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unusual facts about Western medicine



Hirotsu Ryurō

His father had been trained as a doctor, and was in Nagasaki studying western medicine at the time of the Meiji Restoration.

Skene's gland

While the glands were first described by the French surgeon Alphonse Guérin (1816-1895), they were named after the Scottish gynaecologist Alexander Skene, who wrote about it in Western medical literature.

Tianjin Medical University

TMU includes eight departments involved in 15 specialties such as Clinical Medicine, Anesthesiology etc. but also Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine and Medical Humanities.


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Clara Swain

Although there had been indigenous resistance to Western medicine and religion in India, the mission had successfully procured an estate from the Nawab of Rampur, on which to expand medical facilities.

Cosmetic pharmacology

Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, has argued that western medicine stands on the brink of a neuro-enhancement revolution in which people will be able to improve their memory and attention through pharmacological means.

Macau University of Science and Technology

The hospital is in the Cotai area of Macau and has major interests in Western medicine and Chinese traditional medicine.

Qian Chunqi

Qian entered Anhui Medical University in 1940, majoring in Western medicine, where he graduated in 1946.

Samuel-Auguste Tissot

The authority with which the work was subsequently treated — Tissot's arguments were even acknowledged and echoed by luminaries such as Kant and Voltaire — arguably turned the perception of masturbation in Western medicine over the next two centuries into that of a debilitating illness.