# waybackwednesday histmed medicine anatomy

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Raissa Nitabuch (1859–?) 🇷🇺 was a pathologist best known for contributing to our understanding of human placenta anatomy

She is the ONLY woman whose name is a macroscopic anatomical eponym: Nitabuch fibrinoid / layer

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2022-07-14

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Elisabeth Winterhalter (1856–1952) 🇩🇪 was a gynecologist and surgeon! Her research identified ovarian autonomic ganglia using Golgi staining, but her discovery was widely dismissed until it was confirmed nearly 100 years later!

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2021-04-15

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Thomas Willis (1621–1675) 🇬🇧 was a physician whose name (or eponyms bearing his name) has become commonplace in He was a founding member of the

Today marks the 400th anniversary of his birth!!

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2021-01-28