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The French cardiologist Michel Haïssaguerre is born of 1955. In 1998 he first described the use of catheter ablation for patients with atrial fibrillation.

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2021-10-05

Todays’ Find: Linda Caldwell’s 2020 biography of John Gorrie (3 Oct 1803 – 29 June 1855), “He Made Ice & Changed the World”, a U.S. physician who developed mechanical cooling in an effort to help his malaria & yellow fever patients https://t.co/tHd0CJDvgT

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2021-10-04

The irish anatomist Richard Quain (1800-1887) was the author of a superbly illustrated work, "The of the Arteries of the Human (London, 1844), deduced from observations made on 1040 subjects.
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2021-10-03

1835 Oct 2: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu died. Used anesthetic "tsusensan" in 150+ breast cancer surgeries https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy

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2021-10-03

1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" https://t.co/psjYlMzQ3C

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2021-09-27

Title - The Central Board of Health: Cholera Consultation.
Satire of the corruption and uselessness of public health officials, by George Cruikshank (1792-1878)

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2021-09-27

Today’s Find: One of my articles “Eat Some Lettuce & See Me in the Morning: The Endless Search for Pain Relief” https://t.co/RWpaGqFoyw (Access requires free registration)

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2021-09-24

From to title page of A. van Leeuwenhoek, Send-brieven (Epistles, to the High-honored Gentlemen of the Royal Society in 1718 turned into a plaque in 1740, coll. . https://t.co/67WsUkuQ3y

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2021-09-20

A ‘standing’ male cadaver with the trunk dissected to reveal the viscera, held upright with various wires and chains. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.

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2021-09-16

A Case of True - 2 physicians bundle and tie a patient they are sure is suffering from cholera. A 3rd person assists in the removal of the patient. Another physician inspects the contents of a chamber pot, & to the right a physician holds up dirty trousers. 1832

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2021-09-14

of 1746 the italian scientist Giovanni Battista was born. He was a learner of Spallanzani and he was responsible for the of the effect that bears his name and is used in facial masks designed to administer in known quantities.

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2021-09-12

1846 Sept 7: Gilbert Abbott met with surgeon John Collins Warren in Boston about his neck tumor; the Oct 16 surgery is now known as Ether Day https://t.co/HI1kmdthv4

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2021-09-08

Today's Painting: Lillian Wald who led U.S. Nurses' Emergency Council during 1918 flu epidemic https://t.co/EAzpTIF8cS
This 1919 portrait is by William Valentine Schevill She was born 10 Mar 1867 & died 1 Sept 1940

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2021-09-02

In 1685 Govard Bidloo published an anatomical atlas, "#Anatomia Hvmani Corporis". The book was later plagiarized by english surgeon William Cowper for his "#Anatomy of the Humane Bodies" (1698), which gave no credit to Bidloo.

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2021-09-01

Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) was a Dutch Golden Age anatomist, poet and playwright. In 1685 he published an anatomical atlas illustrated with 105 plates by Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers.

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2021-09-01

Today’s Find: "Saturday Evening Post" cover 31 Aug 1918 https://t.co/Dd4wEISshe At the time the Post was one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S.

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2021-09-01

of 1910 Vivien Theodore Thomas was born. He was an american laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.

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2021-08-29

The great italian anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachio died on august of 1574 at the age of 64. He described the tuba auditiva, which was named after him.

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2021-08-28