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Henry Jacob (1818-1890) was a prominent surgeon. He employed the artist Oscar from 1848 to 1854 to draw a series of watercolors illustrating his lessons at the (see pictures of femoral

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2018-11-04

This cartoon showing a dozing Board of Health appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1865; the next year, the Metropolitan Board of Health was established, requiring three of it's members to be physicians

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2018-11-03

Norman Rupert (16 May 1903 – 8 January 1979) was an Australian-born British thoracic surgeon who is primarily remembered for describing Barrett's in 1957.

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2018-11-01

Vanilla and turmeric make popular additions to were known for their medicinal properties in the 19th-century. Both images from Bentley's 1880 Medicinal Plants

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2018-10-20

Adolph (1822 – 1902) was a german physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was one the first to perform gastric lavage and to attempt and

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2018-10-19

"After the tube has been introduced, the usually experiences entire relief and generally falls into a quiet, refreshing sleep."
[from "Intubation of the 1888]

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2018-10-07

Christian Wilhelm (1831–1892) was a german anatomist. He is known for his excellent lithographs of cross-sections of the and his pioneer work in biomechanics. He also pioneered the use of frozen cadavers for anatomical investigations.

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2018-10-04

Be a pepper! Read more about the use of this timeless spice as a curative https://t.co/XPRusGbxRk

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2018-09-29

Bit of an ocular solar system 👁🌕☄️ Plates illustrating 'natural and morbid changes of the human eye' (1868) for

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2018-09-26

Fetal
From: Ernst Bumm's "Grundriss zum Studium der Geburtshilfe" (1901).

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2018-09-20

A picture from the "#HANDBUCH DER GYNÄKOLOGIE" (1897) by and others. The image shows the patient's preparation for a

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2018-09-20

Yellow jasmine, or gelsemium, from Millspaugh's American Medicinal Plants, 1887. Read about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's medicinal experiments with the plant here: https://t.co/mINkxiNdk1

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2018-09-19

The anatomical of 1843 shows an of the thoracic arrived to erode the thoracic vertebrae. This image, lithographed by Battelli and associates, is taken from the of the French pathologist D. Jean (1791-1874).

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2018-09-13

James Young (June 7, 1811—May 6, 1870, London), was a scottish obstetrician who was the first to use in and the first in Britain to use

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2018-09-12

Umetaro (1874-1943) was a japanese scientist. In 1910 he was researching the effects of bran in curing patients of when he discovered an active fraction, which he patented as "aberic acid".

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2018-09-12

19thc representations of secondary syphilis in 'Constitutional Syphilis...' (1872) by James George Beaney, FRCSEd. The colour plates were intended by Beaney to act as "pictorial illustrations of the ravages syphilis makes on the skin"

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2018-08-23

Christian Gerhard (1846 – 1911) is remembered for the eponymous "Leopold maneuvers", which are four classic maneuvers used to determine the position of the within the

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2018-08-23

Dutch surgeon Pieter Adriaanszoon Verduyn (ca. 1625–1700) developed the first below-knee prosthetic that allowed for knee movement and one of the first “true flap amputations,” as described in his Dissertatio (1696)

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2018-08-17

'Whimsical effects of nitrous oxide gas' or
Come to the George Marshall Medical Museum to learn more about anaesthetics like the laughing gas that's making this man dance!
Image:

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2018-08-17

Bourgery's French anatomical atlas offers a 19th-century answer to branding https://t.co/3qJuLOJ28T

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2018-08-16