Benjamin Marten (original) (raw)
Benjamín Marten fue un médico inglés autor en 1719 de un tratado sobre tuberculosis titulado A New Theory of Consumptions more specially of a Phthisis or Consumption of the Lungs en el que propone la teoría de que la enfermedad es producida por unos seres microscópicos (Animacula) capaces de vivir en el organismo humano, ciento cincuenta años antes del descubrimiento del bacilo de Koch. "may possibly be some certain species of animalcula or wonderfully minute living creatures that by their peculiar shape or disagreeable parts are inimicable to our nature.....". B. Marten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Benjamin Marten (c.1690–1752) was an English physician from "Theobald's Row" near Red Lyon Square, Holborn, and one of several sons of a tailor. In 1720 he conjectured in "A New Theory of Consumptions - More Especially a Phthisis or Consumption of the Lungs", that tuberculosis may be caused by "wonderfully minute living creatures" that could lead to the lesions symptomatic of the disease, thereby expressing the theory of or 'living contagion'. He went on to state that "it may be therefore very likely that by a habitual lying in the same bed with a consumptive patient, constantly eating and drinking with him, or by very frequently conversing so nearly as to draw in part of the breath he emits from the lungs, a consumption may be caught by a sound person...I imagine that slightly conversing with consumptive patients is seldom or never sufficient to catch the disease." Marten's epidemiological insight was prescient. Although Leeuwenhoek had reported seeing bacteria in 1676, he had not believed that his "little animals" caused disease. In 1882 Robert Koch confirmed the agent of tuberculosis. To this day its treatment remains a challenge. Benjamin Marten probably received an MD degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1717. At that time degrees did not require formal courses or examinations and were routinely conferred after recommendation and on application, and on payment of a prescribed fee. Thus a notice appeared in "Officers and Graduates of University and King's College, Aberdeen" on 9 December 1717 stating that a Benjamin Marten had paid the requisite fee and had been issued with a diploma. Benjamin's brothers were the surgeon and the apothecary James Marten. He also had a sister who married a certain tailor named Spooner. Benjamin married Hannah Fisher, a spinster of St Botolph Aldersgate, on 17 November 1716. The ceremony was recorded in the Marriage Register of St Stephen Walbrook, and stated that the groom was from - the 'List of London Marriage Licences' reflects a date of 13 November 1716 for the marriage. (en) Benjamín Marten fue un médico inglés autor en 1719 de un tratado sobre tuberculosis titulado A New Theory of Consumptions more specially of a Phthisis or Consumption of the Lungs en el que propone la teoría de que la enfermedad es producida por unos seres microscópicos (Animacula) capaces de vivir en el organismo humano, ciento cincuenta años antes del descubrimiento del bacilo de Koch. "may possibly be some certain species of animalcula or wonderfully minute living creatures that by their peculiar shape or disagreeable parts are inimicable to our nature.....". B. Marten. (es) |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis.jpg?width=300 |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | http://www.aeras.org/about-tb/history.php https://books.google.com/books%3Fid=Nw44dW9d1D0C&pg=PA17 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 38028509 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 4224 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1101519332 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbc:18th-century_English_medical_doctors dbr:Holborn dbr:Robert_Koch dbr:University_of_Aberdeen dbr:Spinster dbr:Tuberculosis dbr:Doctor_of_Medicine dbr:Red_Lion_Square dbc:1752_deaths dbc:1690s_births dbr:St_Stephen_Walbrook dbr:St_Botolph_Aldersgate dbr:Contagium_vivum dbr:File:Mycobacterium_tuberculosis.jpg dbr:John_Marten_(surgeon) dbr:St_Michael_Bassinshaw |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Center dbt:Reflist dbt:Use_British_English dbt:Use_dmy_dates |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:18th-century_English_medical_doctors dbc:1752_deaths dbc:1690s_births |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Physician |
| rdf:type | dbo:Person yago:Adult109605289 yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:Doctor110020890 yago:HealthProfessional110165109 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:MedicalPractitioner110305802 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Professional110480253 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:Whole100003553 yago:Wikicat18th-centuryEnglishMedicalDoctors |
| rdfs:comment | Benjamín Marten fue un médico inglés autor en 1719 de un tratado sobre tuberculosis titulado A New Theory of Consumptions more specially of a Phthisis or Consumption of the Lungs en el que propone la teoría de que la enfermedad es producida por unos seres microscópicos (Animacula) capaces de vivir en el organismo humano, ciento cincuenta años antes del descubrimiento del bacilo de Koch. "may possibly be some certain species of animalcula or wonderfully minute living creatures that by their peculiar shape or disagreeable parts are inimicable to our nature.....". B. Marten. (es) Benjamin Marten (c.1690–1752) was an English physician from "Theobald's Row" near Red Lyon Square, Holborn, and one of several sons of a tailor. In 1720 he conjectured in "A New Theory of Consumptions - More Especially a Phthisis or Consumption of the Lungs", that tuberculosis may be caused by "wonderfully minute living creatures" that could lead to the lesions symptomatic of the disease, thereby expressing the theory of or 'living contagion'. He went on to state that "it may be therefore very likely that by a habitual lying in the same bed with a consumptive patient, constantly eating and drinking with him, or by very frequently conversing so nearly as to draw in part of the breath he emits from the lungs, a consumption may be caught by a sound person...I imagine that slightly conversing (en) |
| rdfs:label | Benjamín Marten (es) Benjamin Marten (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Benjamin Marten yago-res:Benjamin Marten wikidata:Benjamin Marten dbpedia-es:Benjamin Marten https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4XNG8 |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Benjamin_Marten?oldid=1101519332&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis.jpg |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Benjamin_Marten |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of | dbr:Marten,_Benjamin |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:Dorothea_Waley_Singer dbr:Tuberculosis dbr:Benjamin_Martin dbr:History_of_tuberculosis dbr:Marten,_Benjamin dbr:Mycobacterium_tuberculosis |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Benjamin_Marten |
