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Azerbaijan-born American Allen Oldfather died 60 years ago. He's well known for the pancreatic cancer operation as well as the triad which bear his name.

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2023-04-06

Dr. Norman M. Dott was a pioneer of in the UK.
In 1931 he treated an on the proximal part of a middle cerebral in a patient by wrapping the lesion with a muscle.

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2023-04-06

The anatomical table designed by the French naturalist Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty (1711-1786) reproduces the sexual characteristics of a (true) who lived in Corsica in the 18th century.

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2023-02-04

in 1898, the french Jules-Émile Péan died at the age of 67. He was the first to successfully perform splenectomy and pyloric resection for treatment. A hemostatic forceps is named after him.

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2023-01-30

is the bicentenary of the death of dr. Edward Jenner. Born in 1749, he was the creator of the and thus founded a new branch of called

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2023-01-26

of 1777, a pioneer of the swiss Albrecht von Haller, died at the age of 69. He studied the properties of the nervous and muscular system and in 1766 published the "Elementa physiologiae corporis humani".

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2022-12-13

Thomas Godart (1821-1887) was librarian and artist at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He not only assisted the surgeon Luther Holden in the engraving of his lithographs, but also depicted the pathological aspects of various diseases.

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2022-10-21

The position in the medieval version, shown in a codex of "Chirurgia Rolandina" of Rolando Parmensis (1198-1280), and in a more modern version.

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2022-09-10

The images, taken from the book "A Practical Treatise of diseases of the (1888), by the american dermatologist John Shoemaker, show two patients suffering from The bacterial cause of the disease was not yet known at the time.

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2022-09-09

The american William S died 100 years ago. In 1889 he introduced the gloves in to the operating room. His most important contribution to was breast therapy.

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2022-09-08

The italian anatomist Giandomenico Santorini (1681-1737) described the accessory pancreatic duct that bears his name. His work was reproduced posthumously (1775) on panels drew by G. B. Piazzetta.

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2022-09-01

The german pathologist Ludwig Pick was born in 1868. In 1912 he coined the term "pheochromocytoma" after observing the consistent color change in tumors associated with the adrenal medulla.
He died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944.

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2022-09-01

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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2022-06-22

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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2022-06-10

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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2022-06-09

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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2022-06-08

"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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2022-05-11

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

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

Today he is known for his description in "The Lancet" in 1834 of the contracture in the hands of the disease that bears his name, a disease which operated for the first time in 1831 (Dupuytren's disease).
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2021-10-07