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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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Henry Tonks (1862-1937) was a British painter. Before embarking on an artistic career, he had graduated in #Medicine and practiced the profession of #surgeon. Only later did he engage as a painter and became an influential teacher at the "Slade School of Fine Art".
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Nathaniel Highmore published a treatise on human #anatomy in 1651 noteworthy for its accurate and well written account of blood circulation. He is especially known for his description of the maxillary sinus, which used to be more popularly referred to as the "antrum of Highmore".
In 1685 Govard Bidloo published an anatomical atlas, "#Anatomia Hvmani Corporis". The book was later plagiarized by english surgeon William Cowper for his "#Anatomy of the Humane Bodies" (1698), which gave no credit to Bidloo.
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Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) was a Dutch Golden Age #physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. In 1685 he published an anatomical atlas illustrated with 105 plates by Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers.
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