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Later as curator of McGill University’s Medical Museum she began to study pathological specimens of congenital heart defects. Her expertise was such that Sir William Osler asked her to contribute a chapter on the subject to his celebrated The Principles and Practice of Medicine.

Louw suspected that intestinal atresia was caused by an interruption to the blood supply to the gut while the fetus was developing. To investigate this possibility he enlisted the experimental assistance of his registrar, Christiaan Barnard.

In the 1950s, as a young surgical trainee, Barnard worked for Professor Jan Hendrik Louw, the pioneer of paediatric surgery in South Africa. Louw had trained at @GreatOrmondSt in London and on his return established the Children’s Surgical Service at Groote Schuur Hospital.

Mackenzie was a figure of huge importance and arguably the first person in the world to be identified as a 'pure' cardiologist. But he spent most of his career as a general practitioner, a family doctor in Burnley.

This is Angelo Mosso's sphygmomanometer, an early device for measuring blood pressure. The patient inserted their fingers into the tubes (marked 'E') which were filled with water - both diastolic and systolic pressures (and a pulse wave) were recorded on the black cylinder.

"An instance of this kind I have neither met with nor heard of." A doctor summoned to deliver twins in 1858 finds their umbilical cords tied together in a knot. The first such case reported in the English-language medical literature: https://t.co/NaMAYQ7Yrj

@FredWuMD @mmamas1973 Let's just hope he's not intending to imitate Vladimir Demikhov and attempt heterotopic transplants....

No. 5 is this 'rare and peculiar' case from 1785, when 'a man from the countryside by the name of Philibert, aged twenty-two, informed me that he had a fork in his penis.' Wowzers. https://t.co/bZMNlKv8Dl

This might easily have killed him - but the fork was removed under general anaesthesia, surgeons performed minor debridement to the wound and, astonishingly, he made a complete recovery.

Six of the peppermint treats can be seen on this X-ray. Doctors decided that no treatment was necessary and were just relieved that the objects turned out to be edible. They did him no harm.