MEDICINE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

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MEDICINE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Lecture 6
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Lecture Plan

1. Development of Physiology.
2. Verification of the germ theory.
3. Discoveries in clinical medicine and anaesthesia.
4. Advances at the end of the century.

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DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY
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MEDICINE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

• By the beginning of the 19th century, the
  structure of the human body was almost fully
  known, due to new methods of microscopy and of
  injections. Even the body's microscopic structure
  was understood. But as important as anatomical
  knowledge was an understanding of physiological
  processes, which were rapidly being elucidated.

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MEDICINE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

• In Germany physiology became established as a
  distinct science under the guidance of Johannes
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