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Jan 6: According to many sources, today is Sherlock Holmes' birthday; some anesthesia connections at https://t.co/jlbkHgLavB

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2022-01-07

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the Helfand Collection https://t.co/dIB57BmPZj For more on bitters see https://t.co/Svq4Va8eoa

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2022-01-03

Rudolph Nissen (1896–1981) performed the first gastric fundoplication in 1955 and published the results of two cases in a 1956. He originally called the surgery "gastroplication". The procedure has borne his name since it gained popularity in the 1970s.

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2021-12-25

Remarkable! 🧠An engraving of the anatomy of the Brain by Charles Bell (1774-1842)

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2021-12-21

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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2021-12-19

Today's Find: Christmas scenes at Guy's Hospital, London, in 1887 https://t.co/U6MmAh1IWO

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2021-12-11

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the Helfand Collection https://t.co/Lgaq8iJT2T ca. 1890's, Chicago

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2021-12-06

1887 Dec 1: Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in "A Study in Scarlet" See JR Maltby's article on Holmes & anesthesia https://t.co/H6h4R4CHQ1

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2021-12-02

in 1986, at the age of 98, the great Irish anesthetist Ivan Magill died. He developed many tools for such as the laryngoscope, forceps, and endotracheal tube that bear his name.

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2021-11-26

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 21 Nov 1835

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2021-11-22

Sunday Patent Medicine Calendar: The Antikamnia Chemical Co did some wonderfully macabre calendars for several years ca. 1897-1901 https://t.co/pbTczG8i6F & https://t.co/VAlLf23ho6 Art by Louis Crucius

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2021-11-22

The scottish Charles Bell was born in 1774. He described neurological alterations such as opisthotonos and the that bears his name. He was also a military and documented his experiences of him in the Battle of Waterloo.

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2021-11-13

Jacques Guillemeau (1550–1613) was a french He was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and a favored student of Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), who was also his father-in-law. He was a leading authority on and

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2021-11-06

Today’s Find: The song “The Rose of No Man’s Land” originally written in 1918 in French by Louis Delamarre as tribute to Red Cross nurses https://t.co/nAxL7Un4LT English lyrics by Jack Caddigan & music by James A. Brennan for this version

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2021-11-04

Charles Albert Calmette died of 1933 at the age of 70. In 1894 he develop the first antivenoms for snake bites using immune sera from vaccinated horses (Calmette's serum).
With Guerin he tried to develop the vaccine for tuberculosis.

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2021-10-29

1760 Oct 23: Japanese physician Hanaoka Seishu was born https://t.co/UOAE9oTldd He used an oral general anesthetic tsusensan in 150+ breast cancer surgeries He died 21 Nov 1835

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2021-10-24

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/PoLOIS026v

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2021-10-14

Would you look at this Victorian print of the male (top) and female (bottom) pelvis? The pelvic region is the lower part of the trunk, between the abdomen and the thighs. There you have it! Your lesson for the human body! 😉

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2021-10-12