1816 what was happening in the medical field ???

Question

I have to know what was happening in the medical field besides the stethoscope. I need websites or if you know personally what was happening. I can't find anything!!!!

Answer 1

According to: (about 2/3 of the way down the page)
http://www.answers.com/topic/1816#everyday_life

"Physiologist François Magendie [b. Bordeaux, France, October 6, 1783, d. Seine-et-Oise, France, October 7, 1855] writes Précis élémentaire de physiologie ("an elementary summary of physiology" -- two volumes with volume 2 published in 1817), a textbook on physiology that introduces the importance of nitrogen in the diet and explains such processes as swallowing and vomiting. "

According to:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1985/presentation-speech.html

Cholesterol was named in 1816, though it was called cholesterine.

According to:
http://www.healthandhealingny.org/complement/herbal_medicine.html

"One the first examples of this was in 1816 when Friedrich Wilhelm Serturner, a young German apothecary, was able to isolate morphine — a wonderful pain killer from the opium plant (Papaver somniferum) which had been used for centuries in China , Europe and Persia."

Answer 2

* David Brewster discovers stress birefringence