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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was a Dutch businessman and scientist. He is commonly known as "the Father of #Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists.
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When #LIFE published Lennart Nilsson’s photo essay “Drama of Life Before Birth” in 1965, the issue was so popular that it sold out within days. And for good reason. Nilsson’s images publicly revealed for the first time what a developing fetus looks like.
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Fortunio Liceto was an italian physician and philosopher. His work most famous, is "De monstruorum causis, natura et differentiis", originally published in Padua in 1616 then reprinted in 1634 with lavish illustrations.
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Tavola 18 del 'De Formato Foetu' di Girolamo Fabrizi di Acquapendente (1537-1619).
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In 1918-19 the american neurosurgeon Walter E. Dandy published his landmark papers on air ventriculography and the associated technique of pneumoencephalography that allowed for the first time to visualize #brain lesions on x-rays.
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"De Formato Foetu" of Fabricius summarizing his investigations of the fetal development of many animals, including man, contained the first detailed description of the #placenta and opened the field of comparative #embryology.
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In 1885, while studying #rabies, Louis Pasteur tested his first human @vaccine. #Pasteur produced the vaccine by attenuating the #virus in rabbits and subsequently harvesting it from their spinal cords.
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Desplein, a doctor of medicine, is a character from Honoré de Balzac's "Comédie humaine". It was created after the surgeon Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835).
He is a famous surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and the professor of Horace Bianchon.
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