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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was a Dutch businessman and scientist. He is commonly known as "the Father of and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists.

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2019-12-06

Cure the croup in one minute! That's what this trade card for Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam claims, anyway!

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2019-12-05

This lovely pomegranate comes from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal plants (1880-1881)

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2019-12-03

We've just launched a new museum trail! Use it to discover objects from dolls to paintings to preserved human remains, all reflecting the how the human body has been used and represented in medicine. https://t.co/cXYuoorPsX

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2019-11-29

Today's Find: "No Way Out" is a 1950 film featuring Sidney Poitier as a physician in an urban county hospital https://t.co/9BRABdoA7U

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2019-11-28

When published Lennart Nilsson’s photo essay “Drama of Life Before Birth” in 1965, the issue was so popular that it sold out within days. And for good reason. Nilsson’s images publicly revealed for the first time what a developing fetus looks like.

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2019-11-20

Fortunio Liceto was an italian physician and philosopher. His work most famous, is "De monstruorum causis, natura et differentiis", originally published in Padua in 1616 then reprinted in 1634 with lavish illustrations.

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2019-11-17

Tavola 18 del 'De Formato Foetu' di Girolamo Fabrizi di Acquapendente (1537-1619).

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2019-11-15

In 1918-19 the american neurosurgeon Walter E. Dandy published his landmark papers on air ventriculography and the associated technique of pneumoencephalography that allowed for the first time to visualize lesions on x-rays.

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2019-11-10

"De Formato Foetu" of Fabricius summarizing his investigations of the fetal development of many animals, including man, contained the first detailed description of the and opened the field of comparative

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2019-11-09

in 1884, Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach was born! Rorschach is probably most famous for inventing the Rorschach test, a series of inkblots used to identify psychological disorders, like the ones here, from his 1948 Psychodiagnostik

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2019-11-08

The dott. Guido Farina (1868-1959), in 1896, in sutured the heart of a 30-year-old man who had suffered a cutting wound. This caused a 7 mm wound in the right ventricle. Farina removed part of the fifth rib from the sternum to the

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2019-11-04

In 1885, while studying Louis Pasteur tested his first human . produced the vaccine by attenuating the in rabbits and subsequently harvesting it from their spinal cords.

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2019-10-29

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Compliments of the very successful patent medicine businessman James Cook Ayer of Lowell, Mass. https://t.co/Afn66c0ooF

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2019-10-27

There are now even more opportunities to take part in our most popular event! Our 'Victorian Surgery Talk & Demonstration' is now available on both Saturdays and Sundays at both 11:00AM and 4:00PM. Get your tickets here: https://t.co/9UmS6x5xit

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2019-10-25

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 in 1835

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2019-10-23

1708 Oct 16: Swiss physician Albrecht von Haller born; died 1777. Often called the father of experimental physiology https://t.co/plP6zjZFLr

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2019-10-16

Today's Find: Blog post Photo of the Day (9): McAdory Home & Infirmary in 1910
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2019-10-14