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Plastic Surgery Guinea Pigs
1,422 wordsI have chosen to do my biographical assignment on Dr. Ross Tilley. I became interested in him when I heard about him at the summer camp I worked at this year. He used to own the property of Camp Hollyburn until he sold the property to my boss' father, Ted Yard Sr. Before camp started we had to learn about the camp, and his name came up repeatedly, My boss talked about how he used to bring war burn victims up to the camp to discuss their struggle with being burned and to get away from the busynes...
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Cosmetic Surgery Plastic Surgery
1,267 wordsPlastic Surgery, What Does it Say About Society? For many, the bikini season means one thing: anxiety over what can be done about a body that has surreptitiously expanded under a winter wardrobe of thick sweaters and black tights. This is also a season for fashion magazines to publish all the new plastic surgery developments for those unsatisfied with their bodies. Diets and rigorous exercise are the mainstream options. But for those with several thousand dollars to spend, plastic surgery can me...
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Nitrous Oxide Excruciating Pain
3,190 wordsDennis Brindell Fradin wrote in "We Have Conquered Pain": The Discovery of Anesthesia, "We take it for granted that we can sleep through operations without feeling any pain. But until about 150 years ago, the operating room was a virtual torture chamber because surgeons had no way to prevent the pain caused by their healing knives. " Fradin is right. Since several analyses of archaic human bones have proven that people have suffered from disease and pain since the beginning of their existence, o...
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19 Th Century Infectious Disease
1,670 wordsDiseases and illnesses have been present from the very earliest times, and medicine and cures have always been reliefs widely searched for. It was a long time however, before man acknowledged the ability to apply the appropriate medical treatment for certain diseases. This was due to the slow increase of knowledge of how the parts of the human body function. Before the great scientific discoveries and breakthroughs of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, medical procedures were very reliant upon natur...
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United States Army Army Of The Potomac
1,495 words"When the war began, the United States Army medical staff consisted of only the surgeon general, thirty surgeons, and eighty-three assistant surgeons. Of these, twenty-four resigned to "go South, " and three other assistant surgeons were promptly dropped for "disloyalty. " Thus the medical corps began its war service with only eighty seven men. When the war ended in 1865, more than eleven thousand doctors had served or were serving, many of these as acting assistant surgeons, un commissioned and...
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Three Or Four Civil War
1,524 words... loans fried. No wonder, then, that at sick call, shortly after reveille, many men who claimed to be sick were marched by the first sergeant to the regimental hospital, usually a wall tent. There the assistant surgeon examined them, then assigned some to cots in the hospital tent, instructed others to be sick in quarters, and restored a few to light duty or to full duty. The less sick and slightly wounded would be expected to nurse, clean, and feed the patients and to see to the disposal of b...
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Sanitary Commission Regular Army
1,469 words... West were spared battlefield relief scandals by the fact that major battles were fought on the banks of rivers, whence wounded arid sick could be evacuated by river boats to Mound City, Illinois, St. Louis, and other cities with general hospitals in the safety and secure supply of the North. After the relatively prompt fall of Memphis, that city became the site of several general hospitals. The evacuating boats, however, might I be maintained by individual states or by the United States Sani...
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Strong Minded Union Army
1,508 words... d vehicle. The staff, aside from the medical officers and hospital stewards, was mostly made up of the convalescents. They were frequently weak and weary, often snappish and irritable. They did not like the dirty work they performed. They wanted to go home. The surgeon-in-charge, as the hospital commander was titled, was often in a dilemma. If he returned the patient to his regiment too soon, the man might relapse or die on the road to his unit. If he tried to hold on to the man too long, he...
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American Red Cross Clara Barton
1,893 wordsMedical Care and Nursing in the US Civil War Introduction -The Civil War was horrific and bloodiest warfare. During the Civil War, medicinal knowledge was tremendously primordial. Doctors were not aware of seriousness of infection, and did not put much effort to prevent it. These issues created interest to know about cure of soldiers in battlefield. Thus the main objective of this paper is to focus on the treatment of wounded soldiers, their nursing and medicines used during civil war. Medical c...
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Catholic Church Elizabethan Times
1,297 wordsMedicine of Elizabethan Time? ? ? ? ? For a dog bite: ? Boil all together one spoonful of tin shavings, one drum of treacle, a handful of rice, and a quart of ale? (Curtis 318). Pouring oil on wounds was believed to heal them fast (Ramsey 2). Bizarre remedies like this represent the medical ideas of Elizabethan times. Such ideas could be explained by the respect people had for superstitions that existed. This is why medicine of the Elizabethan times was based on superstition and intuition rather...
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First Two Lines Emily Dickinson
3,094 wordsThe Description Of Pain In Emily Dickinson's Poetry In her description of pain, Emily Dickinson treats its effects on both the body and the soul. In poem 244, she presents a comparison between physical and psychological pain. According to poem 806, pain is a state through which the soul gets liberated from the body. The poet also describes the way Doctors struggle with pain and find themselves helpless in front of some kinds of it as in poems 177 and 396. Another phenomenon that is associated wi...
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Practice Medicine Long Hours
406 wordsOverview Surgeons treat and Surgeons Surgeons Overview Surgeons treat and repair injuries and diseases using surgery. A surgeon is a special type of physician. Work Setting Surgeons spend most of their time in offices, hospitals, and clinics, and are part of a team of surgeons who work together. Surgeons stand in one place for a long time while in the operating room. Unexpected problems may appear during surgery, and surgeons must stay calm and make sudden decisions. Surgeons often work long hou...
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