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#OTD of 1888 was born Ivan Magill. He was a pioneer of #anesthesiology: he performed the first intubation (blindly) of the trachea and he was responsible for many instruments used in #anesthesia and #resuscitation.
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The #german pathologist Paul Langerhans was born #OTD of 1847. The islets of the #pancreas that produce #insulin and the dendritic cells of the #skin bear his name.
More than 50 years will pass from his #discovery of pancreatic islets to that of insulin.
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Aloysius "Alois" #Alzheimer was born #OTD of 1864. He was a german #psychiatrist and is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile #dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.
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Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624), was a swiss botanist, anatomist and #physician who described thousands of plants. He was also disciple Girolamo Mercuriale and he worked on human anatomical nomenclature.
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Hieronymus Fabricius was born #OTD of 1533. He was an italian pioneering #anatomist and #surgeon known in medical #science as "The Father of #Embryology". William Harvey and Spigelius (1578–1625) also studied under him.
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In Case III of his book on 'bronzino disease' (1855), Thomas Addison describe the clinical story of a young 26-year-old carpenter. The #autopsy revealed the presence of adrenal glands completely destroyed and transformed into a 'strumous' mass.
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The great German anatomist Robert Heinrich Johannes #Sobotta died #OTD of 1945 at the age of 76. He's remembered today for the 'Sobotta #atlas of human #anatomy', a masterpiece of macroscopic anatomy acclaimed for its high quality and detail.
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#OTD of 1452 was born #LeonardodaVinci. Leonardo was given permission to dissect human corpses in Florence and later at in Milan and Rome. He made over 240 detailed drawings and and wrote a great many unpublished pages of #anatomy.
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In 1952 a group of US researchers led by the great cardiologist Paul Paul D. White studied the relationship between the size of #hearts and their frequency in various animals, including a 4 meter long beluga.
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Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (1533 – 1619), was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of #Embryology."
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The French dermatologist Jean Louis Alibert (1768-1837) performing the vaccination against #smallpox - painted by Constant Joseph Desbordes.
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#OTD of 1816 was born the german physiologist Carl F. W. #Ludwig. His work as a researcher had a major influence on the methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of #physiology.
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Augustus V. Waller was born #OTD in 1816. #Waller experimented on frogs in 1850, by severing their glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal #nerves. The phenomenon of degeneration that followed, today bears his name.
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Anatomical tables: Juan Valverde VS Andreas Vesalius.
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