Medicine in Dallas 100 Years Ago

Medicine in Dallas 100 years ago.

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Edited version of a video transcript of internal medicine grand rounds, presented at Baylor University Medical Center on April 28, 1998. Corresponding author: John S. Fordtran, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75246. 184

Appendicitis in Bristol—100 Years Ago

In Volume 4 of the Bristol Med-Chi Journal (1886)1 we find a report of a 13 year old boy who developed abdominal pain in the right iliac fossa. He was anorexic, had vomited and was noted to be pyrexial; examination revealed tenderness localised to the right iliac fossa. Treatment was conservative with turpentine, castor oil and local poultices. When he failed to improve over the next three days...

The Discovery of Renin 100 Years Ago.

In 1898, Tigerstedt and Bergman published their observation that kidney extracts produce pressor effects. They characterized the substance and named it "renin." Although this was the beginning of understanding the role of the kidney in hypertension and the renin-angiotensin system, their discovery lay dormant for nearly 40 years.

Medicine 100 years ago: a glimpse at Osler's textbook of medicine.

Experimental medicine 1000 years ago

Little is known about the state of experimentation in the field of medicine during the Medieval Islamic era. With few exceptions, most of the contemporary sources on history of medicine propagate the idea that the roots of experimental medicine in its modern form, including clinical trials and drug-potency studies, first started during the European Renaissance in the 16(th) to the 18(th) centur...