She was a daughter of T.V.Sundaram, the founder of TVS Group of companies, which is one of the India's largest industrial conglomerates.
🔹She got married with Dr. Soundararajan at her very young age of 14 years. Unfortunately, her husband succumbed during plague outbreak. But he insisted her to become a doctor and also to remarry when he was in deathbed.
🔹Hence she joined to study medicine with the support of her parents at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi and received her graduation in 1936.
🔹During her college days, she got an opportunity to meet Gandhiji and she dedicated herself for Indian freedom movement.
🔹Thereupon, she met G. Ramachandran, who was a teacher and intimate disciple of Gandhiji and also inmate of Gandhi's ashram. Then they fell in love with each other. She broke the barriers of caste and got married to him in 1940 with the blessings of Gandhiji.
🔹On their wedding day, Soundaram was privileged to wear a saree made of yarn spun by Kasturba Gandhi and a mangalsutra dipped in turmeric by Mahatma Gandhi himself.
🔹After her medical studies, she involved in Quit India movement. Gandhi was impressed by her commitment and he appointed her as a representative of South India's Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust.
🔹Therefore the couple shifted to Dindigul, Tamil Nadu and intrumental in setting-up Gandhigram in 1947 for rural development.
🔹Furthermore, she enthusiastically involved herself to focus on healthcare, education, economic development and social welfare in the rural communities.
🔹In 1947, she began a two bedded clinic in a village called Chinnalapatti. Being a visionary, she made the hospital with several inroads into rural health and family welfare which has become a 300-Bedded Kasturba Hospital now.
🔹In 1956, they founded "The Gandhigram Rural Institute" later it became a Deemed University in 1976. The purpose of building the institute is to uplift Rural Students, Rural People and Rural Villages.
🔹Moreover, Dr. Soundaram entered into politics and she was elected twice as a MLA and then Member of Parliment representing Dindigul district in 1962.
🔹Later, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had trust and appointed her as the Union Deputy Minister for Education. While in service, she played a main role in making primary education free all over the country.
🔹Consequently, she was honoured for her meritorious social work with Padma Bhushan award in 1962.
🔹In fact, she was born rich but lived a very simple life by possessing only three sets of khadhi sarees and did selfless service to the underprivileged. Thereby, she became a living example for Gandhian vision.
A Day to Commemorate...
A Physician with Beautiful Mind and Generosity of heart
🇮🇳 Dr. T.S. Soundaram 🇮🇳🙏🏼
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⚜️Dr.M.Gowri Sankar.MD
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE AUGEST-19 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
AUGUST 1⃣9⃣
Dr. Story Musgrave, M.D.
August 19, 1935
💠American Physician & NASA Astronaut👨🚀
His contributions...
🔸Musgrave has studied BS in maths and statistics at Syracuse University in 1958. He then earned his MBA in Operations Analysis and Computer Programming. Thereafter, he has done BA in chemistry.
🔸In 1964, he received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also did his fellowship from the Air Force and the Heart Institute. Additionally earned a Master’s degree in Physiology and Biophysics.
🔸Based on his impressive list of academic credentials, Dr. Musgrave was selected as a Scientist-Astronaut by NASA in the year 1967.
🔸After completion of NASA academic training, he worked on the Design and Development of the United States Space station called Skylab Program. There he orbited the earth from 1973 - 1976 as a backup Science Pilot.
🔸He further Designed and Developed the space suits, life support systems and equipments needed for space walk.
🔸Simultaneously, he has worked as trauma surgeon and pioneered the research in Cardiovascular and Exercise physiology and Temperature Regulation in Aviation Medicine at his 30th year of service in NASA.
🔸He also published more than 25 scientific research papers and authored The NASA Northrop T-38- A Photographic Art from an Astronaut Pilot.
🔸Furthermore, he is considered as a mission specialist because he is the only person flied on all United States space shuttle orbiters. Thereby he had spent a total of 1,281 hours, 59 minutes, 22 seconds on space missions, including 27 hours of space walk.
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An Astonishing Physician Astronaut
Dr. Story Musgrave
Celebrating his birthday today 🙏🏼💐
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
AUGUST 1⃣9⃣
Dr. Story Musgrave, M.D.
August 19, 1935
💠American Physician & NASA Astronaut👨🚀
His contributions...
🔸Musgrave has studied BS in maths and statistics at Syracuse University in 1958. He then earned his MBA in Operations Analysis and Computer Programming. Thereafter, he has done BA in chemistry.
🔸In 1964, he received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also did his fellowship from the Air Force and the Heart Institute. Additionally earned a Master’s degree in Physiology and Biophysics.
🔸Based on his impressive list of academic credentials, Dr. Musgrave was selected as a Scientist-Astronaut by NASA in the year 1967.
🔸After completion of NASA academic training, he worked on the Design and Development of the United States Space station called Skylab Program. There he orbited the earth from 1973 - 1976 as a backup Science Pilot.
🔸He further Designed and Developed the space suits, life support systems and equipments needed for space walk.
🔸Simultaneously, he has worked as trauma surgeon and pioneered the research in Cardiovascular and Exercise physiology and Temperature Regulation in Aviation Medicine at his 30th year of service in NASA.
🔸He also published more than 25 scientific research papers and authored The NASA Northrop T-38- A Photographic Art from an Astronaut Pilot.
🔸Furthermore, he is considered as a mission specialist because he is the only person flied on all United States space shuttle orbiters. Thereby he had spent a total of 1,281 hours, 59 minutes, 22 seconds on space missions, including 27 hours of space walk.
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An Astonishing Physician Astronaut
Dr. Story Musgrave
Celebrating his birthday today 🙏🏼💐
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
| 🦜🦜🌾🌾🌾 HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE AUGEST-20 🌾🌾🌾🦜🦜 |
HISTORY TODAY IN MEDICINE*
AUGUST 2⃣0⃣
Prof. Dr. Eduard Hitzig
Feb 6, 1838 - Aug 20, 1907
💠German Neurophysiologist
His contributions...
🔹Hitzig studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin and Wurzburg under the teaching of very famous teachers Rudolf Virchow, Heinrich Romberg and Friedrich Otto Westpal and then received his doctorate in 1862.
🔹In 1875, he got appointed as a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich and then became a Professor at the University of Halle in the year 1885, where he served until his retirement.
🔹During the year 1800, the neuroscientists had started to assign the functions of cerebral cortex🧠.
🔹After some time, Dr. Paul Broca, a French physician in 1861 had proposed that damage to the left frontal lobe (later named as Broca's area) leads to aphasia.
🔹Simultaneously, the British Neurologist Dr. John Hughlings Jackson had described the "Jacksonian march" and hypothesized that different areas in the cortex might be responsible for the movement in different parts of the body.
🔹Later, in the year 1870, Dr. Hitzig along with Dr. Gustav Fritsch, a German Physiologist extended their experimental support for Jackson's hypothesized motor areas of the brain.
🔹Further they probed the Cerebral Cortex of the Dog 🦮 and discovered that electrical stimulation at different areas of the cerebrum causes movement in the dogs contralateral muscles.
🔹Thereby they identified the Brain's "Primary Motor Cortex"- A vertical strip on the cerebrum.
🔹Furthermore, his work was published as "On the Electrical Excitability of the Cerebrum" in 1870.
🔹This was the very first experimentation test had done as a localization study regarding the brain and electric current. Subsequently, their discovery regarding the brain became a cornerstone in brain research.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Neuroscientist
Prof. Dr. Eduard Hitzig 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
AUGUST 2⃣0⃣
Prof. Dr. Eduard Hitzig
Feb 6, 1838 - Aug 20, 1907
💠German Neurophysiologist
His contributions...
🔹Hitzig studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin and Wurzburg under the teaching of very famous teachers Rudolf Virchow, Heinrich Romberg and Friedrich Otto Westpal and then received his doctorate in 1862.
🔹In 1875, he got appointed as a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich and then became a Professor at the University of Halle in the year 1885, where he served until his retirement.
🔹During the year 1800, the neuroscientists had started to assign the functions of cerebral cortex🧠.
🔹After some time, Dr. Paul Broca, a French physician in 1861 had proposed that damage to the left frontal lobe (later named as Broca's area) leads to aphasia.
🔹Simultaneously, the British Neurologist Dr. John Hughlings Jackson had described the "Jacksonian march" and hypothesized that different areas in the cortex might be responsible for the movement in different parts of the body.
🔹Later, in the year 1870, Dr. Hitzig along with Dr. Gustav Fritsch, a German Physiologist extended their experimental support for Jackson's hypothesized motor areas of the brain.
🔹Further they probed the Cerebral Cortex of the Dog 🦮 and discovered that electrical stimulation at different areas of the cerebrum causes movement in the dogs contralateral muscles.
🔹Thereby they identified the Brain's "Primary Motor Cortex"- A vertical strip on the cerebrum.
🔹Furthermore, his work was published as "On the Electrical Excitability of the Cerebrum" in 1870.
🔹This was the very first experimentation test had done as a localization study regarding the brain and electric current. Subsequently, their discovery regarding the brain became a cornerstone in brain research.
A Day to Commemorate...
An Eminent Neuroscientist
Prof. Dr. Eduard Hitzig 🙏🏼
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⚜Dr. M Gowri Sankar. MD.
Coimbatore.
