Dr. Thomas Addison 1795-1860
Agitating the Whole Medical World
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About the Book
Dr. Thomas Addison (1795–1860): Agitating the Whole Medical World presents Dr. Addison’s life story, considers his reception during his lifetime, and recognizes his profound contributions to modern medicine. Dr. Addison weathered five years of scorching criticism from peers for asserting that the adrenal glands were essential to life and that diseased adrenal glands could darken a white person’s skin to mulatto hues. History validated his discoveries, which led other investigators to isolate and identify epinephrine, the adrenocortical steroids, and even vitamin B12.
About the Author
Margaret R. O’Leary, MD, earned her medical degree in 1980 from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. She later earned her master of business administration in the executive MBA program for physicians and healthcare executives at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. She currently resides in Kansas.