Lecture 1: History Of Osteopathic Med Flashcards
(26 cards)
Who was the father of osteopathic medicine
A. T. STills
How many siblings did AT STills have?
3rd of 9 siblings
Who was A.T. STill’s father?
Abram Still
Methodist preacher
Medical doctor
Who was AT Still’s mother?
Martha Prague Moore
Daughter of James Moore (who was sold into slavery)
How many children did AT Still have?
12 children
6 died
How old was AT Stills when he opened the schools of osteopathy
64
How old was AT Stills when he died
89
3 years after a stroke
Where was AT STills born?
Jonesville, VA 1828
Who promoted health through exercise, cleanliness, temperance in food and drink, and wrote Primitive Physick: An Easy and Natural Way of Curing Most Diseases in 1747?
John Wesley
How did AT stills help the abolition movement
Wrote Go to the Praire Was confronted by proslave militia Elected to represent Douglas and Johnson county Participated in battles Served 5 years in legislature
Developed a method for antisepsis in surgery
Joseph Lister 1864
Thought fever alone meant disease, believed in bloodletting as the surest cure, and purged people with Calomel (mercury).
Benjamin Rush, 1745-1813
Considered the father of psychiatry
Benjamin rush
Created evidence based medicine, wrote Methode Expectante, a therapeutic doctorine that stated that the physicians role was to help the body heal itself, and he created the numerical method.
Pierre Louis
Who took the best from empirical medicine, regular medicine, Indian doctors, and botanic practitioners to find effective medical techniques. He was known as eclectic (eclecticism)
Wooster Beach
Believed like helped like, as in like symptoms should be treated by drugs that produced the same symptoms. Coined the phrase Homeopathy
Samuel Hahnemann
What are the tenets of osteopathic medicine
Body is a unit
Body, mind, and spirit
Body is capable of self regulation, self healing, and health maintenance
Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated
When did AT Still fling to the breeze the banner of osteopathy?
1874
First Africana American physician
Meta christy
What did the 1910 flexure report do?
Closed doors of schools that were “for profit”.
Increased admissions standards
We’re osteopathic physicians allowed to serve in world war 1
No
But Teddy Roosevelt wrote a letter in favor of them, describing how his family had benefited from the care of an osteopathic physician
When were DO deemed indispensable
Near the end of WWII
When did the California osteopathic association merge with the California medical association?
1962
Last state to fully license physicians?
Louisiana 1990
