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Thomas Godart (1821-1887) was librarian and artist at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He not only assisted the surgeon Luther Holden in the engraving of his lithographs, but also depicted the pathological aspects of various diseases.
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The #Trendelenburg position in the medieval version, shown in a codex of "Chirurgia Rolandina" of Rolando Parmensis (1198-1280), and in a more modern version.
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The images, taken from the book "A Practical Treatise of diseases of the #skin" (1888), by the american dermatologist John Shoemaker, show two patients suffering from #syphilis. The bacterial cause of the disease was not yet known at the time.
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The american #surgeon William S #Halsted died #OTD 100 years ago. In 1889 he introduced the gloves in to the operating room. His most important contribution to #surgery was breast #cancer therapy.
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The italian anatomist Giandomenico Santorini (1681-1737) described the accessory pancreatic duct that bears his name. His work was reproduced posthumously (1775) on panels drew by G. B. Piazzetta.
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The german pathologist Ludwig Pick was born #OTD in 1868. In 1912 he coined the term "pheochromocytoma" after observing the consistent color change in tumors associated with the adrenal medulla.
He died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944.
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The italian physiologist Carlo Matteucci was born #OTD in 1811. With his experiments on frogs he studied animal #electricity. His "rheoscopic" frog was unique.
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Thoracic #surgery: patient suffering from severe left pulmonary tuberculosis undergoing resection of the tubercular cavity and ribs (from IV to VIII) in 1895 by Dr. Macewen. The photograph was taken in 1911.
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Seen from behind: schematic and radiological images of the chest as shown in the text "Surgery of the lung", by Karl Garrè and Heinrich Quincke, published in 1912.
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