200 years ago Mary #Shelley wrote the story how Victor #Frankenstein created from parts of cadavers a living creature that when rejected by mankind turns to violence https://t.co/odj3IJsqMF
Here, the anatomist himself has been dissected as he tends to a dismembered cadaver on the table. In the original, this haunting illustration is accompanied by figures of the heart and lungs. From Anatomica del corpo humano by Juan Valverde de Amusco, 1560 #anatomy#art#histmed
"Before Edward Jenner was conferred the sobriquet The Father of Immunology there was Lady Mary Montagu, an ardent promoter of women’s emancipation and also of smallpox variolation, an immunological technique she had seen in Constantinople."
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Learn about how modern nursing birthed from horrors of war, first graph in history, poisonous air, and the remarkable life of Florence Nightingale in new ep "The Lady with the Lamp"! Plus new #AdamAnswers from @tmc_RN on the nurse-doctor relationship! https://t.co/bCfA8L40pH
Síndrome de Guillain-Barré y Batalla del Somme #Neurología. Interesante artículo en el que @tseguram combina Historia y Medicina https://t.co/7USEFfEJ3k
The Greeks first coined the term epilepsy, meaning “to seize” or “to attack”, because they thought it was caused by an attack from a demon or god. The Sacred Disease (400 BC) was one of the Hippocratic collection of manuscripts (460 – 377 BC). https://t.co/SZNrW4J7qP
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