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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

Today's honors Justine Siegemund, whose 1690 manual (The Court was the first German medical text written by a woman.

Further info via : https://t.co/zp3QxTk1Za

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2023-03-28

Muscles of the face and neck from Johannes Sobotta's atlas of human anatomy, 1st published in 1904

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2023-03-28

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

in 1848, 15 year-old Hannah Greener was the first patient to die as a cause of chloroform anaesthetic for the removal of a toenail. Her death prompted debates about the safety of chloroform, resulting in publications promoting patient safety.

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2023-01-28

Normann Barrett (1903-1979) was the first to coin the term "gastroesophageal reflux" to indicate the abnormal reflux of acidic material from the stomach into the esophagus and was the first to describe the esophageal columnar metaplasia that bears his name.

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2023-01-28

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

The carotid arteries and interior jugular veins - from Clarke’s text-book on embalming (1885). Credit: https://t.co/F4PK5dqEtS

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2023-01-24

Gertrude B. Elion was born in 1918. After a difficult start, in which she was unable to find a stable job, even though she had a degree in she was hired at Wellcome.
Elion, in collaboration with dr. Hitchings, revolutionized 20th century

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2023-01-23

Caesarean section methodology from Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme by J. M. Bourgery (1797-1849)

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2023-01-22

Axial section through the abdomen from Johannes Sobotta's atlas of human anatomy, 1st published in 1904

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2023-01-15

The exhibition on medicine in visual satire was a treasure trove! As a researcher of death and medicine in satire I was delighted to see some familiar images - as well as many lurking skeletons

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2022-12-25

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

In an epistle dated 1678, the danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin the younger, son of Thomas and grandson of Caspar the elder, communicated the discovery of glands similar to the prostate that had the function of lubricating the during coitus.

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2022-11-24

The Black Apollo of designed by Joseph Maclise for Richard Quain's "Treatise on (1851), suffered the ax of racist censorship when, from Great Britain, it landed in the United States: his head was cut off and the color of his was cleared.

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2022-10-31

Enjoying the late opening at and a chance to see some of medical and death-related items on display - from the instruments used by practitioners of the past to memento mori encouraging people to think of the end

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2022-10-28

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

A Concise History of Veterinary Medicine by and Peter A. Koolmees

The first concise global history of veterinary medicine and animal healing, covering the past 400 years.



https://t.co/eUIpODc766

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2022-09-13