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John Ross, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Dr Mütter's Marvel; A true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine. Gotham, 2014)
online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-dr-mutters-marvels-by-cristin-okeefe-aptowicz-1409348263
Excerpt in the window of print: Lacking anesthesia, Mütter massaged his patients for hours before surgery in the hope of desensitizing them.
Note:
(1) The reviewer John M Ross DO, 47, practices family medicine at Orland Park, Illinois.
(a) Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Osteopathic_Medicine
(The practice of osteopathy began in the United States in 1874)
(b) Orland Park is a village just outside of Chicago.
(2) “Doctors still clung to the ancient dogmas of Hippocrates [c 460 – c 370 BC] and Galen, with grisly results.”
Galen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen
(129-c 200/216)
(3) “When [Thomas Dent] Mütter was born in 1811, he seemed to be a child of fortune. His mother was a bookish and beautiful product of Virginia's planter aristocracy, and his father was a well-to-do wheeler-dealer of Scottish stock. But both parents were tubercular and sickly, and their prosperity would prove illusory. By age 7, Mütter was an orphan. The son inherited his father's delicate lungs, restless ambition and debt-ridden estate.”
tubercular (adj): “of, relating to, or affected with tuberculosis <a tubercular patient>”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tubercular
(4) “After attending the young republic's premier medical school, the University of Pennsylvania, he went abroad to Paris, at that time the world's Mecca of medicine. French medicine was skeptical, progressive and cruel, combining Enlightenment rationality and medieval brutality. Paris had two hospitals devoted entirely to the care of syphilis, one of which required all patients to be publicly whipped before and after treatment. The city also had a renowned school of anatomy, which solved the problem of cadaver disposal by feeding the remains to a pack of ravenous mongrels 雜種狗.”
(5) “On the plus side, an American in Paris could watch technical wizards such as Roux, Lisfranc and Dupuytren at work in the operating theater.”
(a) Philibert Joseph Roux
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert_Joseph_Roux(1780-1854)
The French surname Roux: “from Old French rous ‘red’ (Latin russ(e)us)”
(b)
(i) Jacques Lisfranc de St Martin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lisfranc_de_St._Martin
(1790-1847; The Lisfranc joint and the Lisfranc fracture are named after him)
(ii) Lisfranc (Midfoot) Injury. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), undated
orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00162
(iii) The WSJ review states, "Jacques Lisfranc * * * is mainly remembered for describing a midfoot crush injury in a Napoleonic cavalryman who got his foot tangled in a stirrup while falling from his mount.”
The en.wikipedia.org says Dr Lisfranc “first described the injury in 1815, after the War of the Sixth Coalition” (1812-1814, resulting in Napoleon's exile on Elba).
(iv) French English dictionary
* lis (noun feminine): “Lily"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lis
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