Beautiful anatomical images of the upper and lower limb by Leonardo da Vinci #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

French anatomist and naturalist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux (1797-1880) displaying one of his famous anatomical models in 1845 #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Anatomy of the kidney from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory

Illustrations from the 'Kaitai Shinso', an anatomy text translated into Japanese during the Edo period. #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory

Although first described in Antiquity, the disease became known as Behcet disease after Hulusi Behcet, Turkish dermatologist, reported the classic triad of oral, genital ulcers and eye lesion in 1937. He and his colleague pathologist, Dr Oberndorfer, searched for a virus in vain.

A new year, a new program for our Companion meeting at USCAP 2025 annual meeting in Boston "Serendipity: Unplanned Lucky Discoveries in Medical Sciences" with 4 great speakers. Please join us Sunday March 23rd.

Dr. Averill Liebow, father of modern pulmonary pathology, created plastic casts of the bronchi and vessels that changed surgeries, his passion was pulmonary hypertension and his contributions vast to both non and neoplastic lung. His memoir from Hiroshima worth a read!

William Osler, the "greatest diagnostician ever to wield a stethoscope", one of the "Big Four" founders of Johns Hopkins, was an enthusiast of the microscope "It is of equal importance with the stethoscope". He introduced a practical histology course to students at McGill in 1876

John Azzopardi is best known for his book on breast pathology and of course his "phenomenon" of DNA incrustation of vessels in small cell carcinoma. "Fatherly teacher, generous friend" who provided expert consultations all over the world at no charge.

Wilms tumor named after Carl Marx Wilms (1867-1918), who published his monograph on this tumor in 1899 as a pathologist in Giessen. He would end his career as a successful surgeon and Chair of Surgery at Heidelberg in 1910.

Crohn disease named after Burrill Bernard Crohn following a 1932 article in JAMA "Regional ileitis, a pathological and clinical entity". But description of the disease can be found in the 1st C by Aretaeus. Louis XIII and Prince Albert would have also suffered from the disease.

Max Askanazy (1865-1940) versatile researcher, published in many fields including hematology, parasitology and endocrine pathology. He is actually the first to describe the oncocytic cells of the thyroid, misattributed by Ewing to Hürthle, who actually described the C cells.

History of pathology session. Sunday afternoon

Robbin Warren, Australian pathologist, first recognized curved bacteria, in stomach ulcers of patients in 1979. His observation was met with scorn, until Barry Marshall teamed up with him. They went on to win a Nobel Prize for their discovery of H. Pylori and its clinical impact

Lauren Ackerman (1905-1993), champion of Surgical Pathology as a specialty and author of the seminal textbook Surgical Pathology, first published in 1953. His mentee, Juan Rosai would continue its publication until 2004.

The History of Pathology Society is pleased to share that USCAP has expanded its abstract category to include "History of Pathology" for its 2026 Annual meeting. We also recognize a best abstract submitted by a trainee through our Azar Award. We hope to see many submissions!

History of Pathology Society raffaella santi Rafael E. Jimenez MD Roberto Ruiz-Cordero Agnes Loeffler, MD PhD Allen Gown Julie Lemmon dkurtycz MC Aubry, MD 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.

History of Pathology 2025. Videos available on YouTube @HistoryofPathologySociety.

1901 Alzheimer would meet a 50-yr old patient for unusual behavioral symptoms and loss of memory. 1906 examining her brain, he described plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. But he did not do it alone. Perusini a neuroscientist would copublish their first series of cases in 1909

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/94642537693?…