Calomel and Bleed to Syncope; 2002
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0087
- Title
- Calomel and Bleed to Syncope; 2002
- Description
- James A. Huston traces the progress made in a little over 100 years in caring for wounded soldiers and other patients. People were suffering from dysentery, typhoid fever, typhus, small pox, autumnal remittance, and other serious conditions. George Washington was concerned. Huston traces the challenges, failures and successes in improving medical treatment. His presentation concludes by highlighting ten people “to whom we owe a special debt of gratitude for our health."
- Date
- 21 February 2002
- Creator
- Huston, James A.
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- James A. Huston
- Huston
- 2002
- Continental Congress
- Massachusetts Bay provincial Congress
- Massachusetts Board of Examiners
- Dr. Benjamin Church
- Committee of Safety
- Nathaniel Greene
- John Morgan
- William Shippen, Jr
- military hospitals
- Valley Forge
- Jockey Hollow
- James Tilton
- Benjamin Rush
- Cotton Mather
- inoculation
- Martha Washington
- Benjamin Franklin
- yellow fever epidemic
- Alexander Hamilton
- An Act to Prevent the Spreading of Contagious Diseases
- evaluation of casualties
- field hospitals
- mortality rate
- Germ Theory
- Edward Jenner
- James Tilton
- Florence Nightingale
- Dorothea Dix
- Sally Tompkins
- Jonathan Letterman
- Louis Pasteur
- Robert Koch
- Joseph Lister
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- James A. Huston