Legends Of Surgeryさんのイラストまとめ

Syphilis (Treponema pallidum) aka the great pox, can cause saddle nose, ⬆️ need for rhinoplasty during outbreaks in renaissance Europe.

Jejunoileal bypass, first done as a bariatric procedure on April 9, 1954, by Dr. Arnold Kremen

Comparing Billroth I and II with the Roux-en-y procedure

César Roux, Swiss surgeon and creator of the Roux-en-Y procedure. Find out more in my latest podcast!

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD in US, founder of New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and Women's Medical College

@VerranDeborah here is the link to the podcast!
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https://t.co/Eu47wzdI2D

Vivien Thomas watches over Dr. Alfred Blalock's shoulder as he performs a Blalock-Taussig shunt to treat Tetralogy of Fallot

January 18, 1803, Giovanni Aldini demonstrated "galvanism" on the recently hanged murderer George Forster at the notorious Newgate prison

1/4 surgeons nominated for Nobel: Alfred Blalock, known for developing procedure to treat blue baby syndrome (tetralogy of Fallot)

8/9 Nobel prize winning surgeons. Charles Huggins, urologist, 1966, for discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer.