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The high popularity of sterilization continued into the 60s and 70s, during which the Puerto Rican government made the procedures available for free and reduced fees. [197] The effects of the sterilization and contraception campaigns of the 1900s in Puerto Rico are still felt in Puerto Rican cultural history today.
In 1886, Ernst von Bergmann introduced heat sterilization of surgical instruments, which marked the beginning of aseptic surgery and significantly reduced the frequency of infections. Conrad Brunner did extensive research into wound management and experimentation with wound disinfection methods, publishing his comprehensive Erfahrungen und ...
Indiana became the first state to enact sterilization legislation in 1907, [40] followed closely by Washington, California, and Connecticut in 1909. [41] [42] [43] Sterilization rates across the country were relatively low (California being the sole exception) until the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v.
At critical points in American history the public health movement focused on different priorities. When epidemics or pandemics took place the movement focused on minimizing the disaster, as well as sponsoring long-term statistical and scientific research into finding ways to cure or prevent such dangerous diseases as smallpox, malaria, cholera.
1800. The Royal College of Surgeons of England was founded. 1805. Astley Cooper pioneered ligation of arteries. 1842. Crawford Williamson Long pioneered ether for anesthesia. 1844. Horace Wells pioneered nitrous oxide for anesthesia. 1848. James Young Simpson pioneered chloroform for anesthesia. 1851. Antonius Mathijsen invented the Plaster of ...
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Harry Clay Sharp (1870–1940) was an American medical doctor and eugenicist.While working as a physician at an Indiana state prison around the turn of the 20th century, Sharp performed some of the first vasectomies for the purposes of sterilization, and helped popularize the procedure as an alternative to castration.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobb decision, which overturned Roe v.Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to have an abortion, many are reconsidering their birth control and pregnancy ...