John A. McCrae John McCrae was a Canadian poet John McCrae. He served in the Canadian forces as a medical officer in both the Boer War and World War I. A year after the beginning of World War One, he published a poem in the famous “Punch Magazine”, the only work, by which he would become famous. McCrae was born in McCrae House in Ontario, the grandson of Scottish immigrants. He attended to the well-known Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute and soon became a member of the Guelph militia regiment.
Over the years series of eponyms have been associated with The Osteogenesis imperfecta syndrome the terms “OI Comgenita” and “OI Tarda” (David Rowe, Jay Shapiro) where introduced by Losser in 1906 to indicated the age of beginning of fractures and to suggest the severity of the disease. The disease is also known as Vrolik's syndrome because the first type symptoms were recorded in 1842 by Professor Willem Vrolik, Professor of Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy and Zoology at the University of Amsterdam. Professor Vrolik described in his Handbook of Pathological Anatomy (1842-1844), and a newborn infant with numerous fractures and hydrocephalus (1844-1849) (Baljet) . According to Baljet Vrolik also mentioned that the infant lived three days and that both the parents were suffering from lues universalis at the time of birth (Baljet). In the more modern history The first Case of Osteogenesis imperfecta is credited to the french philosopher Malebranche in 1674 who reported a subject who “appeared like a man broken on a wheel” (David Rowe, Jay Shapiro).
These outstanding men were just two of the many contributors to neurosurgery. The education requirements for being a neurosurgeon vary. The first step you must complete is getting a four year degree, a bachelor’s in science. A major that upcoming neurosurgeons would most likely major in pre-med associated with sciences like biology, physics, or chemistry. The next step is to complete four years of graduate school in a highly recognized medical school, and get your medical doctorate degree.
He contracted malaria and within twelve months had to be discharged from the service and was sent back to Spain. He received his doctorate from the University of Madrid in 1877, and became professor of anatomy the same year. It was at this time he began the histological studies that made him famous. He married Silveria Fanañás in 1880; together they had four sons and four daughters. Ramón y Cajal, trained to become a highly competent microscopist and histologist.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcameronDE.htm 1. Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Scotland in 1901. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1924. He began his career as resident surgeon at Glasgow Infirmary, but in 1929 moved to Canada to work in the Brandon Mental Hospital. In 1936, Cameron became Director of Research at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, and in 1938 was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Albany State Medical School.
After finishing his high school, he entered the University of Toronto in 1913 to study general B.A. After two years he took a break from his studies. He served two years as a medical orderly in a military hospital in Salonika. In 1917 he requested a transfer. He returned to the University of Toronto to finish his B.A.
In 1921, Robeson married Eslanda Cardozo Goode, who was the first black analytical chemist at Columbia Medical Center. Their marriage lasted forty-four years until Eslanda’s death in 1965. After practicing law for a time, Robeson became a stage actor and in 1924 starred in two Eugene O’Neill plays:
Freud entered the University of Vienna at age 17. He originally wanted to study law, he eventually changed his major and started studying Medicine. He studied philosophy, physiology, and zoology, He graduated in 1881 and in the beginning of 1882 he started work at Vienna General Hospital were he studied the cerebral anatomy. He studied aphasia which led to first book On the Aphasias: a Critical Study, which would go on to be published in 1891. Freud eventually resigned from his position he held in the hospital and started studying nervous disorders.
Walter reed 1851-1902 A native of Virginia, Walter Reed (1851–1902) received his medical education at Bellevue Medical School in New York, worked as a district physician in Brooklyn, and then joined the U.S. Army, providing basic medical services in many parts of the frontier West. Attracted by the new science of bacteriology, he was sent by the army to study with William Henry Welch at Johns Hopkins University, and was later appointed professor of bacteriology in the Army Medical School in Washington, DC in 1893. He chaired the U.S. Army typhoid fever commission of 1899, in which he, Victor C. Vaughan, and Edward O. Shakespeare established the importance of the asymptomatic typhoid carrier. While working on this commission, he was assigned to
Excerpts from the Journal of Ignaz Semmelweis: A Misunderstood Observer in Medicine This is my first entry into my new journal. My name is Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis. The date is July 1st of the year 1846. I have just been appointed as assistant to Professor Johan Klein at the Vienna General Hospital. [i] I will be working in the First Obstetrical Clinic, where I will be supervising difficult births, teaching students obstetrics and trying to record my findings for future use by other doctors.