08/29/2019
advancement in medicine have been rapid especially since world war 2. why?
the golden age of greece was in the 400's - BC. ie plato, aristotle, socrates.
Hippocrates was given credit for being the father of medicine, as he took it from perhaps a religious endeavor to a scientific one. but his colleague aristotle deserves a lot of credit. fast forward past galen another father of medicine especially anatomy around the year 100 to the rennaisance. the scientific method got implemented circa around the 1300's.
the modern university were coming into fruition; no one person officialy received credit, but at especially at the university, a theory would be proposed, a control and experiment would be done and a conclusion would be made. the germ theory of disease would be addressed in detail around the 1800's. initially robert koch and then louis pasteur deserve credit. once germs such as bacteria, virus, and protozoa were identified, then a cure was searched for. just short of 1900's, germans such as
paul ehrlich who worked at bayer, worked with dyes. fleming from scotland by accident discovered penicillin. after the outbreak of the 1918 flu epidemic research for prevention and treatment of flu began. note vaccines starterd as early as the late 1700's. world war 2 hastened the production of antibiotics to the soldiers. it also hastened innovations such as mash units, the start of iv treatments for treatments of hypovolemia ie after blood loss. it also led to innovations such as the cardiac bypass machine. the military hastened the emergence of specialists. There are many innovations and advances. these are made possible by adherance to the scientific method; the extreme urgency after tragedies such as war or flu epidemic;
and the abilitiy to share /collaborate - as isaac newton stated he was only able to discover as " stood on the shoulders of giants"
Scott Tushla, MD
Family Practice
2997 Broadmoor Valley Rd
Colorado Springs CO 80906
Office: 719-418-5505
advancement in medicine have been rapid especially since world war 2. why?
the golden age of greece was in the 400's - BC. ie plato, aristotle, socrates.
Hippocrates was given credit for being the father of medicine, as he took medicine from perhaps a religious endeavor to a scientific one. but his colleague aristotle deserves more of the credit. fast forward past galen another father of medicine especially anatomy around the year 100 to the rennaisance. the scientific method first proposed by Aristotle but not really put to task, got implemented circa around the 1300's.
the modern university was coming into fruition; no one person officialy owns the credit for the scientific method but it starts with a theory proposed, a control and experiment would be done and a conclusion would be made. ie either the proposal works or doesn't. ie trying to convert cheap metals into gold.the germ theory of disease would be addressed in detail around the 1800's. initially robert koch and then louis pasteur deserve credit. once germs such as bacteria, virus, and protozoa were identified, then a cure could be searched for. just short of 1900's, germans such as
paul ehrlich who worked at bayer, worked with dyes in the search for the magic bullet to kill germs. fleming from scotland by accident discovered penicillin. after the outbreak of the 1918 flu epidemic research for prevention and treatment of flu began. note vaccines starterd as early as the late 1700's as the Englishman Jenner discover the cow maids did not get small pox and he started injecting this into the population he put the first dent into viral preventatives. world war 2 hastened the production of antibiotics to the soldiers. it also hastened innovations such as mash units, the start of iv treatments for treatments of hypovolemia ie after blood loss. it also led to innovations such as the cardiac bypass machine. the military hastened the emergence of specialists. There are many innovations and advances. these are made possible by adherance to the scientific method; the extreme urgency after tragedies such as war or flu epidemic;
and the abilitiy to share /collaborate - as isaac newton stated he was only able to discover as " stood on the shoulders of giants"
Scott Tushla, MD
Family Practice
2997 Broadmoor Valley Rd
Colorado Springs CO 80906
Office: 719-418-5505
