Since The Art of Medicine began, doctors of all ages have been trying to improve it. They see their jobs more as fun, than they do as work. Who wouldn't enjoy saving a persons life everyday. Doctors have proved to us that they are able to cure, nearly, anything? By doing this, doctors have earned our respect along with a lot of money. Like in The Hippocratic Oath, written by Hippocrates, which all doctors must take "If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored by fame among all men for all the time to come, if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot" (1). Today the oath has been altered so that everyone can understand what he or she is agreeing to.
Doctors like Hippocrates, John Hunter, and Ambroise Pare are three of the most important people to the field of medicine. They have had the most influence and contributed the most by changing the way doctors do their work. .
Pare was born at Bourge-Hersent, near Laval. His formal education was sketchy, but he served as an apprentice to a barber-surgeon and learned on the battlefield as a surgeon in the French army (2). His first contribution to the field of medicine and to surgery came during the Siege of Turin (1536), when so many soldiers were shot that Pare ran out of oil to put on the gun shot wounds. Surgeons back then put hot oil on gunshot wounds because they thought that the gunpowder had poisoned the wounds, and must therefore undergo a cleansing with boiling oil. So Pare used his God given ingenuity by putting together a lotion that he would use on the soldiers that he did not put oil on. They were, to Pare, the experimental group. The lotion consisted of turpentine, oil of roses, and egg yolk. He would moisten a bandage in the lotion and then apply it on to the wound. The next morning Pare woke up early out of fear to check up on the patients that he had not cauterized (3) to see if they were feeling better or had been poisoned.
The first documented case of phantom limb pain was in 1551 by the French military surgeon Ambroise Paré. ... This phantom pain has been linked to disabled psychosocial dysfunction, sleep disorders and significant decreases in quality of life, (Csicseri, 2012). ...
