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Dr. William Mayo selected the site, with he and his sons touring hospitals for architectural concepts to best suit their vision. Mother Alfred raised $40.000, and supervised the construction. Initially named St. Mary's Hospital when it opened in 1889, [3] it would eventually become part of the Mayo Clinic after the latter's founding in 1892.
William James Mayo (June 29, 1861 – July 28, 1939) was a physician and surgeon in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo , both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota , US, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s.
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Edward O. Thorp) Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together with Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy; Leona Chalmers (c. 1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup
Russell Morse Wilder Sr. (November 24, 1885 – December 16, 1959) [1] was an American physician, diabetologist, epileptologist, and medical researcher, known as one of the originators of the ketogenic ("classic keto") diet as a therapy for both epilepsy [2] [3] and diabetes.
Jean Lee may refer to: Jean Lee (aircraftwoman) (born 1924), Canadian aircraftwoman; Jean Lee (murderer) (1919–1951), Australian murderer, and the last woman to be hanged in Australia; Jean Lee (archer) (1925–2010), American archer; Jean H. Lee, Korean-American journalist
Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. [2] Gestational diabetes generally results in few symptoms; [2] however, obesity increases the rate of pre-eclampsia, cesarean sections, and embryo macrosomia, as well as gestational diabetes. [2]
Charles Mayo's wife was Edith Graham, of Rochester, MN, whom he married in 1893. He belonged to the Episcopal church, and was a Freemason and member of Rochester Lodge #21 of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota, AF&AM, a Knight Templar, Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a Kiwanis, and was active in numerous other professional, civic and social clubs.
The Mayo Clinic Diet is a diet book first published in 1949 by the Mayo Clinic's committee on dietetics as the Mayo Clinic Diet Manual. [1] Prior to this, use of the term "diet" was generally connected to fad diets with no association to the clinic.