The Living History of Medicine

Dr Patrick Treacy

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781398406506
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

The history of medicine is a living one and involves much more than reflecting on the battles that have been won or lost in the ever-changing struggle against disease. The living history really lies within man himself and too often the human side of this story is neglected. As doctors, we have been trained to focus on the signs of disease and consequently, we pay little attention to the people who discovered them. When we read in our pathology texts about the interesting triad of defects in an illness such as Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, we tend to forget about the doctors who faced great personal hardships to bring us the information we now use to treat the disorder.Dr Treacy is recognised as one of the most influential aesthetic practitioners in the world. He was awarded 'Top Aesthetic Practitioner in the World' (2019) and 'Doctor of the Year' UK & Ireland (2019). In this fascinating book, he takes us on a journey with Osler's famed 'Goddess of Medicine' and explains how she is continually on the move, fleeing from battles, tyranny, and oppression, seeking to find a home where man can have study pathology in peace. She has moved from Edinburgh to Dublin, from London to Vienna, from Berlin to Maryland, then onwards to California to guide doctors in the wonders of new technologies, translating the genetic blueprint, manipulating defects in the data code of our existence and help us all fight the more complex diseases like the coronaviruses of the new millennium.

Table of contents

• The Living History of Medicine
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Foreword
• Introduction
• “The Law of Hippocrates”
• “The 1700s”
• “The Irishman Who Walked from Edinburgh to London”
• “The Scottish Surgeon who fought at Waterloo”
• “The Poor Village Boy Who Earned a King’s Ransom”
• “The Scottish Surgeon who fought at Vinegar Hill”
• “The Introspective Physician”
• “The English Doctor who joined The Royal Navy”
• “The Irish Doctor Who Painted with J. M. W. Turner”
• “The English Doctor who was Humanitarian”
• “The French Doctor who befriended Victor Hugo”
• “The 1800s”
• “The Trinity Professor Who Made Dublin Renowned”
• “The Scot Who Tried to Find the Source of the Nile”
• “The Greatest Scientist of the Nineteenth Century”
• “The Italian Who Stained the Nervous System”
• “The German Chemist who discovered the cause of Anthrax in his flat”
• “The Russian who discovered leucocytes with the branch of a Christmas tree”
• “The German Who Found the Cure for Syphilis”
• “The Australian who Discovered the Cause of Brucellosis”
• “The English Doctor who discovered the cause of Malaria”
• 1846
• “The Dutchman who invented the ECG”
• “The Doctor who befriended the Shah of Persia”
• “The Psychiatrist who found Romance in Algiers”
• “The Scot who discovered the cause of Leishmaniasis”
• “On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, 1867”
• “The Irishman who discovered the cause of Donovanosis”
• “The Frenchman who discovered the cause of Typhus”
• “The Austrian who discovered Human Blood Groups”
• “The Austrian Monk who discovered Genes”
• “The US Surgeon who won the Pulitzer Prize”
• “The Belgian who discovered the Immune System”
• “The Aland Doctor who discovered Clotting Factors”
• “The New York Doctor who almost discovered Vitamins”
• “The Austrian Doctor who fled the Concentration Camps”
• “The Irish Surgeon Who Fought in the Great War”
• “The Australian Doctor who experienced Chlorine Gas in the Great War”
• “The Texan Cowboy Who Discovered Oncogenic Viruses”
• “The French Doctor who joined the Resistance”
• “The Scottish Doctor who discovered Penicillin”
• “Japanese Village Surgeon”
• “The German Doctor who became a Nazi”
• “The Greek Doctor Who Never Took a Holiday”
• “The Bavarian Doctor who first reported CJD”
• “The New Yorkers who found the first anti-fungal drug”
• “The American Surgeon Who Treated Gershwin and Trotsky”
• “The American Doctor who fought in Greece”
• “The Russian who found the cure for Tuberculosis”
• “The Turkish Doctor who fled from the Greeks”
• “The Canadian Doctor who discovered the cause of Diabetes”
• “The German Nazi Doctor who discovered the world’s first antibiotic”
• “Pioneers of the First Blue Baby Operation”
• “The Black Alabaman who Synthesised Cortisone”
• “The Aussie who Disputed the Theory of Antibody Production”
• “The American Recluse who believed that Genes move on Chromosomes”
• “The German who discovered Cardiac Catherisation”
• “The Malagan Who Discovered How DNA Is Synthesised”
• “The German Pianist who recognised the power of Penicillin”
• “The Russian Refugee who discovered the Polio Vaccine”
• “The American Inventor of Apgar Score”
• “The ‘Mad’ Scot who invented the Ultrasound”
• “The English Toff who cracked the Structure of Molecules”
• “The Northern Irish Doctor who discovered an African Tumour”
• “The Tale of Two Munich Students”
• “The Australian Doctor who discovered Reye’s Syndrome”
• “The Englishman who found the molecule of Life”
• “The American who helped develop Aesthetic Lasers”
• “The American who discovered Signalling Factors”
• “The Englishman who invented the CAT Scanner”
• “The Texan who pioneered Heart Transplants”
• “The Preacher’s Son who performed the World’s First Heart Transplant Operation”
• “The New Yorker who discovered the Hepatitis B virus”
• “The Englishman Who Created The First Test Tube Baby”
• “The Swiss who discovered Restriction Enzymes”
• “The Algerian Who Developed Safer Liposuction”
• “The Frenchman Who Required Ronald Regan and François Mitterrand to Settle an Argument About the Discovery Of HIV”
• ‘The Englishman who discovered that human cells can be reprogrammed’
• ‘The Japanese researcher who showed that mature cells can be reprogrammed into stem cells’
• “The New Yorker who helped discover the Hepatitis C virus”
• “The New Yorker who invented the MRI Scanner”
• “The German who discovered the Post Codes of Life”
• “The Indian who invented the CO2 Laser”
• “The American Scientist who invented Artificial Skin”
• “The Irish-American who mapped the Brain’s SatNav system”
• “The American who discovered Prions as the cause of Mad Cow Disease”
• “The New Yorker who implanted the first Artificial Heart”
• “The Englishman Who Discovered How to Copy Mammals”
• “The American who deciphered the Book of Life”
• “The American who directed the Human Genome Project”
• “The German Couple who may have saved the World”
• ‘The English vaccinologists who faced the new Disease X from Wuhan, China’
• Catherine Green
• “The American who taught our immune system how to fight cancer”
• “The Armenian who discovered the skin receptors for temperature and touch”
• “The Important Influence of Baghdad on the Development of Western Medicine”
• References
• References for Islamic Medicine