History of Pathology Society: Dedicated to the Study of the Pathologic Sciences and to the people and events who widened the sphere of medical knowledge
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You will recognize that study of the skull in his Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints.
John and Charles Bell, Benjamin Bell (no relation), and Joseph Bell (no relation) are the key Bells to remember (there are others though)
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Vesalian anatomy persisted well into the 18th century. For your consideration: Tortebat/De Piles Abrege D’Anatomie, 1765.
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If you didn’t already know, pathologists are the real life main characters.
Today’s Find: “Diagnosis: Unknown” was a U.S. medical TV drama that ran July 5 until Sept 20, 1960 as a summer replacement series. Starred Patrick O’Neal as a city hospital pathologist tinyurl.com/y35d89p6 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
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Dr Edith Potter, the name behind Potter’s sequence of renal agenesis, laid the foundation to perinatal pathology. During her career, she performed over 10,000 perinatal autopsies investigating deaths of babies. Read more about her by Dr Dunn ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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A photo of Henrietta Lacks in the late 1940s. Henrietta's cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortal human cell line, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientific discoveries of the 20th century. #histmed #historyofmedicine
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Rudolf Virchow - 'The Father of Modern Pathology'. Virchow was an anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He was renowned for his advancement of public health and for discrediting humourism #histmed #historyofmedicine
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), the Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist. His investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 with Camille Golgi.
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American physician Theodric Romeyn Beck authored the first book on forensic medicine in 1823 #histmed #historyofmedicine #forensics #pastmedicalhistory
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A photo of Sir William Osler taken in the Bodleian Library in 1909, holding open Sir William Stirling-Maxwell's copy of Vesal's tabulae Anatomicae. #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
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Coming soon. Our 3rd online fall meeting October 1st at 3pm CT. We are grateful to host Dr Thomas Cummings from Duke University. His talk "November 22, 1963". Do you remember what happened on that date?
Join us via zoom mchealth.zoom.us/j/946425376…
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The Osteology Lesson of Dr Sebastiaen Egbertsz by Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy circa. 1619 #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory
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So I should have delayed my latest publication and submitted it to USCAP instead? Oh well. I’ll be speaking on the history of forensic pathology at NAME 2025.
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Anatomy of the kidney from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory
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Illustrations from the 'Kaitai Shinso', an anatomy text translated into Japanese during the Edo period. #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory
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French anatomist and naturalist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux (1797-1880) displaying one of his famous anatomical models in 1845 #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
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Beautiful anatomical images of the upper and lower limb by Leonardo da Vinci #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
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The anatomical theatre at Leiden University in the early 17th century #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
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Save the date Friday October 18th at 3pm CT US for our 2nd mid-Fall online meeting of our Society. You are welcome to join and listen to our Azar Awardee of 2024, Dr Ramirez and our guest speaker, Dr Pizzi.
mchealth.zoom.us/j/925179389…
Meeting ID: 925 1793 8968
Passcode: 269197
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Paul Langerhans (1847-1888) - the German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the pancreatic cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans #histmed #historyofmedicine #pathology #physiology #pastmedicalhistory
