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1709 Sept 18: English poet, playwright, lexicographer, etc Samuel Johnson was born. His great dictionary was first published in April 1755 & did not include "anaesthesia" although earlier dictionaries did tinyurl.com/ng9ypeh #histmed #medicalhistory
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1922 Sept 7: Surgeon William Halsted died. Among many other achievements, in 1884 he was one of the first Americans to research cocaine for local anesthesia bit.ly/1lkCpYx #medicalhistory #histmed #anesthesiahistory
Dr. Seshagiri Rao Mallampati, an Indian-American anaestheologist, created the Mallampati score in 1985 to predict how difficult it will be to insert an airway tube into a patient's windpipe. In 1987, Samsoon and Young modified his framework by adding a fourth class (Class IV).
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Today's Find: Item in the NY Journal 6 Sept 1896 "Hypnotism in Surgery: Cuban Lieutenant's Frightful Wound Dressed w/out Pain While He Is Hypnotized" tinyurl.com/ycplef2u Includes 2 illustrations #histmed #medicalhistory #hypnotism
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The frog test - injecting the urine of a pregnant woman into the African clawed frog causes an ovulation response. From the 1940s to 1960s, tens of thousands of frogs were injected with human urine and used as pregnancy tests in this way. Image credit: bit.ly/3G0eBqZ
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1898 Aug 16: German surgeon August Bier [1861-1949] performed first operation with spinal anesthesia at the Royal Surgical Hospital of the University of Kiel, Germany. The patient was a 34-yr-old laborer tinyurl.com/mud5zv9a #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
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Today’s Find: 14 Aug 1917 newspaper item “Mark Twain’s Friend Has Limb Amputated” under local anesthesia. Right leg of Sam Davis tinyurl.com/y8es83g6 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
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Penicillin entered mass production in 1944 and revolutionized the treatment of several venereal diseases #histmed #historyofmedicine #penicillin #antibiotics #pastmedicalhistory
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The 18th-Century Baron Who Lent His Name to Munchausen Syndrome | History | Smithsonian Magazine #histmed smithsonianmag.com/history/t…
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1745 Dec 24: American physician Benjamin Rush was born tinyurl.com/ch3brqh Signed Declaration of Independence, taught chemistry, medical theory & clinical practice at Univ Pennsylvania & more. He died 19 Apr 1813 #histmed #OTD
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Wax model showing a dissection of the head. Made in Germany in the nineteenth century, and now on display in the Science Museum, London
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1802 Apr 18: Erasmus Darwin died. Lunar Soc member. In addition to many other achievements & activities, he supported research by Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol on the medical use of gases 1798-1801 tinyurl.com/br9bgt2 #histmed #OTD
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In 2016, partner surgeons Dr. Darrell Cass and Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye successfully operated on a 23-week-old baby by removing her from the mother’s womb, removing a tumour and then replacing her back in the womb. She was born a second time, healthy and on time.
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Chemist Justus von Liebig was perhaps the most famous scientist in the world in the mid-1800s—but he quickly became infamous for his role in the killing of four starving infants. New story below!
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