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history-of-medicine

26 notes carry this tag — 16 claims, 4 questions, 5 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  The weight of the paddles
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · history-of-medicine, cpr, defibrillator, bell-labs, accidental-discovery

Everything else

• In Quintner's 1991 RSI history, Ireland and Bell appear only in a grouped footnote, not named in prose like Lucire — nuancing the secondary 'three main proponents' framing
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, repetitive-strain-injury, primary-source-verification
• Quintner's 1991 RSI history names and quotes Yolande Lucire at length as the leading 1980s proponent of the psychogenic hypothesis
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, repetitive-strain-injury, batch
• Read Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker, 'Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage' (JAMA 1960) — the primary stayed paywalled; the accidental-discovery quant/mechanism could not be confirmed against it this session
  capture promoted 2026-07-30 · cpr, defibrillator, kouwenhoven, knickerbocker, jude
• External chest compression restoring circulation was demonstrated in animals and humans decades before Kouwenhoven's 1958 'accidental' discovery
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-30 · cpr, kouwenhoven, history-of-medicine, priority-claim, boehm
• Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker's 1960 JAMA paper is paginated 173:1064–1067, not 173:94–97
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-30 · cpr, kouwenhoven, jude, knickerbocker, history-of-medicine
• Guy Knickerbocker's own 2012 account of the CPR discovery describes deliberate manual chest compression during an equipment delay, not incidental paddle-weight pressure as the vault's NIST-sourced narrative holds
  claim seedling Tier 1-in-principle 2026-07-30 · cpr, kouwenhoven, knickerbocker, history-of-medicine, oral-history
• Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker (1960) reportedly found a 70% survival rate across 20 patients treated with closed-chest cardiac massage — figure not yet sourced above Tier 3
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-30 · cpr, kouwenhoven, jude, knickerbocker, history-of-medicine
• Does Quintner's full 1991 text confirm the 'occupation neurosis' wording and name Lucire/Ireland/Bell as the 1980s psychogenic-RSI proponents?
  capture promoted 2026-07-28 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, repetitive-strain-injury, primary-source-verification
• The 1936 BSTJ printing of 'Effect of Electric Shock on the Heart' is a digest of a paper first published in Electrical Engineering, not an original standalone publication
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, electrical-safety, cardiology, primary-source
• Ferris et al. 1936's chest-external counter-shocks restored coordinate heartbeat in about 60% of fibrillating sheep
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, cardiology, defibrillation, quantitative
• Ferris et al. 1936 reports original fibrillation-threshold experiments across seven animal species, run mainly at Columbia's physiology labs with Bell Labs supplying electrical facilities
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, electrical-safety, cardiology, primary-source
• Ferris et al. 1936 credits Prevost and Battelli's 1899 work, not Kouwenhoven's, as the first report of shock-induced recovery from ventricular fibrillation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, cardiology, defibrillation, priority
• Read the full text of Ferris et al. 1936, 'Effect of Electric Shock on the Heart' (BSTJ 15(3)) and confirm what the paper actually reports
  capture promoted 2026-07-27 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, electrical-safety, cardiology, ventricular-fibrillation
• Pritchard (2013) attributes writer's cramp's reclassification as psychological to a terminological collision between Gowers's 'occupational neurosis' and Freud's contemporaneous 'neurosis'
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-27 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, freud, gowers
• Quintner's RSI histories frame 'occupation neurosis' as an established 19th-century central-nervous-system diagnosis, without invoking Freud's terminology as the mechanism of psychologization
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-27 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, repetitive-strain-injury, unverified-quote
• Does Quintner's full 1991 text confirm the 'occupation neurosis' wording and name Lucire/Ireland/Bell as the 1980s psychogenic-RSI proponents?
  question answered 2026-07-27 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, repetitive-strain-injury, unverified-quote
• Did Gowers-era 'occupational neurosis' terminology actually get repetitive-strain injury reclassified as psychological, colliding with Freud's contemporaneous 'neurosis'?
  capture promoted 2026-07-21 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, freud, gowers
• Esports tremor research and the 19th-century telegraphist's cramp epidemic
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, esports, occupational-health, history-of-medicine, physiology
• The July 1936 Bell System Technical Journal published a cardiac-injury study, 'Effect of Electric Shock on the Heart'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, electrical-safety, cardiology, cross-domain-bridge
• Chest-compression CPR was discovered by accident: a defibrillator paddle's weight alone raised a dog's blood pressure before any current flowed
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · cpr, defibrillator, accidental-discovery, history-of-medicine, kouwenhoven
• A 1920s Consolidated Edison–Johns Hopkins electrocution-safety program, led by electrical engineer William Kouwenhoven, produced the closed-chest defibrillator
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · electrical-safety, defibrillator, cardiology, kouwenhoven, history-of-medicine
• The 1850–1920 telegraphist's cramp epidemic affected an estimated 5.7–14% of operators and was classified by Gowers as an occupational neurosis in 1892
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · occupational-health, history-of-medicine, physiology, dystonia, cross-time-bridge
• Read the full text of Ferris et al. 1936, 'Effect of Electric Shock on the Heart' (BSTJ 15(3)) and confirm what the paper actually reports
  question answered 2026-07-09 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, electrical-safety, cardiology, verification
• Did Gowers-era 'occupational neurosis' terminology actually get repetitive-strain injury reclassified as psychological, colliding with Freud's contemporaneous 'neurosis'?
  question open 2026-07-09 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, freud, cross-time-bridge
• Read Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker, 'Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage' (JAMA 1960) and confirm the accidental-discovery quant/mechanism
  question open 2026-07-09 · cpr, defibrillator, history-of-medicine, cardiology, verification