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On Nov 3, 1817, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 princess Charlotte went into labour. Her obstetrician, Sir Richard Croft, diagnosed transverse lie. After 50 hrs, both mother and baby died. Croft was so distraught that he killed himself on Feb 13, 1818. This became known as the ‘triple obstetrical tragedy’.

Thomas Vicary (1490-1561) became serjeant surgeon to Henry VIII in 1530, after treating his leg ulcer. Vicary was instrumental in the 1540 Act of Parliament that united barbers and surgeons (and gave the company the right to claim the bodies of 4 executed felons for dissection).

John of Arderne (1307-80) served as Serjeant Surgeon to the army of Edward III at he battle of Crécy in France. He was famous for his treatise on the treatment of fistula-in-ano, and for being among the first to question medical dogma, encouraging guidance by clinical experience

In the 17th/18th centuries CE, male barber-surgeons began to get involved in childbirth, leading to the title ‘man midwife’, which some took as derogatory (see cartoon from 1793). This led to adoption of the preferred title ‘accoucheur’, a role that became today’s obstetrician.

Sampson’s artery is located below the round ligament next to the uterus, and creates an anastomosis between the uterine and ovarian arteries. While physiologically insignificant, injury to this vessel can be a source of bleeding during surgery. 1/2

Did you know? Scaphoid gets its name from the Greek word ‘skaphos’, meaning boat. It used to be called the navicular bone, which we now use for one of the tarsal bones of the foot. That name came from the Latin word ‘navicula’ (little boat). Both so named because of their shape.

The anatomical ‘snuff box’ is a triangular depression on the lateral dorsal side of the hand, so called because it was used to hold ground tobacco (snuff) before being inhaled through the nose. Tenderness there after a fall may indicate a scaphoid fracture.

On April 14, 1913, German surgeon Ernst Heller (1877-1964) performed the first extramucosal myotomy on the esophagus of a 49 year old male patient with achalasia. The Heller myotomy is still in use, though typically now done laparoscopically.

The Satinsky vascular clamp was created by American cardiothoracic surgeon Victor Paul Satinsky (1912-1997). After serving as a surgeon in WW2, he joined the Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia (which closed in 2019) and played a role in developing coronary bypass surgery!

On June 12, 1920, Russian born French surgeon Serge Voronoff (1866-1951), aka “the monkey gland man”, first transplanted thin slices of testicles from chimpanzees and baboons into a human scrotum. His rejuvenation technique was very popular before being debunked by 1935.