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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The facial, masticatory and neck muscles by Nicolas Henri Jacob from 'The Complete Treatise of the Anatomy of Man' by Marc Jean Bourgery, 1831.

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Today's Find: "Trauma Center" is a series of simulation/visual novel video games set in fictional hospitals in California, Alaska & Maine https://t.co/KOGGpJ3k6B

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Various views of the cranium by E. Mitchell from The Principles of Surgery by John Bell, 1806.

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1760 Oct 23: Japanese physician Hanaoka Seishu was born https://t.co/UOAE9paWBN
He used an oral general anesthetic tsusensan in 150+ breast cancer cases He died 21 Nov 1835

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Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Burdock Blood Bitters was a popular product for decades https://t.co/V6UlAY17bv
Burdock is a medicinal herb

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The french microbiologist Émile Roux died in 1933 at the age of 79. He was one of Louis closest collaborators, co-founder of the and responsible for the Institute's production of the anti-#diphtheria serum.

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1760 Oct 23: Japanese physician Hanaoka Seishu was born https://t.co/UOAE9oTldd He used an oral general anesthetic tsusensan in 150+ breast cancer cases He died 21 Nov 1835

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Todays Findr: Her sister marries the man she loves. Marnay only wrote a few romances, this one published in Oct 1965 https://t.co/dxVRymqf8q

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Scottish anatomist Charles Bell's 'The Anatomy of the Human Body' https://t.co/ghl6ZIyqgI

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1805 Oct 13: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu performed his first breast cancer operation with "tsusensan" as an oral general anesthetic. He did dozens more https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy

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La imprenta madrileña del "Semanario pintoresco español..." publica en 1850 la monografía de Manuel Ruiz de Salazar (1807-1882) sobre el y las aguas de y , en
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‘Dr Syntax and his Wife making an experiment in pneumatics’, Laughing gas (nitrous oxide) parties were popular in the 1820s and 1830s. The illustrations are by Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), a British artist and caricaturist.

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1835 Oct 2: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu died. Used anesthetic "tsusensan" in 150+ breast cancer surgeries https://t.co/sNzEnhfB60

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