"honor of a Christian funeral at St. Luke's. The outlaws, however, did not reckon with the courage and determination of The Rev. Charles Duell, members of St. Luke's and the Masons, all of whom carried concealed weapons during the funeral. The funeral took place on May 13, 1892. In 1897, Dr. H.U. Onderdonk came to St. Luke's Parish as a lay reader. He studied for Holy Orders, and was ordained in 1900. Dr. Onderdonk served not only as physician and a clergyman, but also as a chemist, mathematician, nurse, and editor. The church hall, built in 1925, is named ""Onderdonk"
"1917, his close friend Dr. Walter G. Smith said:In sum, there have been greater and more illustrious physicians, but none who excelled, and few who equalled, James Little in gaining the esteem and affection of his friends and patients, and his memory will ever be cherished by all who knew him. He was, in truth, the ""beloved physician"", and his motto with his patients was:""Aegroto dum anima est, spes est."" In January 1922, six years after his death, a bronze plaque with a portrait in bas-relief was erected in the entrance Hall of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland"
"that he embodied are considered medical ideals. Fielding Garrison, an authority on medical history, stated, ""He is, above all, the exemplar of that flexible, critical, well-poised attitude of mind, ever on the lookout for sources of error, which is the very essence of the scientific spirit."" ""His figure... stands for all time as that of the ideal physician,"" according to ""A Short History of Medicine"", inspiring the medical profession since his death. ""The Travels of Sir John Mandeville"" reports (incorrectly) that Hippocrates was the ruler of the islands of ""Kos and Lango"" [sic], and recounts a legend about Hippocrates' daughter."
"Paul of Aegina Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (; Aegina, ) was a 7th-century Byzantine Greek physician best known for writing the medical encyclopedia ""Medical Compendium in Seven Books. ""He is the father of early medical books"""". For many years in the Byzantine Empire, this work contained the sum of all Western medical knowledge and was unrivaled in its accuracy and completeness. Nothing is known about his life, except that he was born in the island of Aegina, and that he travelled a good deal, visiting, among other places, Alexandria. He is sometimes called ""Iatrosophistes"" and ""Periodeutes"", a word"
"(BIUM). In his time, Galen's reputation as both physician and philosopher was legendary, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius describing him as ""Primum sane medicorum esse, philosophorum autem solum"" (first among doctors and unique among philosophers ""Praen 14: 660""). Other contemporary authors in the Greek world confirm this including Theodotus the Shoemaker, Athenaeus and Alexander of Aphrodisias. The 7th-century poet George of Pisida went so far as to refer to Christ as a second and neglected Galen. Galen continued to exert an important influence over the theory and practice of medicine until the mid-17th century in the Byzantine and Arabic worlds and"
"to garner citations. On a personal level, he was described as a compassionate physician who viewed the patient as a whole person, a superb diagnostician, a keen observer, a great teacher, a masterful lecturer, an absorbing storyteller, an avid reader, a literary writer, and above all, a kind-hearted, fair-minded person. In addition to medicine, he had many other hobbies, including gardening, all of the performing arts, politics, stamp collecting, and Philadelphia sports, especially the Phillies. Dr. DiGeorge loved all things ""Philly"" and all things Italian. He first learned the art of debate on the debate team at South Philadelphia High"
"Carl Rüedi Carl Rüedi (April 21 (or 23?), 1848 – June 17, 1901) was a Swiss pulmonologist and at his lifetime one of the best-known physicians in Graubünden. Rüedi rose to fame around the world after having treated the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in the winters of 1880-81 and 1881-82. Stevenson praised Rüedi in the dedication of his poetry collection ""Underwoods"" (1887) as """"the good genius of the English in his frosty mountains"""". Carl Rüedi was the youngest of eight children of the Graubünden district doctor and pioneer of climatotherapy Lucius Rüedi and his wife Rahel (née Conrad). Yet"
"decaying and unfit, mediaeval hospital of Santo Spirito in Saxia in Rome, between the Tiber and the Vatican City. He was one of the Italian pioneers in the use of the stethoscope - the common people often referred to him as “the physician who examines the sick with the trumpet” – of intravenous therapy and oxygen therapy. In particular, he became famous when administered oxygen to the Italian King Victor Emmanuel II, prolonging his life for a few days during his last illness (a severe pneumonia). He gave relevant contributions to the struggle against malaria which, at that time, was"
"Paul Zacchias Paul Zacchias or Paolo Zacchia (1584-1659) was an Italian physician, teacher of medical science, forensic medicine, medio-legal jurist, philosopher, and poet. He is said to have been personal physician to Pope Innocentius X and Pope Alexander VII. Zacchias was also legal adviser to the Rota Romana, the highest Papal court of appeals, and head of the medical system in the Papal States. His most well known book in three volumes, ""Quaestiones medico-legales"" (1621-1651) established legal medicine as a topic of study. Zacchias work also contains superstitious views on magic, witches, and demons which were widely held at the"
"the gods, and, as far as he was able, secretly joined me in their worship. I had entrusted with the care of my books, since he was the only one with me of many loyal comrades and friends, a certain physician who had been allowed to leave home with me because it was not known that he was my friend."" The physician is identified as Oribasius in the private correspondence of Julian. ""And this state of things caused me such alarm and I was so apprehensive about it, that though many of my friends really wished to visit me, I"
"the First physician of the King () Louis XIV. He married Susanna Jacobs and the couple moved to Leiden in 1668. There he held the Leiden University Medicine Chair where he was the Van Der Linden successor and the Boerhaave predecessor. He was several times the Rector of this University. His knowledge of ancient languages was important and he was a prominent Hippocratic and classic literatur scholar thereby gaining much recognition amongst the greatest figures of his age especially Pierre Bayle. In his lectures, Boerhaave praised him and used to call him ""nitidus incisor"". He died in Leiden in 1697"
"put it this way at the 1988 dedication of the new St. John's Rehabilitation Hospital in St. Louis: My father was a surgeon and on staff at the old Euclid Avenue St. John's [Hospital]. In 1912, the year before I was born, four siblings were struck by polio: a 12-year-old sister was mildly disabled, a 6-year-old brother very severely disabled, and two sisters, aged 3 and 9, died within days at St. John's. In their memory, my mother painted a mural on the ceiling of the St. John's chapel depicting them as angels. Sixteen years later, I watched my significantly"
"George Draper (physician) Dr. George Draper (May 21, 1880 – July 1, 1959) was an American physician. He was affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. Most famously known as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal doctor, Draper was also a well known constitutionalist and eugenicist. Draper was a key figure in developing a constitutional view of medicine during the 20th century. Constitutionalism was a movement in medicine away from the ""one size fits all diagnosis"" and towards re-introducing the individual into the medical diagnosis. Constitutionalist like Draper placed importance on aspects of a patient's constitution –"
"primary care later on. Dr. Clarke was a well-respected and popular physician among his patients. As he became more well-known, most of his patients were in the upper middle class. He also did many consultations by visiting patients at their homes. He was the epitome of a great physician, possessing numerous great qualities and was described as having an “inquiring, observant, reflective, and judicial” mind very suitable for medical practice. However, most of the records of Dr. Clarke’s patients were burnt since his death as he did not wish to disclose information about his patients to the public. He became"
"Paul feels there is still much to learn. He is accepted to a master's program in English literature at Stanford, and one afternoon—pushed by his desire to understand the meaning of life— discovers the calling to practice medicine for the first time. Preparing to apply to medical school, Paul uses the time off to study the history and philosophy of science and medicine at Cambridge. He later starts medical school at Yale. During his time at Yale, Paul meets his wife, Lucy, and sees the patient-doctor relationship as an example of life, death, and morality coming together. After two years"
"of the earliest popular works on medical science. So great was his zeal in encouraging patients to read the book that he earned the nickname """"Doctor My-Book"""". He taught that local diseases were frequently the results of disordered states of the digestive organs, and were to be treated by purging and attention to diet. As a lecturer he was exceedingly attractive, and his success in teaching was largely attributable to the persuasiveness with which he enunciated his views. It has been said, however, that the influence he exerted on those who attended his lectures was not beneficial in this respect,"
"Poltava. This led to his veneration in Russia, including the construction of St Sampson's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Sampson the Hospitable Sampson the Hospitable (, ; died 530 AD) was a citizen of Constantinople who devoted his time to serving the poor of the city. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches. Sampson was born in Rome to a prominent family. He was a physician who devoted much of his time to helping the poor and sick. He turned his home into a free clinic, providing his patients with food and lodging as well as medical care."
"Paul Tournier Paul Tournier (12 May 1898 – 7 October 1986) was a Swiss physician and author who had acquired a worldwide audience for his work in pastoral counseling. His ideas had a significant impact on the spiritual and psychosocial aspects of routine patient care, and he has been called the twentieth century's most famous Christian physician. Tournier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Pastor Louis Tournier and Alisabeth Ormond. His 70-year-old father, who was a highly respected clergyman at St. Peter's cathedral, died three months after his birth. At the age of six he was orphaned when"
"an affectionate guardian. When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1716 (he was in Holland before in 1697 to instruct himself in maritime affairs), he also took lessons from Boerhaave. Voltaire travelled to see him, as did Carl Linnaeus, who became a close friend. His reputation was not confined to Europe; a Chinese mandarin sent him a letter addressed to ""the illustrious Boerhaave, physician in Europe,"" and it reached him in due course. The operating theatre of the University of Leiden in which he once worked as an anatomist is now at the centre of a museum named after"
"personal charm, but among his intimates he could let his inner sense of fun have full play or talk with distinction on music or art. He was a good public speaker and an excellent committee-man. An authority on children's and nervous diseases, a great clinical instructor and possibly the ablest physician in the history of Australian medicine he was honoured and loved by the whole profession. The great immunologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet found him 'a man of much wisdom and immense charm', but with 'a waspish intolerance of stupidity'. Additional References as given by the Dictionary of Australian Biography: Additional"
"scholarly circles, both secular and religious. The New Testament mentions Luke briefly a few times, and the Pauline Epistle to the Colossians refers to him as a physician (from Greek for 'one who heals'); thus he is thought to have been both a physician and a disciple of Paul. Since the faith's early years, Christians have regarded him as a saint. He is believed to have been a martyr, reportedly having been hanged from an olive tree, though some believe otherwise. The Roman Catholic Church and other major denominations venerate him as Saint Luke the Evangelist and as a patron"
"the covering sheath underneath. Then I completely cut off the substance of the pipe, an area just less than the size of a tirmisah (lupine seed). Then, I kept washing the wound with water and honey till it healed and it (the animal) totally recovered and lived for a long time."" Ibn Abi Usaibia mentions these other works of Ibn Zuhr: The Jewish physician-philosopher Maimonides admired Ibn Zuhr, describing him as ""unique in his age and one of the great sages"". He frequently quoted him in his medical texts. Averroes praised him as the greatest physician since Galen. Both his"
"contemporaries generally added to his name the epithet ""the famous physician."" He corresponded on medical subjects with his teacher Isaac Cantarini, and he drew upon his medical knowledge in many passages of his work. He died deeply mourned by the community and his numerous pupils. No stone was erected on his grave, for half a year before his death the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery of Ferrara had been destroyed at the instigation of the clergy (Ferrara belonged to the Papal States), and the Jews were at the same time forbidden to place stones on the graves of their dead."
"possession of his preferments ""as much as the times would allow."" He bore the character of a learned man, and was an excellent master, being ""very fortunate in breeding up many wits."" It is also said that he ""had at the present [1638] above fourscore doctors in the two universities, and three learned faculties, all gratefully acknowledging their education under him"". The ""Tragical History of Piramus and Thisbe,"" one of Abraham Cowley's ""Poetical Blossoms"" (1633), is dedicated ""To the Right Worshipful, my very loving Master, Mr. Lambert Osbolston."" Another of his scholars was Thomas Randolph, who addressed to him a"
"tomb was shared by his wife on 21 February 1913. He was a very prolific writer. Some of his works are: Rudolf Virchow Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (; or ; 13 October 18215 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health. He is known as ""the father of modern pathology"" because his work helped to discredit humourism, bringing more science to medicine. He is also known as the founder of social medicine and veterinary pathology, and to his colleagues, the ""Pope of medicine"". Born and raised in"
"Rudolf Virchow Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (; or ; 13 October 18215 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health. He is known as ""the father of modern pathology"" because his work helped to discredit humourism, bringing more science to medicine. He is also known as the founder of social medicine and veterinary pathology, and to his colleagues, the ""Pope of medicine"". Born and raised in Schievelbein (Świdwin) as an only child of a working-class family, he proved to be a brilliant student. Dissuaded by his weak"
"a patient, and later martyred under the Emperor Diocletian, Cosmos and Damian appear in the heraldry of barber-surgeon companies. Notable contributors to the medical sciences of those early centuries include Tertullian (born A.D. 160), Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius and the learned St. Isidore of Seville (d. 636). St. Benedict of Nursia (480) emphasised medicine as an aid to the provision of hospitality. The martyr Saint Pantaleon was said to be physician to the Emperor Maximinianus, who sentenced him to death for his Christianity. Since the Middle Ages, Pantaleon has been considered a patron saint of physicians and midwives. The administration"
"as its consulting physician. He was a Governor of St. Peters College, an Honorary Surgeon of the Female Refuge, and a member of the Linnæan Society. He acted as a Judge at various Horticultural and Floricultural Shows. He was highly literate and owned a library considered one of the best in the colony. He had an extensive practice and was very popular among the poor, to whom he always displayed the greatest kindness and consideration. He married Luduvine Charlotte Jane Dutton (1833 – 14 May 1868) on 3 December 1851; their children included: He was in failing health the last"
"learning and acquaintance with his profession. They are in Dutch and Latin, and have been collected in ""Opera omnia medica et chirurgica"" (Amsterdam, 1672, 8 volumes), which was translated in Italian, German, French, and English. Paul Barbette Paul Barbette (5 February 1620, Strasbourg – 1666?, Amsterdam) was a celebrated Dutch physician. After finishing his medicine studies at Leiden University in 1645, he practised both medicine and surgery in Amsterdam. He was a determined enemy of bleeding in all cases, relying chiefly on sudorifics. He proposed the operation of gastrostomy in cases of intussusception of the bowels, and introduced some improvements"
"most widely known physician names of his time along with Lord Dawson of Penn and Lord Horder. He has been widely quoted as the ""last of the great physicians"". In a speech in 1958 he stated: """"Have you noticed how your patients watch you with an intensity rarely given, even to an actress? Every word you utter, every action you make has a special significance for good or ill, which carries an impression perhaps undreamed of. A sick patient is peculiarly sensitive to any word or action which is not completely sincere. The slightest suggestion of any insincerity can create"
"Draper was a known expert in polio, and personally attended to Roosevelt after his return from Campobello more than a month after the onset of his 1921 paralytic illness. Draper's focus in treatment was the psychological aspect. Besides Roosevelt, another one of Draper's clients was William O. Douglas, later a Supreme Court justice. Draper was married to the interior designer Dorothy Draper. George Draper (physician) Dr. George Draper (May 21, 1880 – July 1, 1959) was an American physician. He was affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. Most famously known as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's"
"than 3,000 medical students, who described him as ""the greatest living teacher of pathology"". He was a master of the American College of Physicians and served as its first vice president. He also served as editor of the Annals of Clinical Medicine (now the Annals of Internal Medicine). In 1930 he published a book ""The Creed of a Biologist: A Biologic Philosophy of Life. It he argues in favor of the theory, popular at the time, of the genetic transmission of acquired traits and extols the importance of using Eugenics for the protection and improvement of the race. The book"
"to the Pennsylvania convention which adopted the Federal constitution and was appointed treasurer of the United States Mint, serving from 1797–1813. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1788. He became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania in 1791, though the quality of his medicine was quite primitive even for the time: he advocated bloodletting for almost any illness, long after its practice had declined. He became a social activist, an abolitionist, and was the most well-known physician in America at the time of his death."