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  • The precursor of the NLM was the Library of the Surgeon General's ... The Library of the Surgeon General’s Office was established in 1836 ...
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  • she served in the American Civil War as a surgeon, became a prisoner of war ... degree, she served as the first female surgeon in the U. S. Army while ...
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  • In 1739, he entered the Navy as a surgeon's mate, serving in ... By 1747, he had become Surgeon of HMS Salisbury in the Channel Fleet ...
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  • John Warren, Joseph's younger brother, served as a surgeon during the Battle of Bunker Hill and the rest of the war and then later founded ...
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  • who after having the idea rejected several times by the Surgeon General, persuaded the new incumbent—Brig. Gen. William H. Forwood—to adopt ...
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  • ===The "Surgeon's Photograph"=== One of the most famous images of Nessie is known as the “Surgeon’s ...
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  • at the University of Glasgow, qualifying as a surgeon. His career in medicine came second to his literary ambitions, and in 1739 he went to London ...
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  • ===Physician and surgeon=== The combined term "physician and surgeon" is used to describe ...
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  • includes those who work as a physician, surgeon, nurse, physiotherapist ... and specialist surgeons, surgical PAs, surgeon's assistant, assistant ...
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  • Richard Browne, his surgeon at Panama, said that Morgan came to Jamaica ... been his confidante, probably as a barber-surgeon, in a Dutch volume entitled ...
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  • In 1777, he became surgeon-general of the middle department of the ... later a Confederate States of America surgeon charged with improving sanitary ...
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  • However, his father, an eminent barber surgeon who served as valet and ... "Georg Handel (1622-97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric ...
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  • She had dreamed of one day becoming a surgeon. Sadly, that was not to happen, as Blackwell contracted purulent ophthalma from a baby she was ...
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  • as an apprentice to John Ludlow, a surgeon, for eight years from the ... a successful general practitioner and surgeon, practicing in purpose-built ...
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  • He also practiced surgery, serving as surgeon to King Louis XV and his ... of Paris. In 1723, he became royal surgeon, entering in the service ...
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  • Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Described by a Surgeon." Roman Catholic Books, 1993. ISBN 978912141046 * Chadwick, Henry, The Church ...
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  • for a letter to help him to an opening as a surgeon's assistant on board an African trader. On August 24, 1770, he retired for the last time ...
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  • He became an outstanding thoracic surgeon. Between 1929 and 1936, ... of Toronto, and re-enlisted as a surgeon in the British navy, spending ...
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  • removed Keats from his old school to make him a surgeon's apprentice. In 1814, after a fight with his master, Keats left his apprenticeship and ...
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  • Office of the Surgeon General, Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon ... * Office of the Surgeon General. Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon ...
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  • Court of Minnesota determined that "the surgeon should have obtained consent before performing surgery on the opposite ear" (Bazzano et al ...
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  • quot; (Gilbreth's term) to a surgeon, by handing surgical instruments to the surgeon as called for. Gilbreth also devised the standard techniques ...
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  • of 14, taking up an apprenticeship with a surgeon named Thomas Anderson in ... a doctor, having also fully qualified as a surgeon in 1799. In 1893, however ...
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  • the sailing master, master's mates, surgeon, boatswain, purser, and ... * Thomas Huggan, Surgeon D * William Cole, Boatswain * Charles Churchill ...
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  • vitamin A deficiency. In 1747 the Scottish surgeon James Lind discovered that ... In 1881, Russian surgeon Nikolai Lunin fed mice on an artificial mixture ...
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  • * Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), a surgeon. * Margaret Neville Keynes (1890-1974), who married Archibald Hill (winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for ...
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  • in the human body led him to consider becoming a surgeon. ... Clinic (1875), a renowned Philadelphia surgeon, Dr. Samuel D. Gross, is ...
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  • In 1858, Dr. Frederick A. Rose, an assistant-surgeon in the British Navy, was recognized for his kindness and humanity to sick American seamen ...
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  • Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793 - 1875) was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder, and prototypical British gentleman scientist ...
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  • html Lost skeleton of `barber-surgeon' found in museum] British ... In 1938 he discovered the famous barber surgeon of Avebury skeleton in the ...
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  • Mental health, as defined by the U.S. Surgeon General's Report ... state and local health departments. The Surgeon General-led United States ...
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  • the vocal effects of castration without the surgeon's knife. Javier Medina is an example of this type of high male voice. Others, like Michael ...
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  • " "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's Daughter." *The Keepsake Stories (1828). Collection of three short stories: ...
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  • to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler; Chief Surgeon of the Staff of the Reich ... | Chief Surgeon of the Surgical Clinic in Berlin; Surgical Adviser ...
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  • Wilfred Trotter, a famous surgeon at University College Hospital, London, wrote along similar lines in his famous book Instincts of the Herd ...
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  • Office of the Surgeon General, Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon ... * Office of the Surgeon General. Facing Addiction in America: The ...
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  • removed to a wildlife sanctuary or veterinary surgeon for rehabilitation. Likewise, when an adult kangaroo is injured in a collision, a vet, the RSPCA ...
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  • with a star. Dampier and his associate, the surgeon and buccaneer Lionel Wafer describe the Miskito peoples in the period 1690-1700. These tribal ...
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  • in varying degrees. A workshop headed by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop ... According to Surgeon General Koop, "Although the evidence may ...
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  • years, then placed as an assistant to a barber-surgeon, where his duties allowed him to observe and learn the rudiments of the medical arts. Probably ...
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  • indeed there came hither a certain Lombard...surgeon, who spread abroad in these parts the most incredible blasphemies about the court of Rome and our ...
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  • English Royal Artillery surgeon, Henry Veale, observed an outbreak in India. He coined the euphonious name "rubella" (from the Latin ...
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  • tomb of Scribonia Attice, wife of physician-surgeon M. Ulpius Amerimnus, details a childbirth scene. Scribonia was a midwife and the relief shows ...
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  • the Battle of Stony Point in 1779. Military surgeon Absalom Baird removed the broken fragmants of his skull and replaced them with a steel plate ...
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  • to Paris, where he obtained the appointment of surgeon to the guards and accompanied the duke of Gramont to war. He attended the duke at the Battle of ...
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  • workers quickly alerted Doctor C. K. Hoffman, a surgeon and fossil-hunter in the Dutch city of Maastricht, although rights of ownership lay with a canon ...
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  • " Dr. Boris Shimeliovich (a former Chief Surgeon of the Red Army and Director of Botkin Hospital), Miron Vovsi (Stalin's personal physician ...
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  • executed. This was because Ji Ben, a former royal surgeon, had participated in Dong Cheng's assassination plot on Cao Cao (this assassination attempt ...
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  • Mada to intervene and arrange for the royal surgeon to murder the king while pretending to perform an operation. Jayanegara’s stepmother, Gayatri ...
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  • Altar and Table: A phenomenology of the surgeon-priest] Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 81(4) (December 2008): 193–198. Retrieved April ...
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  • 27, 1730, the son of a midwife and a barber-surgeon. He began to study philosophy and theology at the age of sixteen, and later changed to law, ...
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  • * Leopold Saverio Vaccaro, (honorary degree recipient), noted surgeon ==Notes== ==References== * Baldassarri, Mario and Pierluigi Ciocca (eds ...
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  • The American doctor Crawford Williamson Long, M.D., was the first surgeon to use it as a general anesthetic, on March 30, 1842.John W. Hill and ...
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  • and his valet, later unmasked by the ship's surgeon as Jeanne Baré, Commerçon's mistress; she would become the first woman to circumnavigate ...
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  • of John Zephaniah Holwell, a one-time military surgeon and top East India Company civil servant. Desertions by allied troops, mainly Dutch, made even ...
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  • 20ka.htm "Mahadevi's Surgeon: Resistance and Compassion ... 20ka.htm "Mahadevi's Surgeon: Resistance and Compassion ...
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  • Office of the Surgeon General, Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon ... * Office of the Surgeon General. Facing Addiction in America: The ...
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  • Philippe Berthelot, a dental surgeon, as a "personal adviser." Because he was 66 years old, Berthelot could not be appointed as a ...
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  • Named after the American surgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing, who first described the condition in 1932, Cushing's syndrome is relatively rare. Only ...
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  • Adams. Samuel Adams, Jr. held an appointment as surgeon in Washington's army. He died in 1788. His government claims provided enough for Adams ...
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  • In India, the surgeon Sushruta described numerous surgical operations ... of modern dentistry." His book, The Surgeon Dentist: A Treatise on Teeth ...
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  • manner of death. Ambroise Paré, a French army surgeon, systematically studied the effects of violent death on internal organs. Two Italian surgeons ...
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  • for dental decay. His book, The Surgeon Dentist: A Treatise on Teeth, was the first to describe a comprehensive system for dentistry practice ...
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  • States has a high level of indoor radon. The U.S. Surgeon General and EPA recommend that all homes be tested for radon. Since 1985, millions of homes ...
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  • himself had escaped poverty by becoming first a surgeon and later a physician, was determined to make his son a doctor. Ramón y Cajal attended the medical ...
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  • Sinatra flew Louis to Houston to have famous heart surgeon Michael DeBakey perform surgery. Later, Louis suffered a stroke, and a year later his heart ...
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  • At age 14, Poisson was placed in the care of an uncle who was a surgeon, in the hope that he would take up medicine as a career. Royal Society ...
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  • Al-Zawahiri was a surgeon by profession, who graduated from Cairo ... Mohammed Rabie became a surgeon and a professor of pharmacy[https://edition ...
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  • into forbidden secrets. The loss of the surgeon's hand that caused ... paid for to half his value; a veterinary surgeon who caused the death of ...
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  • Roman, and Islamic sources. In 77 C.E., the Greek surgeon Dioscorides published De Materia Medica, a catalog of about 600 plants found in the Mediterranean ...
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  • Riesman (1867 – 1940), was a German-born American surgeon and professor. He is remembered for describing a clinical sign found in patients with Graves ...
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  • Fraser Darrell Waters (1892-1967), a London surgeon, with whom she had been friends. They married October 20, 1943, and she subsequently changed the ...
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  • 1885), born in Abbeville, physician, served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, professor at Atlanta Medical College ...
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  • of the Greek Ionian Islands. He was the son of Surgeon-major Charles Hearn (of King's County, Ireland), who had been stationed in Lefkada during ...
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  • There, Dr. Walter Dandy, the foremost brain surgeon in the country at that time, diagnosed Wolfe with tuberculosis of the brain. An attempt to operate ...
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  • * Salvatore Manzella, surgeon * Lorenzo Marabitti, sculptor * Filipo Pennino, sculptor * Son of a king of Tunis who had converted to Catholicism ...
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  • bacteria. In 1871, Joseph Lister, an English surgeon and the father of modern antisepsis, described that urine samples contaminated with mold did not ...
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  • 150px|James Lind, a British Royal Navy surgeon who, in 1747, noted that ... physician James Lind, a ship's surgeon in the British Royal Navy ...
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  • and neurology in the office of the surgeon general in Washington, D.C. From 1972 to 1983, Peck was engaged in the private practice of psychiatry ...
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  • His father was an impoverished apothecary-surgeon and came from an old family ... and adventure. He was the son of a surgeon who presented himself as ...
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  • Vimukthi Kumaratunga (born 1982) is a Veterinary Surgeon University of Bristol, UK. ==Legacy== Kumaratunga rise to power in the context of Asia ...
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  • He received training as a surgeon with the Hapsburg armies, where he had an opportunity to study the treatment of wounds. At that time it was ...
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  • of the offender from the joint of the wrist by a surgeon. For robbery, the right hand of the offender from the wrist and his left foot from the ankle ...
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  • Dr. Larivière in Madame Bovary, was a surgeon in practice at Rouen; his mother was from some of the oldest Norman families. Flaubert was educated ...
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  • though they may be referred to neurologists or a surgeon (neurosurgeons or orthopedic surgeons). Sleep disorders are also treated by pulmonologists ...
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  • Hill, and is named after a nineteenth century Surgeon-Superintendent of the General Infirmary. It is composed of Precambrian metamorphic rocks belonging ...
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  • to Europe by William Montgomerie, a Scottish surgeon in the service of the British East India Company. Twenty years earlier, he had seen whips made ...
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  • The formation of Unit 731 traces to 1932, when Surgeon General Shirō ... In 1932, Surgeon General Shirō Ishii|石井四郎|Ishii Shirō ...
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  • that worthy, eminent, and learned Surgeon and Naturalist, David Livingstone, LL.D., to be an Honorary Fellow" 1857: Medal awarded by the ...
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  • Sickles had recent knowledge of a new directive from the Army Surgeon General to collect and forward "specimens of morbid anatomy… together ...
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  • office where he was tended by the assistant post surgeon at the post, Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy. Crazy Horse died late that night. ...
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  • was the first child of Dr. Fitzwilliam Sargent, a surgeon from an old New England family, and Mary Newbold Singer, the daughter of a Philadelphia merchant. ...
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  • a heart attack; however, Dr. Charles Sawyer, the surgeon general, who was traveling with the presidential party, did not make this diagnosis. Upon Sawyer ...
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  • the hip. His condition was so grave that the surgeon sent his severed leg along with Hood in the ambulance, assuming that they would be buried together ...
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  • CMCH Act Amendments of 1975.Office of the Surgeon General, Mental Health: ... * Office of the Surgeon General. Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon ...
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  • World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships, better known as Gulliver's Travels. In 1726 he ...
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  • My Way, did not enter a second drama series, The Surgeon, because it missed the screening deadline. "If I'd known it was this flexible, of ...
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  • Joseph-Henri Toussaint, a Toulouse veterinary surgeon, to create the anthrax vaccine (Loir 1938; Cohn 2004). Pasteur did a public test in 1882, based ...
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  • [[File:C. Everett Koop on the day of his confirmation as Surgeon General (QQBBQB) noframe.jpg|thumb|400px|Hatch with Surgeon General of the United ...
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  • Rhonda Cornum, then a major and flight surgeon, and now a colonel and Command ... von Weymarn accomplished the grade "Surgeon General of the Air Force ...
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