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A Glimpse Of The Past Through The Physician Collection - A Glimpse Of The Past Through The Doctors Collection - Doctors hold a special niche for most people. It may be the outright need of professional medical support, but it’s more than that. A bond forms between patient and provider based on caring. It is so apparent, we call it one of the “caring” professions. The dedication necessary to become a doctor develops an appreciation by the receiver of the care involved. Throughout history many doctors have attained a high degree of prominence because of their personal and medical endeavors. Walter Reed, an army surgeon, headed a 1900 Havana study of Yellow Fever. Army volunteers were exposed to clothing of victims, not becoming ill. Another group bitten by aedes aegypti species, or inoculated with serum from infected blood became ill. Yellow fever was the 1st disease attributed to a virus. The Panama Canal was made possible when army surgeon William Gorgas cleaned out mosquito sites.William & Charles Mayo joined their father at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN, and while building a cooperative group clinic made up of many specialties, founded the Mayo Clinic in 1905, and later the Graduate School. EPHRAIM McDOWELL was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, educated in Virginia, and Scotland under Dr. John Bell. Known as an accomplished abdominal surgeon, in 1809 he performed the first successful ovariotomy. His work largely ignored, he performed many more abdominal surgeries, one on President James Polk. HUGH WILLIAMSON is the only physician to sign the Constitution. He received a medical degree from the University of Utrecht, Holland, and settled in Edenton, NC in 1776. From 1787 to 1793 he was a Delegate to the Constitutional Congress, thus present for the signing. His position in the picture is uncertain. SUN YAT-SEN was the son of a poor farmer in China, and left for Honolulu at age 14, where he learned English and western ways. Returning to China, he was banished from his village and attended Alice Memorial Hospital in Hong Kong, graduating with honors in medicine. However, ideas of revolution dominated his life. When Chiang Kai-shek defeated Chen Chiun-ming, Sun came to govern southern China.George Papanicolaou is famous for the PAP smear based on the fact that cancers produce atypical cells identifiable by study of properly stained samples. The method is most important in early detection of cervical and uterine cancers. CRAWFORD LONG received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and performed the first surgery using ether in 1842, finally publishing his results in 1849. This was the very beginning of ether anesthesia in the United States.Paul White pioneered in diagnosis and prevention of diseases of the heart and circulatory systems, and was one of the first to use the electro-cardiograph to detect disorders. His 1931 book Heart Disease, is a standard reference in the field. He was a staunch advocate of weight control, proper diet and daily exercise. MARY WALKER was ahead of her times on women’s rights, becoming a physician in 1855 and serving as a nurse in the Civil War until commissioned and made an assistant surgeon. She became the first woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, awarded for her medical work in the Civil War. PAUL REVERE performed the first recorded forensic use of dental records when he identified the body of Dr. Joseph Warren who had been killed along with 420 other militia at Bunker Hill June 17, 1775. Revere was a silversmith, but also a dentist, a gun powder manufacturer and a copper engraver. He designed the first Continental currency, the official seal of the colonies, and the state seal of Massachusetts. MANASSEH CUTLER graduated from Yale, was ordained a minister, was a teacher, merchant, lawyer, chaplain. He also studied and practiced medicine. Knowledgeable in botany, astronomy and microscopy - he led a varied and interesting life. HARVEY CUSHING founded neurosurgery, contributed to understanding the pituitary, its disease symptoms being known as Cushing’s Syndrome. He contributed a great deal to training new surgeons, with text books illustrated with his own casework findings and his own hand drawn illustrations. HARVEY Wiley received his medical degree from Indiana Medical College and did graduate work at Harvard. He was appointed chief chemist for the Dept. of Agriculture, where he spent 30 years. His efforts to improve food quality and Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL studied privately, and was finally admitted to the Geneva Medical School, NY. She began a dispensary, staffed by women, and with the help of Clara Barton trained nurses for the Civil War. She founded the Women’s Medical College in New York as well as a similar school in London. Pharmacy had roots in a movement to standardize the strength and purity of medicines (pharmacopoeia). The first such published lists were the Nuovo Receptario of Florence (1498) and the Dispensatorium of Colerius Cordis of Nuremberg (1546)