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Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) the German psychiatrist who coined the term agoraphobia

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2022-09-12

The position in the medieval version, shown in a codex of "Chirurgia Rolandina" of Rolando Parmensis (1198-1280), and in a more modern version.

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2022-09-10

The images, taken from the book "A Practical Treatise of diseases of the (1888), by the american dermatologist John Shoemaker, show two patients suffering from The bacterial cause of the disease was not yet known at the time.

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2022-09-09

The american William S died 100 years ago. In 1889 he introduced the gloves in to the operating room. His most important contribution to was breast therapy.

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2022-09-08

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/TSF8TN22h4

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2022-09-08

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Wood & Selick Cough Drops https://t.co/qB7HMN5M6n Via the Helfand Collection Located in NY https://t.co/bKX5WDRRuj

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2022-09-05

Today's Painting: Lillian Wald who led U.S. Nurses' Emergency Council during 1918 flu epidemic https://t.co/abndI8qGv6 This 1919 portrait is by William Valentine Schevill She was born 10 Mar 1867 & died 1 Sept 1940

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2022-09-02

The italian anatomist Giandomenico Santorini (1681-1737) described the accessory pancreatic duct that bears his name. His work was reproduced posthumously (1775) on panels drew by G. B. Piazzetta.

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2022-09-01

Today’s Find: Saturday Evening Post cover 31 Aug 1918 https://t.co/FSFo3C1Bxt At the time the Post was one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S.

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2022-09-01

The german pathologist Ludwig Pick was born in 1868. In 1912 he coined the term "pheochromocytoma" after observing the consistent color change in tumors associated with the adrenal medulla.
He died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944.

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2022-09-01

Really looking forward to this evening’s event on Ireland and past pandemics

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2022-08-19

The latest in our rare books series highlights Sir Humphry Davy - illustrious former owner of a book on the plague now in our Library 📚

Read more here: https://t.co/22P9t9igtT


(Image - Gillray cartoon of Davy demonstrating nitrous oxide .)

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2022-08-12

As the apothecary serves a crowd of eager customers we can see his assistant Death using the mortar behind a curtain to mix poison. From Rowlandson’s Death and the apothecary - part of the exhibition at )

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2022-08-03

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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2022-08-02

The thoracic aorta and it's branches from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter

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2022-07-21

Para la lucha, “aunque comunique fuerza... ocasiona peligro de relajación, fractura de los huesos y sofocación” G. Mercuriale, “Arte gymnastica” (#Venecia, 1601). Grabado de Coriolano https://t.co/5olovX5vaz

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2022-07-15

The mouth from 'The Practical Guide to Health' by Frederick M. Rossiter (1910)

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2022-07-14

a weekly dose of

Raissa Nitabuch (1859–?) 🇷🇺 was a pathologist best known for contributing to our understanding of human placenta anatomy

She is the ONLY woman whose name is a macroscopic anatomical eponym: Nitabuch fibrinoid / layer

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2022-07-14