Medical History
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@ViroLIEgy And the idea of asymptomatic / latent carrier is even older than that. Where everything was called Leprosy and Syphilis. This was a time where they housed people in lepe...
😱Challenges in hematology😱 acquired von Willebrand Syndrome (aVWS)🩸 A short 🧵 1/14 https://t.co/mpFHWCpCAS
In the 1800s, Scottish surgeon Robert Liston became infamous for a surgery that led to an astonishing 300% mortality rate. He amputated a patient's leg in under 2.5 minutes, oper...
25-year-old Missouri woman, Patricia Stallings, gave birth to a son named Ryan in April 1989. Three months later, Ryan became ill and was taken to the hospital, where doctors found...
In 1987, Dr. Zbigniew Religa achieved a significant milestone in Polish medical history by successfully completing the country's first-ever heart transplant. The surgery, which las...
➡️ Antimicrobial therapy has been used for millennia ➡️ Treating severe infections can be lifesaving ➡️ However, the widespread use of antimicrobials also has downsides A 🧵 1/16...
Do you remember THAM? We performed a systematic review, and THAM sure has a fascinating history. Strap in for a fun ride. 🧵 @MayoAnesthesia @RadosevichMisty @EricaWittwer @IAR...
69-year-old man 👉1-week history of an itchy, burning rash on his back and right trunk 👉 rash appeared 2 days after he had been discharged from the hospital after prostatectomy f...
This is Dr. Yellapragada SubbaRao He discovered the function of ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) He is also credited with the first synthesis of folic acid & methotrexate that treats...
🧵regarding what may be the most beautiful of all surgical instruments, which is of course the Castroviejo needle holder. Here we will take a closer look at some of its features, (...
Myotonic disorders! “after a fright, or in an unexpected joyous movement, this convulsive constriction occurs in all limbs…the victim can not stand upright” Prussian physician As...
1) There are many books on clinical medicine and most of them are horrible. Here is my curated list. The first and most important book has to be Dr. Boloor's text. Well written...
🧵regarding one of the most basic and commonly used instruments in surgery...the DeBakey forceps. DeBakey forceps were designed for vascular and cardiac surgery, but now are used b...
Milkmaid’s grip!!! “motor impersistence of the hand” Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493–1541) (Paracelsus) first coined the term Chorea Sanc...
Glabellar reflex (Myerson's sign)!!! "the preliminary note on a new cranial reflex" British doctor Walker Overend (1858–1926) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetori...
Did you know? The Sushruta Samhita describes over 120 surgical instruments. 5,13,300 surgical procedures & classifies human surgery in 8 categories. Following is the only survivi...
History 🧵on two methods of fluid administration devised before IV's were widespread: These are hypodermoclysis (infusion into the subcutaneous tissue) and proctoclysis (which is e...
Hoffmann and his Assistant!!! “upper limb equivalent of the Babinski sign test” - hyperreflexia - cervical cord #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia 1/ https://t.co/Ji8ap...
Another pulmonary teaching case from yesteryear: A middle aged woman comes to clinic with many months of pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. Her current & prior CXR are shown Prio...
🧵regarding the Kittner dissector (actually it's Küttner) and its various forms. The Küttner is used in practically every surgical specialty, which is fitting since Hermann Küttner...
🧵regarding Allis forceps: What they're used for, some of the history, including why their design was probably a misunderstanding, and why they're not even like other Allis forceps...
#OTD in 1981, Namita Mukhopadhyay went home from school to find her husband's body hanging inside their fifth-floor apartment on Southern Avenue, Calcutta. A chilling thread on Ek...
Today's🧵concerns the Lebsche knife: a barbaric-looking and rarely used but critical instrument; how to use it, and (of course) a little of interesting history of Max Lebsche, and...
In preparation for future 'instrument' threads, I've been going through some of the original works of Theodor Kocher (in German), looking for original diagrams of the many things t...