Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Moments of Truth: Four Creators of Modern Medicine

2004; BMJ; Volume: 328; Issue: 7453 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.328.7453.1443-a

ISSN

0959-8138

Autores

Ioana Vlad,

Tópico(s)

Medical History and Innovations

Resumo

None of the four 19th century medical personalities who are the subjects of this book won the Nobel prize, but all made important steps in the development of today's medicine. At a time when immediate auscultation and hippocratic succusion (holding patients by their shoulders and shaking them vigorously) were typical diagnostic procedures, the Frenchman Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope and introduced it to clinical practice. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian obstetrician, proved that puerperal fever was a type of septicaemia and pioneered antiseptic obstetrics. The book's third part focuses on …

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