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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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#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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