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Franz Liszt and Lisztomania: “Le concert, c’est moi”. But before the Beatles, before Elvis, there was Franz Liszt, whose 1844 concert in Berlin shocked the musical world and generated the term and medical condition of “Lisztomania.” https://t.co/1S6H1NyvNX

Is love a disease? Notably erotic, obsessive, knees-a-trembling, passionate love ? Many have discussed this interminably. The person in love loses weight and sleeps poorly. His eyes are rimmed by a shadow that betrays nights of insomnia. https://t.co/ZzDOcDMucb

Albatross Syndrome: In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a sailor shoots down an albatross, and when calamity followed, his shipmates hung the dead bird around his neck, just as patients haunt surgeons because of complications of their operation. https://t.co/nlp9Er6RUM

Franz Joseph #Gall (1758-1828) pioneered the concept that different areas of the brain had specific functions but mistakenly related them to bumps or contours of the skull, the basic thesis of #phrenology, and was eventually charged with charlatanism. https://t.co/zPPvLKNRfM

Juan Valdeverde described in detail the bones of the face, their nerves and blood supply; the muscles of movement of the eye, nose, and larynx; the middle ear and the anatomy of the stapes; and the intracranial course of the carotid artery. https://t.co/Gmtwq8YyX9

"Doctors today are relearning lessons from a century ago when overprescription of opioids created an epidemic of addicts, most of whom were upper-class or middle-class women." Read more at Hektoen International: https://t.co/5GcNpLMXRB
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"Physicist or physician? Scientist or healer? Artificially, these are divisions that have classified doctors through the ages. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) showed that it was possible to be an amalgam of both." https://t.co/ezoFLyd9pr
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#CharlesDickens' classic story #AChristmasCarol was published #OnThisDate in 1843.

Read more about Dickens and his role in founding the Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children at: https://t.co/6Js62mU7DU

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At first Walt Whitman frequently complained about his illustrious primary care physician’s rosy bedside manner https://t.co/AhZH79Wx05