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#OTD of 1888 was born Ivan Magill. He was a pioneer of #anesthesiology: he performed the first intubation (blindly) of the trachea and he was responsible for many instruments used in #anesthesia and #resuscitation.
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The #german pathologist Paul Langerhans was born #OTD of 1847. The islets of the #pancreas that produce #insulin and the dendritic cells of the #skin bear his name.
More than 50 years will pass from his #discovery of pancreatic islets to that of insulin.
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Two images of a #fetus: from one birth the booklet of Eucharius Rösslin (1470 ca - 1526), on the other the famous image of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) taken from his "Quaderni di Anatomia". Unlike #Eucharius, #Leonardo's work was never published.
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Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) was a #french #physician and #anatomist. Within 20 years, along with the artist Nicolas Henri Jacob, he created the comprehensive #anatomy textbook "Traité complet de l’#anatomie de l’#homme".
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Karl Landsteiner died #OTD in 1943 at the age of 75. #Landsteiner's #discoveries were great, but the greatest, the one for which he will go down in #history and won the #Medicine 1930 @NobelPrize, was the discovery of #blood groups, which took place in 1901.
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Aloysius "Alois" #Alzheimer was born #OTD of 1864. He was a german #psychiatrist and is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile #dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.
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Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624), was a swiss botanist, anatomist and #physician who described thousands of plants. He was also disciple Girolamo Mercuriale and he worked on human anatomical nomenclature.
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Hieronymus Fabricius was born #OTD of 1533. He was an italian pioneering #anatomist and #surgeon known in medical #science as "The Father of #Embryology". William Harvey and Spigelius (1578–1625) also studied under him.
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