The italian physiologist Carlo Matteucci was born in 1811. With his experiments on frogs he studied animal His "rheoscopic" frog was unique.

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Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the Helfand Collection via https://t.co/h7vPE7nuXS John L. Hunnewell's formula manufactured by the Gilman Bros in Boston in the 1890s

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Superficial dissection of the left side of the neck, from "An Atlas and Epitome of Operative Aanatomy" by Otto Zuckerkandl

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Thoracic patient suffering from severe left pulmonary tuberculosis undergoing resection of the tubercular cavity and ribs (from IV to VIII) in 1895 by Dr. Macewen. The photograph was taken in 1911.

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Seen from behind: schematic and radiological images of the chest as shown in the text "Surgery of the lung", by Karl Garrè and Heinrich Quincke, published in 1912.

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Technique for measuring intracranial pressure by lumbar puncture as proposed by Heinrich Quincke in his booklet of 1902 “Die Technik der Lumbalpunktion”.

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Today’s Find: Louis Crucius, MD, 1862-1898] created the wonderful Antikamnia calendar art issued 1897-1901 https://t.co/FSbiKD63QZ The company bought 30 of his watercolors just before his death at 35 after kidney surgery

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The latest exhibition on doctors in visual satire is a treasure trove! As a researcher of death and medicine in satire I was delighted to see some familiar images - as well as many lurking skeletons

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Images of the pancreas taken from the Atlas of Human "Heitzmann - Zuckerkandl", ninth edition, 1905.

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Ambroise Paré, famous for improving amputation techniques in the 16th century.

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Today’s Find: These dolls were associated with McCall’s magazine 1941-2000 https://t.co/ahv55KufPJ

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The exhibition [Re]Framing Comics and the History of Medicine has opened Co-curated with Andre Wenzel, with support from

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"In the vertebral column the centra of the vertebrae are excavated, while the intervertebral discs project are unchanged"
[Destruction of by - Textbook of by MacCallum, 1917]

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Matthew Baillie (1761-1823) was pioneer of systematic pathology.
His textbook "Morbid of the Human published in 1793, and its accompanying atlas, constituted the first which dealt exclusively with system-based



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1790 Apr 17: Ben Franklin died. He was a participant in the first investigation of Franz Mesmer's "animal magnetism" claims. Did some other stuff, too
https://t.co/KhIfxmRJTW Born 17 Jan 1706

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