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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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#OTD of 1910 Vivien Theodore Thomas was born. He was an american laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.
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Treitz's ligament takes its eponym from the czech #doctor Václav Treitz who described it for the first time in 1853. He was one of the first to support #Semmelweis's thesis and died #OTD of 1872 at the age of 53.
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Jean Cruveilhier (1791-1874) was a french pathologist. His fame is linked to the works like an atlas full of tables of the greatest interest. He illustrated his #autopsy findings with the stories of the sick, always keeping #science close to the practice of #medicine.
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Valverde's most famous work was "Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano", first published in Rome, 1556. The original illustrations were most likely drawn by Gaspar Becerra, and the copperplate engravings are thought to have been carried out by Nicolas Beatrizet.
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