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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

1973 July 21: The cover of TV Guide declared "TV Medical Shows: They Really Do Save Lives" https://t.co/3Se3N31IdS
"Marcus Welby, M.D." & “Medical Center” were very popular U.S. TV shows at the time

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2021-07-22

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

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Dr. R.V. Pierce ran his empire from Buffalo NY https://t.co/ulklMuGtKZ

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2021-07-19

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

1757 July 13: English artist Thomas Rowlandson was born https://t.co/IwBECgAY89 His many caricatures included some 100 featuring medical images. Died 21 April 1827 This one is "Medical Dispatch, or Doctor Doubledose killing two Birds with one Stone"

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2021-07-14

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Ferguson wrote a number of medical romances, this one published in 1982 https://t.co/sgKvRMQXrc

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2021-07-08

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

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Munroe was one of the pseudonyms used by Frank Castle [1910-1994] who wrote westerns & other fiction https://t.co/dAbfp95q1U This title first published in 1970

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2021-06-27

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

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: This very successful patent medicine appeared in the U.S. before the Civil War & continued to be distributed well into the 20th century https://t.co/f5HshGt6Pp

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2021-06-21

Today’s Find: Sax Rohmer, “The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu” published in 1913. The “wonderful & evil” Manchu is the world’s greatest villain. In one source, the 1932 film “The Mask of Fu Manchu”, he claims a medical degree from Harvard https://t.co/8YFupcRPPR

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2021-06-19

1667 June 15: Exact date is disputed. A Parisian physician Jean-Baptiste Denis (1640?-1704, sometimes spelled “Denys”), performed first documented blood transfusion involving a human on either June 15 or 28. Lamp's blood into a 15 yo boy https://t.co/aEbDF1aumI

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2021-06-16

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