Santorio Santori And Insensible Perspiration
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2024
Some people become obsessed with tracking their weight, carefully counting every calorie they eat and burn through exercise. They even weigh...
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Ernest Duchesne: The Forgotten Discoverer of Penicillin
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2024
In 1897, a young French medical student named Ernest Duchesne submitted a ground-breaking doctoral thesis titled Contribution to the Study o...
Antimony Pill: The Everlasting Pill
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2024
Antimony—the soft, lustrous gray metal—has many industrial uses such as in the preparation of flame-retarding compounds and in the manufactu...
Optography: Preserving a Dead Person’s Last Sight
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2023
In 1924, Germany was rocked by a sensational case of multiple homicide. Fritz Heinrich Angerstein, a resident of Limberg, Germany, had bruta...
The Tragedy of Ignaz Semmelweis: The Doctor Who Pioneered Hand-Washing
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2023
Nearly 150 years have passed since the groundbreaking contributions of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch helped lay the foundation of the germ t...
Martin van Butchell: The Dentist Who Put His Dead Wife on Display
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2023
Quackery in dentistry has existed as far back as the earliest days when sufferers from dental problems sought treatment at the hands of some...
Girolamo Segato’s Mysterious Petrified Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2023
For thousands of years, different cultures across continents have successfully preserved bodies of their ancestors. For the Egyptians, mummi...
The Case of The Exploding Teeth
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2023
In the January 1861 issue of The Dental Cosmos , the first major journal of American dentistry, a Pennsylvania dentist named WH Atkinson doc...
Serge Voronoff: The Doctor Who Transplanted Monkey Testicles Into Men to Rejuvenate Them
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2023
One of the most sensational presentations at the 1923 International Congress of Surgeons in London was made by the Russia-born French surgeo...
Painless Parker: The Showman Dentist
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2022
At the Temple University's dental museum in Philadelphia, there is a small section dedicated to one of the most notorious dentist of Ame...
The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2022
In May 1783, in a small village named Mundul Gaut, in Bengal, India, a strange child was born. He had two heads. The midwife assisting the...
What is Galvanism, And How Did it Inspire Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2022
On 18 January 1803, George Foster was hanged by the neck. The jury had found him guilty of murdering his wife and child by drowning them in ...
How a German Air Raid in Bari Helped Discover a Cure For Cancer
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2022
On December 2, 1943, the Germans launched a surprise attack on a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking more than 20 Allied merchant ships ...
Scribonius Longus, The Roman Physician Who Used Electricity as a Treatment
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2022
Scribonius Longus (Latin Scribonius Largus ) was a 1st century AD Roman physician who served at the court of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) an...
The Miraculous Survival of Phineas Gage
Anonymous
Mar 24, 2022
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Except in the case of Phineas Gage, who became a lot of things but strong after an accident that o...
Tarrare: The Man Who Ate Too Much
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2022
If gluttony is a sin, then perhaps the worst offender was a man named Tarrare who lived in 18th century France. He had such an insatiable ap...
21 Grams: The Weight of The Soul
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2022
What is a soul? Can it be touched? Does it have mass? These questions tormented Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts...
John Brinkley: The Doctor Who Transplanted Goat Testicles Into Humans
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2021
The morning of September 15, 1930, was undeniably warm in Kansas. That summer had been the hottest ever recorded in the state. The heat had ...
Typhoid Mary: The Most Infamous Typhoid Carrier Who Ever Lived
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2021
We have been hearing about “asymptomatic carrier” quite a lot in the past few months. It scares us to death that there are people carrying c...
Anatomical Theaters
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2021
Since ancient times, the primary way to teach and learn anatomy have been to dissect human cadavers. Generations of surgeons have learned an...
