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The Christian contribution to the many specialist branches
of medicine is huge. There is only room to mention a few, such as Laennec, a
Catholic, who invented the stethoscope. The emerging practice of orthopedics
was much enhanced by the Lutheran Rosenstein's textbook on the subject, while
the devout Underwood's Treatise on the Diseases of Children became a classic.
Still's disease was named after George Still of King's College Hospital and
Great Ormond Street Hospital, who was a Lutheran and a vigorous supporter of
Barnardo's homes. In the field of dermatology, Willan (who wrote a history of
Christ) was the first to classify skin diseases, while many Christian
clergymen-physicians such as Blackmore, Willis and Fox were pioneers in the of
advance of psychiatry. In the USA Daniel Drake, an Episcopalian, was among the
first to study geographical pathology, and WH Welch of the Johns Hopkins, was
an outstanding Christian pathologist who discovered the bacillus of gas
gangrene. JY Simpson, Howard Kelly and Ephraim McDowell, all devout believers,
were towering figures in obstetrics and gynecology. Whilst most medical
advances and discoveries have taken place in hospitals, numerous general
practitioners such as Sydenham, James Mackenzie and Clement Gunn worked tirelessly
in day-to-day practice, striving to embody the ideals of Christianity in their
ethics and care of their patients.
Isa 55:9 For
as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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