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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 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

The French cardiologist Michel Haïssaguerre is born of 1955. In 1998 he first described the use of catheter ablation for patients with atrial fibrillation.

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2021-10-05

In 1685 Govard Bidloo published an anatomical atlas, "#Anatomia Hvmani Corporis". The book was later plagiarized by english surgeon William Cowper for his "#Anatomy of the Humane Bodies" (1698), which gave no credit to Bidloo.

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2021-09-01

of 1910 Vivien Theodore Thomas was born. He was an american laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.

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2021-08-29

The great italian anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachio died on august of 1574 at the age of 64. He described the tuba auditiva, which was named after him.

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2021-08-28

Treitz's ligament takes its eponym from the czech Václav Treitz who described it for the first time in 1853. He was one of the first to support thesis and died of 1872 at the age of 53.

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2021-08-28