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/psjYlMifc4

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Bartolomeo Estachio (1510-1574) is one of the fathers of modern His plates were lost but were fortunately found by GM Lancisi who published a commentary on these precious 47 drawings in 1714.

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Today's Find: Ian Williams' graphic novel "The Lady Doctor" was published 31 Jan 2019 https://t.co/iky21Qph3P

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[1/7] We know what you’re thinking … how were strangulated hernias treated in the 19th century?! Well, fear not because we have some answers! A strangulated hernia is a serious medical condition in which tissue pushes through the abdominal wall and...

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Human gestation: on the left photo of “Fetus of 18 weeks” published in the LIFE magazine in 1965, on the right an antomic table taken from the work of the italian antomist Fabrizi ab Aquapendente from around 1600.

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of 1858 was born Oskar Minkowski. In1889, after removing the from a healthy dog, he noticed that some flies ate the dog's and that this urine contained

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Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (1533 – 1619), was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of

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Müllerian ducts are paired ducts of the that, in the will develop to form the fallopian tubes, cervix, and the upper one-third of the
They bear the name of the german physiologist Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858).

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The French dermatologist Jean Louis Alibert (1768-1837) performing the vaccination against - painted by Constant Joseph Desbordes.

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of 1816 was born the german physiologist Carl F. W. His work as a researcher had a major influence on the methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of

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The great English surgeon wrote "The Natural History of Human in 1771 in which he described dental development, and He called the with Latin terms: incisores, cuspidates, bicuspidates and molares.

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Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) was a swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave and discent of Johann Bernoulli, he is often referred to as "the father of modern

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Augustus V. Waller was born in 1816. experimented on frogs in 1850, by severing their glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal The phenomenon of degeneration that followed, today bears his name.

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Welcome to First,take a deep breath! Done? Good! Today we want to show you the anatomy of a Victorian amputation found in George Bell's Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery (1821). We are so glad that our copy is not coloured!😱

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Manifestations of secondary syphilis in ‘Constitutional Syphilis’ (1872) by surgeon & paediatrician James George Beaney FRCSEd. Intended to serve as “pictorial illustrations of the ravages syphilis makes on the skin” (1/4)

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1887 Dec 1: Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in "A Study in Scarlet" See JR Maltby's article on Holmes & anesthesia https://t.co/H6h4R4CHQ1

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The pterygoid canal (Vidian canal) of the sphenoid bone bears the name of the Italian anatomist Guido Guidi the Elder (Latinized Vidius Vidi, 1507-1569).

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