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Dr Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen.
©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(4) Navy surgeon One of the shining lights in the history of obstetrics was Dr Alexander Gordon, who was born in Strachan, about 20 miles south west of Aberdeen in 1752. He studied at Marischal College, where he obtained an MA, and graduated in medicine from Aberdeen University. In 1780, Gordon entered the Navy as surgeon’s mate and 2 years later ach...
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Alexander Gordon, one of twin boys, was born in 1752 in the parish of Strachan, 20 miles south west of Aberdeen. Little is known of his early life, but he obtained an MA at Marischal College, and after further study at the Aberdeen Infirmary and in Edinburgh, graduated in medicine at the University of Aberdeen. In 1780, at the age of 28, with testimonial letters from the Corporation of Surgeons...
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The historical controversy regarding priority in the discovery of the contagiousness of puerperal fever' persists, most medical historians ascribing it to two nineteenth-century physicians: the American Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)2 and/or the Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis (I1818-1865).3 That conclusion, however, is not borne out by this study. It is true that Holmes was the first American ph...
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Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor who practised in 19th century Vienna, is widely believed to be the father of modern infection control. He earned this accolade when he showed that puerperal sepsis was contagious and that it could be prevented with adequate hand hygiene. In fact, such ideas had circulated in the medical world for at least a century before Semmelweis' work. Moreover, it is we...
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Alexander Gordon's writing reveals nascent ideas about infectious disease, tensions in medical thinking in the time of the Enlightenment, but also a practice of medicinal therapy that resonates with that of the present day. His Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever contained observations and deductions which provided, for the first time, compelling evidence of the contagious mode of transmis...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39094.548056.fa