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Jacques F. A. Pierre Miller (born in 1931) is famous for having discovered the function of the #thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes (T cells and B cells) and their function.
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The birth of #arthroscopy? In 1912, the danish surgeon Severin Nordentoft presented a work in which he showed his technique to study the #knee #joint with an #endoscope he had borrowed from the thoracoscope used by a colleague of his.
#orthopedics #histmed #surgery #science
Albrecht von Haller (1708 – 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman #Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern #physiology."
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Norman Rupert #Barrett (16 May 1903 – 8 January 1979) was an Australian-born British thoracic surgeon who is primarily remembered for describing Barrett's #oesophagus in 1957.
#histmed #surgery
Adolph #Kussmaul (1822 – 1902) was a german physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was one the first to perform gastric lavage and to attempt #oesophagoscopy and #gastroscopy.
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