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In 1789, the great Scottish anatomist and surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) presented a classic case of what he called 'introsusception' in a nine-month-old baby, describing it in an intense way.
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#OTD in 1986, at the age of 98, the great Irish anesthetist Ivan Magill died. He developed many tools for #anesthesiology, such as the laryngoscope, forceps, and endotracheal tube that bear his name.
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Jacques Guillemeau (1550–1613) was a french #surgeon. He was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and a favored student of Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), who was also his father-in-law. He was a leading authority on #ophthalmology and #obstetrics.
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Charles Albert Calmette died #OTD of 1933 at the age of 70. In 1894 he develop the first antivenoms for snake bites using immune sera from vaccinated horses (Calmette's serum).
With Guerin he tried to develop the vaccine for tuberculosis.
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Today he is known for his description in "The Lancet" in 1834 of the contracture in the hands of the disease that bears his name, a disease which operated for the first time in 1831 (Dupuytren's disease).
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The French cardiologist Michel Haïssaguerre is born #OTD of 1955. In 1998 he first described the use of catheter ablation for patients with atrial fibrillation.
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