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Thirty Six Surgeons And Many Assistant Surgeons
387 wordsCivil War Medicine In the Civil War era medical advances were few and so were surgeons. This time period is known in medical history as the "Medical Middle-Ages". This was the beginning of the technology of today. In this time doctors or physicians were known as surgeons. At the beginning of the war the United States Medical Corp. consisted of less than one hundred people on staff. This included the United States Surgeon General, thirty-six surgeons, and many assistant surgeons. Soon after the w...
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Medical Community Against The Use Of Inoculation
551 wordsIn the spring of 1721, Boston became alarmed at the news of smallpox in their town. In April a Negro from a Caribbean ship brought the disease to Boston, and was immediately quarantined. In the coming months more than half the community's ten thousand residents, approximately eight hundred, fell ill. When the town of Boston realized that smallpox had appeared again, the people became terror-stricken. In Boston, survival or death it was thought depended on one's chance or divine intervention acco...
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Forensic Science Medical Examiner
1,692 wordsForensic Science, also known as Forensics, is the application of science to law. It uses highly developed technology to uncover scientific evidence in a variety of fields. Modern forensic science has a broad range of applications. It is used in civil cases such as forgeries, fraud or negligence. The most common use of forensic science is to investigate criminal cases involving a victim, such as assault, robbery, kidnapping, rape, or murder. Forensic science is also used in monitoring the complia...
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Quality Systems And Medical Device Reporting Regulations
2,360 wordsMarconi Medical Systems Magnetic Resonance division designs, manufactures, and installs MRI systems and associated equipment for the worldwide medical diagnostic imaging market. In addition, Marconi MR imports MRI systems from Nord star (located in Helsinki, Finland) and installs them in the United States. Associated equipment includes surface coils and physician viewing stations. Surface coils are specialized transducers, which, when used with an MRI machine, produce high-quality images of spec...
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Use Of Psilocybin
371 wordsPsilocybinHistoryPsilocybin first appeared in Native American habitats as long ago as 1000 b. c. but was seriously investigated until 1936. Westerners first discovered the drug and it was first synthesized by Dr. Albert Hoffman in 1958. It was first used as a tool in psychotherapy and the treatment of emotional disorders. Yes, psilocybin is illegal and its possession, use, and sale carry heavy prison sentences and fines and disciplinary consequences. It is illegal because it had high potential f...
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Use Of Ozone
1,923 wordsKlyment Tan March 2, 1998 Ozone in Medicine: Modern Magic Bullet or Fatal Deception Ozone may be one of the most misunderstood medical achievements of this century. In this essay, facts will be filtered from politics to find the answer to this question: Ozone-the modern magic bullet or fatal deception First of all, what is ozone As defined in the Encarta Encyclopedia: Ozone (Greek oz ein, "to smell"), allotropic form of oxygen having three atoms in each molecule, formula O 3. It is a pale blue, ...
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Gingko Biloba And Other Substances
1,549 wordsElixirs For Your Memory: The blitz is on for ginkgo and other herbal products, but are they panaceas or placebos -Time Magazine September 13, 1999 Recently, everywhere you turn, you see or hear about new herbal remedies used for improving ones memory and concentration. One more frequently discussed is Ginkgo Biloba. It is an herbal substance that offers hope for improving memory, concentration and brain functions. Ginkgo Biloba is a derivative of a leafy ornamental tree that originated in easter...
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Indians Of Northern California And Oregon Use
1,264 wordsStories of Native Americans contributions to the advancement of health and medicine traces were discovered in a small town in Nal i, Africa. The very first onset of the beggining of modern pharmacology is the substance called "quinine". This is the substance that came from a bark of a tree that grew in high elevations. The Indians has been using this substance to cure malaria, cramps, chills, hear-rythm disorders and many other ailments. Prior to the discovery of quinine, the old world suffers e...
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Lot
941 wordsWhen Mrs. Fallon first described this project to us, I was a little bit skeptical about it. I kept thinking that I had no problems in my life and that I didnt need any type of conditioning. But then I thought, Im definitely not perfect and I knew I was definitely overlooking something. Recently I was diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) and I felt like I was cheated out of so many years that could have been productive ones. So I decided that for my conditioning project I ...
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Of The Effects Of Marijuana Use
3,078 wordsMary Jane "Legalization of Marijuana" For many years now there has been a constant argument over whether or not the medicinal uses of marijuana are enough to overlook the side effects of the drug and make it legal for medical use in the United States. To many people, when they think of the plant marijuana, technically known as Cannabis Sativa, or hear the phrase "legalization of marijuana", they tend to only think of the addict smoking it for a high and not the person using it as a medicine. How...
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Psychologist's Collaboration With Primary Care Physicians
877 wordsAround 1990, psychologists and educators began to notice increasing use of methylphenidate by students. Diagnosis of attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder by family physicians and pediatricians was most commonly based on brief behavioral descriptions by parents and, infrequently, by use of rating scales. At that time, the present researchers began to explore the development of a school-based, methodologically sound, and inexpensive method of assessing the efficacy of stimulant medications, ...
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Psychotropic Medications For Children
280 wordsThe First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton and the Clinton Administration has proposed to increase focus and funding for research on the use of psychotropic medications in very young children. The recent reporting of stories in the news media documenting the increased use of psychotropic medications in children under five years old, for conditions such as ADD and depression, has appropriately raised concerns among parents, health care professionals, and legislators. Over the past two decades scientifi...
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Bjork Shiley Prosthetic Heart Valve
277 wordsBjork-Shiley Heart Valve Bjork-Shiley Bjork-Shiley Heart Valve Essay, Research Paper Bjork-Shiley Heart Valve Ethics Response Ethics are defined as rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession. In the medical field, practices and procedures are monitored for ethical appropriation at all times. Ethics in the medical field in many cases have helped to harness the dangerous powers of the field, ensuring that the powers are not abused, and have also in many cas...
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