Famous patients Famous patients Adolf Wölfli ( 1864 - 1930) (occasionally spelt Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a prolific Swiss artist who is regarded as one of the foremost artists in the Art Brut or outsider art traditions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adolf Wölfli"
Andrew Stimpson (born 1980 in Largs, Scotland) is a Scottish man who tested negative for HIV fourteen months after an initial test returned a positive result. While there have been anecdotal reports from Africa of people fighting off the virus, Stimpson's case was the first to have been medically tested. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrew Stimpson"
Anna O. ( 27 February 1859 - 28 May 1936) was the pseudonym used for Bertha Pappenheim by physician and physiologist Josef Breuer in his book " Studies on Hysteria", written in collaboration with Sigmund Freud. Her sister, Marie Pappenheim, as a medical student, wrote the libretto, depicting a woman's mental breakdown, for Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna O."
Barney Clark was a retired Seattle dentist who was the first recipient of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. Clark was 61 years old and had heart disease. He donated himself for scientific experimentation. The operation was performed on December 1, 1982 by Dr. William C. DeVries at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. The transplant itself was successful, though Clark lived for only 112 days. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barney Clark"
Candace Elizabeth Newmaker ( November 19 1988— April 19 1999) was a victim of child abuse who was tortured to death during a 70-minute rebirthing session to overcome reactive attachment disorder. ...more on Wikipedia about "Candace Newmaker"
David Joseph Vetter III ( September 21, 1971– February 22, 1984) was a boy from Houston, Texas who suffered from a rare genetic disease now known as Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Forced to live in a sterile environment, he became popular with the media as the boy in the plastic bubble. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Vetter"
Eileen Saxon was an infant known as "The Blue Baby", because of a condition called blue baby syndrome caused by lack of oxygen in the blood. This made her lips and fingers turn blue, with the rest of her skin having a very faint blue tinge. She could only take a few steps before beginning to breathe heavily. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eileen Saxon"
Emma Eckstein ( 1865 - 1924) was an early patient of Sigmund Freud who underwent disastrous nasal surgery, undertaken by Freud's friend and confidant, Wilhelm Fliess. She came from a prominent socialist family and was active in the Viennese women's movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emma Eckstein"
Genie is a name used for a feral child discovered by California authorities on November 4 1970 in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia. Her real name remains classified, though it has been speculated that her name is Susan Wiley, though this claim has been unconfirmed. She was born in April of 1957 and was the fourth (and second surviving) child to unstable parents. Her mother was partially blind due to cataracts and a detached retina, and her father (who was 20 years the mother's senior) was mentally unbalanced on account of depression over his mother's death from a hit-and-run accident. ...more on Wikipedia about "Genie (feral child)"
Harold R. McCluskey was a chemical operator at the Hanford nuclear weapons plant located in Washington state who is known for having survived exposure to the highest dose of americium radiation ever recorded in 1976. He became known as the Atomic Man. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harold McCluskey"
Henrietta Lacks ( 1920– 1951) was the involuntary donor of cells from a cancerous tumor, which were cultured by George Gey to create a cell line for medical research, which is now known as the HeLa cell line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henrietta Lacks"
A memory impaired patient known as HM (a pseudonym used to keep his identity confidential) has been widely studied since the late 1950s and has been very important in the development of theories that explain the link between brain function and memory, and in the development of cognitive neuropsychology, a branch of psychology that studies brain injury to infer normal psychological function. ...more on Wikipedia about "HM (patient)"
The index case or patient zero is the initial patient in the population sample of an epidemiological investigation. Patient zero is a somewhat less specific term than index case and is sometimes used to refer to the central patient in an epidemiological investigation rather than the first patient. When used in general to refer to such patients in epidemiological investigations, the term is not capitalized. When the term is used to refer to a specific person in place of that person's name within a report on a specific investigation, the term is capitalized as Patient Zero. Often scientists search for the index case to determine how the disease spread and what reservoir holds the disease in between outbreaks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Index case"
James Phipps (1788-1853), as an eight year old boy, was the first person given the cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Phipps"
James Tilly Matthews was a London tea merchant with republican sympathies who became embroiled in a self-styled peace mission between France and England in 1793. He became ignored, then jailed, by the French. He returned to England to warn the Prime Minister that teams of "magnetic spies" had infiltrated England and were preparing to use 'air looms' (a type of mind control machine that used " animal magnetism" and mesmerism) to overthrow the government. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Tilly Matthews"
Jeanna Giese is the first person known to have survived symptomatic rabies without receiving the rabies vaccine. She is only the sixth person known to have survived rabies after the onset of symptoms; the other survivors were vaccinated before symptoms developed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeanna Giese"
Jerrick De Leon is the name of a baby who became the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch. Jerrick was born 13 weeks premature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jerrick De Leon"
Jesse Sullivan is best-known for operating a fully robotic limb through a nerve-muscle graft, which perhaps makes him the first non-fictional cyborg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jesse Sullivan"
Joseph Meister (c. 1876 - 1940) was saved as a boy from rabies by Louis Pasteur and later served as a caretaker at the Pasteur Institute. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joseph Meister"
Lina Medina (born September 27 1933 in Paurange, Peru) gave birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days and is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history. This world record is closely followed by a similar case in Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lina Medina"
Louis Washkansky ( 1913 – 21 December 1967) was the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louis Washkansky" Everybody should like http://www.shortopedia.com
Mary Mallon ( September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), also known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish immigrant who was the first known healthy carrier of typhoid in the United States. She contracted a mild case of typhoid fever but was never cured, so she spread the disease to others. Having no particular job skills she obtained employment in private homes around New York City, eventually obtaining the relatively well-paid position of household cook. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mary Mallon"
Phineas P. Gage ( 1823 - May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction worker who suffered an unusual kind of traumatic brain injury which inflicted severe damage to parts of his frontal brain during a work accident. Gage reportedly had significant changes in personality and temperament, which provided some of the first evidence that specific parts of the brain, particularly the frontal lobes, might be involved in specific psychological processes dealing with emotion, personality and problem solving. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phineas Gage"
The Rat Man was a pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to one of his patients, Ernst Lanzer ( 1878— 1914), to protect his anonymity when his case study was published. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rat Man"
Robert Tools ( July 31 1942 - November 30 2001), was the world's first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart. The operation took place on July 2, 2001. He survived for 151 days without a living heart. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Tools" Be happy with www.shortopedia.com
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