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Jul 7, 2021 · The current consensus among historians of medicine is that we should neither conceive medical records as ‘unmediated records of experiences of illness and healing’ (Kassell 2016, 126) nor as disentangled from the medical encounter itself.
- Vanessa Rampton, Maria Böhmer, Anita Winkler
- 2021
Dec 31, 2014 · The use of radiation in medicine is now pervasive and routine. From their crude beginnings 100 years ago, diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy have all evolved into advanced techniques, and are regarded as essential tools across all branches and specialties of medicine.
- Mohamed Donya, Mark Radford, Ahmed ElGuindy, David Firmin, Magdi H. Yacoub
- 10.5339/gcsp.2014.57
- 2014
- 2014
Sep 17, 2015 · But not so long ago, a broken bone, a tumor, or a swallowed object could not be found without cutting a person open. Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, discovered X-rays in 1895—accidentally—while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass.
Medicine in the Middle Ages, 500CE to 1500CE - BBC Bitesize. Introduction to medieval medicine. Our understanding of medicine, and treatment of disease, has evolved over the centuries. In the...
Jan 1, 2011 · Radiation use in medicine continues to evolve after notable discoveries by Nobel Prize-winning scientists. It is difficult to envision 21st century medical practice without the ability to image vessels, bones, and soft tissue in virtually all aspects of the body.
- Amy B. Reed
- 2011
The first recorded victim was 15-year-old Hannah Greener of Newcastle in north-east England. On 28 January 1848, she was sent to surgeon Thomas Meggison for the removal of a toenail.
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Using Table 1, if we first consider the overall use of the X-ray for all patients, it was used only rarely in 1900, and for fewer than 10% of patients in 1909. By 1925 about a quarter of all patients admitted to the hospital had some sort of an X-ray examination performed.
