Category: W

A medical doctor who claimed in 1919 to have found a cure for a great variety of illnesses including cancer, tuberculosis, and leprosy. He was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1917 from the University of Michigan; in 1918 he received a degree in medicine from Wayne University. Koch taught histology and embryology at Michigan…

British physician and author of a famous book documenting his research on human AURAS. He was born on May 23, 1847, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, attended St. John’s College at Cambridge University, and pursued his medical studies at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London. In 1879 he was appointed head of electrotherapy at St.…

Outstanding philosopher and psychologist, who was also a pioneer in psychical research in the United States. James began his long and distinguished career following his graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1869. Two years later, he became an instructor in anatomy and physiology at Harvard College, where he was deeply involved in the emergence of…

An English physician principally remembered for his demonstration of the circulation of the blood and the action of the heart as a pump. He was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Padua, where he was greatly influenced by Fabricius. The conjoined problem of blood circulation and heart action puzzled him, as it had many…

A Berlin surgeon and an early associate of Sigmund FREUD who believed that there are two cycles that govern the behavior of living organisms: the 28-day female cycle and the 23-day male cycle. Some organisms, including humans, followed one or other of these cycles or some multiple of them: 46, 69 . . . or…

In a hazardous materials incident, the area between the hot zone and the cold zone, where decontamination occurs. Only specialized personnel who are appropriately dressed are permitted in this location.  

A species occurring in Southeast Asia and largely responsible for lymphangitis and elephantiasis in that region. It closely resembles W. bancrofti.  

A parasitic worm that is the causative agent of elephantiasis. Adults of the species live in human lymph nodes and ducts. Females give birth to sheathed microfilariae, which remain in internal organs during the day hut at night are in circulating blood, where they are sucked up by night-biting mosquitoes, in which they continue their…

A formal contract or plan established by a health care provider and a patient, specifying the manner in which certain forms of care will be delivered. Written treatment agreements are used most often in managing prescriptions for narcotic pain relievers. In that setting they are sometimes referred to colloquially as drug contracts.  

A flexible script that patients may use to guide their own outpatient therapy when they experience deterioration in a chronic health care condition.