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In Philadelphia, the Medical College of Philadelphia was founded in 1765, and became affiliated with the university in 1791. In New York, the medical department of King's College was established in 1767, and in 1770, awarded the first American M.D. degree.
1095 – Congregation of the Antonines, was founded to treat victims of "St. Anthony's fire" a skin disease. [17] Late 11th or early 12th century – Trotula [31] 1123 – St Bartholomew's Hospital founded by the court jester Rahere Augustine nuns originally cared for the patients.
The four brothers who took ownership of the business after Henry A. Brooks were Daniel Hamilton Brooks, John Brooks, Elisha Brooks, and Edward Brooks. [1] With the death of the founder Henry Sands Brooks, Henry's four sons decided to change the company's name from H. & D.H. Brooks & Co. to Brooks Brothers. The decision for the name change is ...
Fermat and Pascal co-founded probability theory, about which Huygens wrote the first book Projective geometry: Girard Desargues [183] (founder) By generalizing the use of vanishing points to include the case when these are infinitely far away Set theory: Georg Cantor: Statistics (modern) Ronald A. Fisher [184] [185] [186] Tensor calculus
The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate (in 1892) being Sun Yat-sen, who later led the Chinese Revolution (1911). The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was the forerunner of the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, which started in 1911.
All human societies have medical beliefs - birth, death, disease and cures are explained in some manner. Historically, throughout the history of medicine world illness has often been attributed to witchcraft, demons or the will of the gods, ideas that still retain some power, even in 'modern' societies, with faith healing and shrines still common.
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Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) — Belgian anatomist, often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy; Vidus Vidius (1508–1569) — first professor of medicine at the College Royal and author of medical texts; Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) — German pathologist, founder of fields of comparative pathology and cellular pathology