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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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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.
6/9 Nobel prize winning surgeons. Walter Hess, ophthalmologist, 1949, for his discovery of the interbrain's control over internal organs.
1/9 Nobel prize winning surgeons. Theodor Kocher, 1909, "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland
One of Dr. Alexis Carrel's innovations in vascular surgery: the Carrel patch.