19th Century Medical Advances Expansion:
Original Presenters: John De-Souza, Matt Kinzer, Patrick
Biernat
I chose this presentation on a couple grounds. First, it was
presented very well and organized in a way that was easy to follow. The
speakers did a good job of finding information that was interesting and covered
it more deeply than the other groups. As well, the group was well prepared and
did not sit and stare at the screen or drone on about matters that are
ultimately boring and useless for our purposes (i.e. dates, minor details,
etc.). Secondly, I picked this because it seemed like an interesting topic with
many directions for research, there were many interesting people and devices
invented. All in all, it appears that many significant and pertinent advances
were made by the German people…
Thus, my expansion on the topic of 19th century
medical advances:
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Gottlieb Burckhardt
o
A Swiss born psychiatrist whose is regarded as
performing the first modern psychosurgical operation. Most of his studies/research
were conducted in Germany.
o
Conducted his studies at the Universities of
Basel, Gottingen and Berlin.
§
Doctorate was conferred at Basel
o
Continued studies at Basel and was granted
position of Privatdozent (lecturer)
§
Lectured on nervous and mental disease
§
Studies revolved around the nervous system and
treatment with electrotherapies.
o
Proposed many articles on the anatomy and
functionality of the brain.
o
He became appointed the title of Medical
Director in 1882
§
Performed various surgical procedures on
psychiatric patients and published findings.
·
One of the first into the field of psychosurgery
with an cortical operation on 6 patients.
o
He felt that disorders stemmed from ‘disordered
brains’ thus he sought surgery to correct this.
o
All but 2 of the patients suffered adverse
consequences but were notably more ‘quiet’
o
This stemmed from his view that it is better to
do something than nothing. Essentially, he denounced ‘bad’ procedures.
·
This was a primitive precursor to lobotomy procedures
and was Gottlieb’s last bit of research before his death.
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