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Rackets is believed to have been invented in the 18th-century debtors' prisons. It is mentioned in the Pickwick Papers, in which Mr Pickwick watches it being played in the Fleet debtors' prison.

The patient made an uneventful recovery and walked out of the hospital - she lived for another four months, with good quality of life.

On March 11 1960 Nina Starr Braunwald implanted one of her artificial valves in the heart of a 44-year-old woman who had suffered from mitral regurgitation since childhood. She was desperately ill and in end-stage heart failure.

With another young researcher, Theodore Cooper, she began to investigate the possibility of manufacturing an artificial replacement for the mitral valve - at a time when patients with end-stage mitral regurgitation frequently died despite their doctors' best efforts.

Thanks to her expertise in biomaterials, heart valve haemodynamics and tissue transplantation, she was offered her own laboratory at the National Heart Institute.

Born in Brooklyn in 1928, Nina Starr studied in New York and became the first female general surgeon ever to practise at the city's famed Bellevue Hospital.

Mirowski was an amazing person. He grew up in the Jewish community of Warsaw, but fled Poland aged 15 when the Nazis invaded. He was the only member of his family to survive the war, most of which he spent trying to evade capture in Soviet Russia. (more: https://t.co/Wi52fsAaPm)

This 1955 image from the US National Library of Medicine shows a patient being prepared for an early open-heart operation. The patient is in an ice bath, because the unnamed surgeon was going to employ deep hypothermia rather than the heart-lung machine.

@JohnsHopkins @HopkinsMedicine (NB: a century ago nobody was entirely sure what exactly the spleen did. Now we know that it is essentially a large lymph node, acting as a filter for the blood and a major component of the immune system. When these experiments were performed in 1922 its role remained a mystery)

This may be one of the most irritating features @Windows has ever introduced.

[Yes, I have now succeeded in turning it off]