Father of pathology
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
1821 - 1902
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow was among the greatest minds in medicine in the 19th century. As a result of his hard work and determination, great strides were made in the fields of pathological and physiological medicine. Virchow was born in Schivelbein, Pomeranian, Prussia on October 13, 1821. He attended Friederich Wilheim Institute where he studied to become a physician with a passion for pathological histology.
Throughout his studies, Rudolf Virchow also performed a plethora of research disproving that phlebitis was the cause of most diseases. Once he graduated from Friederich Wilheim Institute, Virchow went on to study at the University of Berlin where he became a medical doctor in 1843 .
He was employed as an intern at Charite Hospital in Berlin but was suspended on March 31, 1849 due to his liberal view of the German government. He was championed as the founder of cellular pathology because of his extensive research that disease is created and reproduced at the cellular level of the body. However, he did not accept Pasteur's germ theory, and in later life devoted himself to archaeology and anthropology, forming a close friendship with Schliemann and collaborating in the excavation of Troy.
Rudolf Virchow was not only a brilliant physician and researcher but he was a father and husband as well. In 1850 he married Rose Mayer and throughout their marriage they became parents of 6 children, three sons and three daughters .
Rudolf Virchow was always busy attempting to better the lives of the German people. Even at the time of his death on September 5, 1902 in Berlin, Rudolf Virchow was still serving on committees and counsels and working diligently as editor of journals in medical education . He was constantly working to provide quality health care to his patients and fighting for the their rights with the German Government
born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, in the region of Jura, France. His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease", is one of the most important in medical history.
His work became the foundation for the science of microbiology, and a cornerstone of modern medicine.
Pasteur's phenomenal contributions to microbiology and medicine can be summarized as follows. First, he championed changes in hospital practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes. Second, he discovered that weakened forms of a microbe could be used as an immunization against more virulent forms of the microbe. Third, Pasteur found that rabies was transmitted by agents so small they could not be seen under a microscope, thus revealing the world of viruses. As a result he developed techniques to vaccinate dogs against rabies, and to treat humans bitten by rabid dogs. And fourth, Pasteur developed "pasteurization", a process by which harmful microbes in perishable food products are destroyed using heat, without destroying the food.
Louis Pasteur discovered the method for the attenuation of virulent microorganisms that is the basis of vaccination. He developed vaccines against chicken cholera, anthrax and swine erysipelas. After mastering his method of vaccination, he applied this concept to rabies. On July 6, 1885, Pasteur tested his pioneering rabies treatment on man for the first time : the young Joseph Meister was saved.
Carl Rokitansky (1804 – 1878)
Investigation of the pathology of the CNS lesions continued throughout the 19th century, with developments in microscope technology allowing the analysis to become increasingly detailed.
This slide shows a portrait of Carl Rokitansky, one of the most outstanding morphological pathologists of the 19th century. Working at the Institute of Pathology in Vienna,
he was one of the first to examine MS lesions microscopically .
Rokitansky made a particularly important observation
in 1857 when he noticed 'fatty corpuscles' in the MS lesions. Charcot later described these as:
"the wreck and detritus resulting from the disintegration of the nerve-tubes
Penicillin researchers (c1940)
During the 1950s, James Gowans revealed the life cycle of the lymphocyte, whose role was at that time completely obscure. Gowans showed that the small lymphocyte continuously recirculated from the blood to the lymph and back again to the blood. He later demonstrated that this cell was at the centre of the immunological response.
James Gowans
History of the Microscope
The Development of the Microscope
(Janssen / circa 1590’s)
Although the original microscope was a rather simple device, its ability to magnify the range of human vision paved the way for a revolutionary discovery of microbial life. Credit for the initial device has historically been given to a Dutch craftsman, Zacharias Janssen, working in the Netherlands late in the 16th century as a spectacle maker. These tradesmen, considered to be the world’s finest, had been using concave lenses for more than a century to correct far-sightedness. Janssen subsequently extrapolated this approach to visual amplification by creatively attaching two such lenses at opposite ends of hand-held tube. Janssen’s device was unquestionably primitive, but the microscope (from Greek words meaning "to see small"), would shortly reveal a hitherto unimagined realm of life.
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From ancient times, man has wanted to see things far smaller than could be perceived with the naked eye.
This led to the construction, in the 16th century, of a magnifier composed of a single convex lens, and this, in turn, led to the eventual development of the microscope
Perhaps the most famous early pioneers in the history of the microscope are Digges of England and Hans and Zcharias Janssen of Holland
But it was Antony van Leeuwenhoek who became the first man to make and use a real microscope.
Leeuwenhoek ground and polished a small glass ball into a lens with a magnification of 270X, and used this lens to make the world's first practical microscope
Because it had only one lens, Leeuwenhoek's microscope is now referred to as a single-lens microscope. Its convex glass lens was attached to a metal holder and was focused using screws.
After his historic invention, Leeuwenhoek continued to devote himself to studies base on the microscope. His discoveries included bacteria, bellanimalcules and spermatoza. Leeuwenhoek actually constructed a total of 400 microscopes during his prolific lifetime
The magnification ratio of a single-lens microscope like the one invented by Leeuwenhoek is calculated in the same way as calculations are made for a simple magnifying glass.
250mm--accepted to be the distance of most distinct vision--is divided by the length of the lens.
To increase the power of a single-lens microscope, the focal length has to be reduced. However, a reduction in focal length necessitates a reduction of the lens diameter, and after a point, the lens becomes difficult to see through
To solve this problem, the compound microscope system was invented in the seventeenth century. This type of microscope incorporates more than one lens so that the image magnified by one lens can be further magnified by another
day, the term "microscope" is generally used to refer to this type of compound microscop
in the compound microscope, the lens closer to the object to be viewed is refers to as the "objective", while the lens closer to the eye is called the "eyepiece"
Since its invention, the compound microscope has made tremendous contributions to the progress of science. Using a compound microscope that he had built himself, the 17th-century Englishman Robert Hooke discovered the fact that living things are composed of cells
n the medical world, Louis Pasteur of France used a compound microscope to discover yeast fungus, while Karl J. Ebert, a German bacteriologist, employed a compound microscope in his discovery of Eberthella Thyphosa
It was also a compound microscope that Robert Koch discover tubercle and cholera bacilli
The 19th century saw dramatic progress in the development of the microscope, thanks to the contributions of such great minds as Carl Zeiss, who devoted significant effort to the manufacture of microscopes, Ernst Abbe, who carried out a theoretical study of optical principles, and Otto Schott, who conducted research on optical glass
Avicenna [985-1037]
Avicenna, b. 980, Bukhara, Iran d. 1037, Hamadan Arabic IBN SINA, in full ABU 'ALI AL-HUSAYN IBN 'ABD ALLAH IBN SINA, Iranian physician, the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of Islam. He was particularly noted for his contributions in the fields of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine.
He composed the Kitab ash-shifa' ("Book of Healing"), a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and the Canon of Medicine, which is among the most famous books in the history of medicine.
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Nicolas Flamel [1330-1418] Geber [14th century]
Basil Valentine [supposed 15th cent.] The 12 Keys Georg Agricola [1494-1555] Paracelsus [1493-1541] Jacob Bohmen [1575 - 16?] Valentin Weigel >[1533-1588]
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Robert Boyle [1626-1691] Isaac Newton [1642 -1727] Count Cagliostro [1743-1795]
Count de Saint Germain [18th Century]
Demosthenes - The Alchemist God Alexandre Saint Yves d'Alveydre - Archeometre [19th Century]
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SOME GENERAL DEFINITION PATHOLOGY The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases therefore pathology will not mean autopsy but other as biopsy of tissue to know what is going on , cytology as papsmears in one word anything that will be seen under microscope after tissue removal [surgery] is part of the pathology. Agood surgeon should be a good pathologist in understanding the disease and pathway.
DISEASE: any departure from a state of health ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY: tissues and organs CLINICAL PATHOLOGY: blood and other body fluids FORENSIC PATHOLOGY: the application of the science and methods of pathology to the resolution of problems of the law and issues of public interest
do you think a biopsy or FNA is needed Thyroid wasn't even described in scientific literature until in 1656 Thomas Wharton made a distinction between it and the larynx, but for 200 more years its function (regulation of the body's metabolism) was completely unknown. Goiters are excessive enlargements of the thyroid, which may be caused by iodine deficiency, or by an excess of thyroid stimulating hormone. Because we salt everything with iodized salt, iodine deficiency is never a problem in America, but it is elsewhere in the world. 
Below from http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/abtus/ourorg/me/define.htm I think it is a good historical and good definition on the subject The term Coroner has been in use in England since about the year 900. It derives from the term coruner (root word corona, Latin for crown, "officer of the crown", meaning worked for the King). The position of Coroner has evolved over the centuries as a public official responsible for the investigation and certification of cause and manner of cases of sudden and unnatural death. Much of American law derives from the English system and the office of the Coroner has remained in use in the United States to date. The use of the office of the Coroner varies widely throughout the U.S. Some are elected positions, others are appointed. Many are open to lay persons, others require that the Coroner be a physician, and a few require that the Coroner be a forensic pathologist. In the State of Washington, law directs that the investigation of sudden and unnatural deaths take place within the 39 county jurisdictions. The system varies from county to county. The counties that are smallest by population have the elected Prosecuting Attorney also serve as Coroner. In most of the medium sized counties, the Coroner is a separate elected office. In Washington there is no requirement for the Coroner to be a physician. Currently (as of 1999), six Washington counties have Medical Examiners rather than Coroners (Clark, King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, and Whatcom). Five of the counties (Clark, King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Spokane) have forensic pathologists serving as the Medical examiner.
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AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY 1-the legal or forensic autopsy, destined to investigate the the death in cases of violence or presumed violence;2-the verification of the cause of death, performed in cases of non violent death without medical accompaniment and3-the hospital autopsy, performed by pathologists in hospitalized patients who died of natural causesThe autopsy goal is not only to
identify the cause of death, as many may think, but it has several other
functions:
AUTOPSY REPORTS & THEIR INTERPRETATION
The typical autopsy report is a two-pane sheet which looks like the following:
INTERPRETATION The anatomic patologists performs microscopic exams including surgical pathology and frozen sections , cytopathology , electron microscopy (400/year), children's autopsy and adults' autopsy .
MEDICOLEGAL SCENE INVESTIGATION
1) rigor mortis:
2) livor mortis:(discoloration)
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DEATH CERTIFICATION
suicide or murder
