Images the book "A Surgical Casebook" by Hanaoka Seishu (1760 - 1835)
the other day with Aloysius on the healing ability of Western medicine, high-tech at the same dehumanized confrontábamos such complexity compared to single therapeutic effect achieved well proportioned empathy in the relationship between doctors and patients. Then I remembered a story I heard long ago about a Japanese surgeon able to get fantastic results operating cases more complicated portal hypertension. This involvement of the venous system of the liver may present with severe complications from ascites (accumulation of fluid in the abdomen) to the specific involvement of the brain, through the development of esophageal varices, which if broken and bleeding, can cause the end of the life of a patient bled to death.
When the French surgeons were aware of the work of his Japanese counterpart, decided to invite him to Paris to learn his amazing surgical technique. The result was disastrous, as all patients operated by the Japan Medical died postoperatively. What failed?, is the technical ability or the patient? Due to its severity, the patients were similar to Paris the Japanese, not genetics. Would always be the question of whether the doctor had manipulated East the outcome of their work. The story ends with the once-renowned surgeon on a plane back to the kingdom of the rising sun and with the enthronement of Western medicine, with no positive results, he consoled himself with the loss of patients due to the course of the disease usually fatal natural.
Aloysius I remembered the story of another Japanese physician, Hanaoka Seishu, who lived somewhere between the eighteenth and XIX. He studied at Kyoto traditional Chinese medicine and surgery based on the teachings West. Following his training, he returned to his village and began to apply to their countrymen the knowledge gained in both branches of medicine. Its success is based on the use of an anesthetic administered to patients orally or call Mafutsusan Tsusensan , a highly toxic mixture of herbs which he prepared in the form of cooking.
While Dr. Seishu extracted without pain all types of tumors, some of them deeply embedded in the body of the sick, in the West began to bear first steps in experimenting with the anesthetic nitrous oxide, laughing gas famous employed in the funfair with chloroform, pioneering use the Scottish obstetrician James Y. Simpson, buried with honors from the head of state despite being charged with dozens of unhappy with this dangerous substance, or the Letheon discovered by the Boston dentist WTG Morton, simple grinding sulfuric ether, widespread use anesthetic surgery from 1846. The history of medicine also takes some injustices.
Dr. CW Long discovered the effects of ether sulfuric Morton 4 years before, but did not publish his results until 1849. For some, the gleam of glory, for others the ashes of oblivion.
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