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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.

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.

@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)

"What is an aortic coarctation?", clamours non-medical Twitter, with gratifying enthusiasm.

The aorta is your largest artery, conveying oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

An aortic coarctation is a stricture, a congenital narrowing of the vessel.

Is it possible for a human to grow a new skull? According to one eminent French medic, that's exactly what happened when a young boy was seriously injured in the 1870s. More on this extraordinary case report here: https://t.co/loWhm0b3TX #FOAMed

The boy who fell asleep in a fire, then grew a new skull. A bizarre sequence of medical events, reported by a leading French physician in 1879: https://t.co/ntsgBqOFId

In 1871 the German surgeon Theodor Billroth became the first to successfully remove a cancerous growth from the stomach. The operation he pioneered, known as Billroth I, is still used to this day! Read about the history of this groundbreaking procedure: https://t.co/R9ce1hanfC

One of the earliest surviving images of surgery: the physician Japix removes an arrow from the thigh of Aeneas. A fresco painted in the 1st century AD, and discovered in the ruins of Pompeii in 1825. From the collections of @MANNapoli in Naples.

A touch-piece was a memento of the Royal Touch, when a monarch touched those suffering from scrofula. This was thought to cure the condition. Queen Anne was the last British monarch to perform the ritual.