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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, used here as a general reference for institutional and treatment history facts where a dedicated academic source was not available for this wave of research.

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Wikipedia contributors
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Wikimedia Foundation
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
2
Sources
Wikipedia
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Claims Backed By This Source (2,770 claims)

This source backs 2,770 claims across the atlas. As facts: 2,610 well-attested, 1 partially Attested, 20 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 13 holds, 24 connected, 1 critiqued Here, 1 held Differently. Plus 100 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Treatments, 1,770 claims: 1,660 well-attested, 1 partially Attested, 19 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 20 connected, 1 held Differently, 66 general references.
  • Sources, 758 claims: 758 well-attested.
  • Drugs and Medicinal Substances, 57 claims: 52 well-attested, 5 general references.
  • Conditions, 53 claims: 50 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
  • Articles, 44 claims: 21 well-attested, 23 general references.
  • Medical Institutions, 39 claims: 32 well-attested, 6 holds, 1 general references.
  • Healers, 17 claims: 10 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 1 connected, 1 critiqued Here, 1 general references.
  • Discoveries, 15 claims: 11 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 2 general references.
  • Medical Specialties, 10 claims: 10 well-attested.
  • Open Questions, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.

Well-attested

2,610

Articles

A Yard of Dacron, a Sewing Machine and the Surgeon Who Received His Own OperationBlood on Wheels: The Transfusion Unit Bethune Took to the FrontDeclaring War on Cancer in 1971From a Napkin to the Newborn Score: Virginia Apgar's Five SignsFrom Sewers and Water Pumps to a Science of PopulationsHow Sweden and Britain Made Physical Therapy a Profession Before the American Reconstruction AidesOne Name, Many Hands: How the Sushruta Samhita Was BuiltSurgery for the Five Billion Without AccessTea, Lemonade and the Argument Over What Counts as NursingThe Committee Seattle Trusted to Decide Who Got DialysisThe One Disease Vaccination Has Ever EliminatedThe Salvarsan War: What Followed Paul Ehrlich's Compound 606The Secret Program That Found ArtemisininThe Silesia Report, a Rejected Neanderthal and the Sausage Duel That Records Do Not ShowThe Three Waves of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Argument Over Its EvidenceTwo Places a Brachytherapy Seed Should Never Have Ended UpWhen Blood Transfusion Was Banned: From Sheep Blood to Blood BanksWhy Radiotherapy Is Given in Stages, Not One Dose

Conditions

Anal CancerAnencephalyBiliary FeverBlepharospasmBronchopulmonary DysplasiaBurkitt LymphomaCardiovascular DiseaseCervicitisCholangitisCroupCystitisElectrical InjuryEndometriosisEpendymomaForeign Body AspirationGastrointestinal Stromal TumorHepatomegalyHIV/AIDSKaposi's SarcomaLeukemiaLung CancerLymphadenopathyMcCune-Albright SyndromeMixed Connective Tissue DiseaseMuscular DystrophyMycetomaOsteogenesis ImperfectaPenile CancerPetechiaePolycystic Kidney DiseasePolymyositisPrimary Biliary Cholangitis

Showing 1 to 50 of 2,327 entities carrying this claim.

Partially Attested

1

Treatments

Orthognathic Surgery

Scholarly debate

20

Healers

Galen

Treatments

Acceptance and Commitment TherapyACE Inhibitor TherapyAntidepressant TherapyAntihypertensive TherapyAntiretroviral TherapyBlistering TherapyBlood TransfusionCAR T-Cell TherapyCognitive Behavioral TherapyHirudotherapyImmunosuppressive TherapyInsulin TherapyLaparoscopic SurgeryMercurial TherapyMoxibustionNephrectomyPhysical TherapyPurgative TherapyRadiotherapy

Holds

13

Discoveries

Vaccination

Healers

Andreas VesaliusEdward JennerGalen

Medical Institutions

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionJohns Hopkins MedicineMayo ClinicNational Health ServiceRed Cross MovementWorld Health Organization

Treatments

AnesthesiaOrgan TransplantationPhysical Therapy

Connected

24

Conditions

ArthritisAsthma

Discoveries

Discovery of Helicobacter pylori as a Cause of Peptic Ulcer Disease

Healers

Tu Youyou

Treatments

AppendectomyBone Marrow TransplantationBrachytherapyCardiac RehabilitationCholecystectomyCognitive Behavioral TherapyCoronary Artery Bypass GraftingEpidural AnesthesiaExchange TransfusionHemodialysisHysterectomyLocal AnesthesiaMammographic Breast Cancer ScreeningMastectomyMoxibustionOccupational TherapyPalliative CarePassive ImmunizationPercutaneous Coronary InterventionSpeech-Language Therapy

Critiqued Here

1

Healers

Andreas Vesalius

Held Differently

1

Treatments

Anesthesia

General References

100

Articles

A Yard of Dacron, a Sewing Machine and the Surgeon Who Received His Own OperationBlood on Wheels: The Transfusion Unit Bethune Took to the FrontDeclaring War on Cancer in 1971From a Napkin to the Newborn Score: Virginia Apgar's Five SignsFrom Sewers and Water Pumps to a Science of PopulationsHow Sweden and Britain Made Physical Therapy a Profession Before the American Reconstruction AidesOne Name, Many Hands: How the Sushruta Samhita Was BuiltSurgery for the Five Billion Without AccessTea, Lemonade and the Argument Over What Counts as NursingThe Salvarsan War: What Followed Paul Ehrlich's Compound 606The Secret Program That Found ArtemisininThe Silesia Report, a Rejected Neanderthal and the Sausage Duel That Records Do Not ShowThe Three Waves of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Argument Over Its EvidenceTwo Places a Brachytherapy Seed Should Never Have Ended UpWhen Blood Transfusion Was Banned: From Sheep Blood to Blood BanksWhy Radiotherapy Is Given in Stages, Not One Dose

Conditions

Ringworm

Discoveries

Isolation of HIVX-rays

Drugs and Medicinal Substances

AtenololCiclosporinIbuprofenLisinoprilSildenafil

Healers

Galen

Medical Institutions

Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital

Open Questions

When Did Couching for Cataracts Originate?

Treatments

ACE Inhibitor TherapyAdaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative TreatmentAntidepressant TherapyB52 (Medical Treatment)Banding (Medical)Bcr-Abl Tyrosine-Kinase InhibitorBlistering TherapyCAR T-Cell TherapyCardiac RehabilitationCatholicon (Electuary)CHOP (Chemotherapy)Chronotherapy (Sleep Phase)CMF (Chemotherapy)Cocooning (Immunization)Coding (Therapy)Coinduction (Anesthetics)COPP (Chemotherapy)Corneal Cross-LinkingCryosurgeryCupping TherapyDetoxification (Alternative Medicine)DHAP (Chemotherapy)Docking (Animal)

Showing 1 to 50 of 90 entities carrying this claim.

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