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Treitz's ligament takes its eponym from the czech Václav Treitz who described it for the first time in 1853. He was one of the first to support thesis and died of 1872 at the age of 53.

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2021-08-28

'The Anatomist Overtaken by The Watch'

Love the rattle that the watchman has in this picture
(and the knobbly knees)

📸 Wellcome Images

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2021-08-13

Today’s Find: The song “The Rose of No Man’s Land” originally written in 1918 in French by Louis Delamarre as tribute to Red Cross nurses https://t.co/nAxL7U5tUl English lyrics by Jack Caddigan & music by James A. Brennan for this version

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2021-08-03

1774 Aug 1: One of Joseph Priestley's experiments released a gas that turned out to be oxygen https://t.co/30PMxTpnj6

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2021-08-02

Jean Cruveilhier (1791-1874) was a french pathologist. His fame is linked to the works like an atlas full of tables of the greatest interest. He illustrated his findings with the stories of the sick, always keeping close to the practice of

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2021-07-27

Valverde's most famous work was "Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano", first published in Rome, 1556. The original illustrations were most likely drawn by Gaspar Becerra, and the copperplate engravings are thought to have been carried out by Nicolas Beatrizet.

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2021-07-24

Today’s Find: In “The Dutch Shoe Mystery” by Ellery Queen, first published in 1931, the founder of Dutch Memorial Hospital is murdered just before her gall bladder operation is set to begin https://t.co/1z6FgjmtIn

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2021-07-24

of 1888 was born Ivan Magill. He was a pioneer of he performed the first intubation (blindly) of the trachea and he was responsible for many instruments used in and

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2021-07-23

The pathologist Paul Langerhans was born of 1847. The islets of the that produce and the dendritic cells of the bear his name.
More than 50 years will pass from his of pancreatic islets to that of insulin.

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2021-07-20

of Karl Friedrich died at the age of 71. His work on the of the and nervous system introduced a number of names. It was published in three volumes "Vom Baue und Leben des Gehirns" (1819-1826).

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2021-07-16

In July 1844, William Morton began using sulphuric ether as anaesthetic in Boston dental practice 🦷💤 After 2 years of experimenting, he was the first to publicly & successfully demonstrate ether anaesthesia in 1846!

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2021-07-07

Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) was a and Within 20 years, along with the artist Nicolas Henri Jacob, he created the comprehensive textbook "Traité complet de l’#anatomie de l’#homme".

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2021-07-01

Karl Landsteiner died in 1943 at the age of 75. were great, but the greatest, the one for which he will go down in and won the 1930 , was the discovery of groups, which took place in 1901.

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2021-06-26

Aloysius "Alois" was born of 1864. He was a german and is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.

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2021-06-15

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Check out 's profile of Karl Landsteiner, the Austrian physician who isolated the polio virus & confirmed the existence of blood types!

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2021-06-14

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/tHd0CJV6Ft

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2021-06-11

Today’s Find: Saturday Evening Post cover 31 Aug 1918 https://t.co/FSFo3BK0FV At the time the Post was one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S.

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2021-06-04

Today's Find: Abstract by AJ Wright, "Balloons & Medical Gases: The Collaboration of James Sadler & Thomas Beddoes" https://t.co/reDkgwpZJI See also https://t.co/YAqjUCBzpJ

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2021-05-27