Thomas Morrisさんのイラストまとめ

There is a specialised branch of surgery theory called Dehn surgery, concerned with manipulations of 3-manifolds (topological spaces which look locally like 3-dimensional space). Graphic by Kenneth L. Baker: https://t.co/64LwwXAEhc

Just noticed that today's #GoogleDoodle pays tribute to the great cardiac surgeon René Favaloro! It's not every day that you see a coronary artery bypass graft on the @google homepage.

Dr Nietert's cardiac suture was performed eleven months before Dr Hill's celebrated operation. It seems to me that Dr Nietert has been unfairly ignored and is the one who deserves to be remembered as the first American to operate successfully on the human heart. #FOAMed

On October 17 1901 the hospital admitted a young man who had been stabbed during a steamboat outing. Dr Nietert immediately realised he had a cardiac injury and decided to repair it - inserting two sutures in the left ventricle. His description of the procedure is unambiguous.

Dr Oliver was a physician in fashionable Bath. According to legend his first patisserie invention was the Bath bun - a not particularly healthy snack which was found to make his patients pile on the pounds. So he tried to devise a healthier alternative.

Jacques Bertillon was Chief of Statistical Services for the City of Paris. In 1891 the International Statistical Institute asked him to prepare a new list classifying the various causes of death.

(Incidentally, both Sauvages and Linnaeus appear to have been acting on a suggestion of the great English physician Thomas Sydenham, who wrote that...

Here's a future Doctor Who, who apparently plays the guitar.

The most frequently prescribed medicines were 'emetics, drastics, tonics, astringents, and emollients'. Drastics were powerful laxatives and probably not much fun to take (an astringent had the opposite effect).

Then, as now, the services offered by a London emergency department were often overwhelmed by demand.