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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

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

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

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

1805 Oct 13: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu performed his first breast cancer operation with "tsusensan" as an oral general anesthetic. He did dozens more https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy

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2019-10-13

Desplein, a doctor of medicine, is a character from Honoré de Balzac's "Comédie humaine". It was created after the surgeon Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835).
He is a famous surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and the professor of Horace Bianchon.

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2019-10-11

Jacques F. A. Pierre Miller (born in 1931) is famous for having discovered the function of the and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes (T cells and B cells) and their function.

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2019-10-07

1835 Oct 2: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu died. Used anesthetic "tsusensan" in 150+ breast cancer surgeries https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy

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2019-10-02

1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died in 1878. Two of his medical works are "Headache" & "The Colic" https://t.co/psjYlMifc4

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2019-09-27