Our own Rotarian Dr. Mhaskar spoke about history of Medicine in the weekly meeting of 20th Aug 2008.
His speech covered 2500 yrs of history of modern allopathic medicine. He started with Hippocrates and his famous oath. He explained its time tested applicability even in today’s medical practice.
He explained the development of common day instrument like stethoscope. He explained procedure and chemicals used for anesthesia. One really wonders how people in those days endured surgeries without it.
He lucidly explained the efforts taken by people like Dr Hunter to acquire knowledge of human anatomy. What they endured to get human bodies for dissections including grave digging and body snatching despite the risk of attracting wrath of the law in those days.
The topic is so interesting and vast, it possibly requires days to introduce volume of knowledge he gathered during his 45+ years of experience. He is writing a gr8 column in our weekly bulletin Satyam about it.
Rtn. Pramod
