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An amended history of tissue culture: Concerning Harrison, Burrows, Mall, and Carrel

Ambrose, Charles T·2019·Journal of Medical Biography
DOI 10.1177/0967772016685033
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The origin of tissue culture is commonly dated to 1907 and credited to Ross Harrison at Hopkins Medical School. But an unpublished letter from the 1942 offers a different interpretation and gives priority to Montrose Burrows with important contributions for the development of cell culture by Franklin Mall at Hopkins and Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City. The early development of tissue culture is reviewed and its applications in modern biology and medicine are briefly outlined.

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  1. Corner GW. A history of the Rockefeller Institute 1901–1953, origins and growth, New York City: The Rockefeller Institute Press, 1964, pp. 160–160.
  2. Mall established the Department of Embryology in the Carnegie Institute of Washington at Hopkins, 1914–1917. He revolutionized teaching gross anatomy courses by including embryology and histology. He helped found three journals: the American Journal of Anatomy , the Anatomical Record , and the Journal of Morphology . See Osler W. Obituary: Franklin Paine Mall. The Lancet 1917; 1: 841.
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  4. Rubin LP, 1977, Clio Medica, 12, 33
  5. Samuel Meltzer was a German-trained physiologist who studied the mechanism of swallowing. He originated intra-tracheal insufflation, which is employed in general anesthesia, allowing intrathoracic surgery. Three years before the discovery of insulin by Banting and Best in 1922, Metzler prepared a pancreatic extract which lowered blood sugar in experimental diabetes but did not pursue this finding, Corner GW. A History of the Rockefeller Institute 1901–1953, origins and growth, 1964, pp.117–120.
  6. Burrows MT, 1922, Kansas University Science Bulletin, 14, 475
  7. Carrel A. Man, the unknown. New York: Halcyon House 1935 . This book was widely read in America and translated into 20 languages. In it Carrel proposed that countries could be governed best by an ‘iatocracy’ – a specially educated cadre of physician rulers. This work became controversial because it touched on eugenics and euthanasia and, as some asserted, had fascist overtones. A reviewer in 1988 wrote, ‘It strikes the modern reader as a potpourri of contradictory data and strongly ideological statements on the nature of man.’ See Moulin AM. Alexis Carrel. L’Ouverture de l’homme. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1988; 62: 505-506. Three works of Carrel were published posthumously – Prayer in 1948, and Voyage to Lourdes in 1950, and Reflections on Life in 1952.
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  10. Cushing H, 1940, The life of Sir William Osler

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Authors
Ambrose, C. T.
Affiliations
University of Kentucky (US)
Corresponding author
Ambrose, Charles T
ORCID
Ambrose, Charles T
Venue
Journal of Medical Biography
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2017-01-16
Volume
27
Issue
2
Pages
95-102
ISSN
  • 0967-7720 (ISSN-L)
  • 1758-1087
DOI
10.1177/0967772016685033
OpenAlex
W2575539979
Semantic Scholar
1db5c86228e39580d8a1c0424ac2a19e923b995e
Cited by
17
References
18
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
FWCI
8.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Medical Biography (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UKnowledge (University of Kentucky) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Johns Hopkins University
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › History of Science and Medicine
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medical History and Innovations
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Historical Medical Research and Treatments
Keywords
cell culture, Alexis Carrel, Rockefeller Institute, scientific priority, history of biology
MeSH terms
Germany, New York City, United States, Baltimore, Tissue Culture Techniques, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century

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