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William Stewart Halsted was a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1894 Halsted…
MastectomySurgeryAsepsis and antisepsisBreast NeoplasmsBlood TransfusionIn 1953, Virginia Apgar published the article "A Proposal for a New Method for Evaluation of the Newborn Infant" about her method for scoring newborn…
LiteratureObstetricsAnesthesiologyCesarean SectionDelivery (Obstetrics)During the twentieth century, Austin Bradford Hill researched diseases and their causes in England and developed the Bradford Hill criteria, which…
EpidemiologyCervical CancerDiseasesCarcinoma, Squamous CellenvironmentIn 1894, William Stewart Halsted published The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital…
LiteratureJohns Hopkins HospitalBreast--CancerMastectomyMammectomyPercivall Pott was a physician in England during the eighteenth century who identified soot as the cause of chimney sweeps' scrotal cancer, later…
Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788CancerChimney sweepsPott Puffy TumorCarcinoma, Squamous Cell