15. Kurt Gödel

These beautiful lithographs which show the mammary glands and lactiferous ducts, sectioned through the nipple, were drawn from anatomical preparations injected with coloured wax. From 'On the Anatomy of the Breast' by Astley Cooper, 1840. #Anatomy #Art #HistMed

Flying into the new week after Halloween, it's one of our favourite specimens in the AnatomicalMuseum collection, the skeleton of a Fruit Bat, also known as a Megabat (which certainly gives it more of a #CapedCrusader feel) [Our Ref: 3336] #bats #Batman

A fascinating glimpse into Dr. Harvey Cushing’s collection of brains and his portfolio of patient photography. #anatomy #surgery #histmed atlasobscura.com/articles/cushi…

5 December 1952. A freezing cold fog descended on London and was responsible for an estimated 12,000 deaths from respiratory conditions in weeks that followed. It became known as “The Great Smog”.

Dr. Alois #Alzheimer died #OTD 105 years ago at the age of 51. He first described in 1906 a patient suffering from the #syndrome that now bears his name. #Neurology #Psichiatria #histmed #storiadellamedicina #historiamedicina #medicine #medicina #doctors #historyofmedicine

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The first aerial photo of Stonehenge 📷 Lieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe (1906).

Antrag auf Rückstellung des Restvermögens i.d.H.v. EURO 243.224.- von der Republik Österreich an mich sparismus.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/ant…

Well, this is spiffy: a virtual tour of (part of) the Pitt Rivers Museum: my.matterport.com/show/?m=ns3yCK…

#OTD of 1891 was born Wilder Penfield. In 1950, in the monograph entitled "The cerebral cortex of #man", Penfield (with Rasmussen) illustrated the cortical map of the somatosensory homunculus. #histmed #Neurology #brain #neurologia #science #history #Medizin #historiamedica

John Snow and the 1854 Cholera Outbreak pastmedicalhistory.co.uk/john-snow-and-…

Wie die Wirtszelle #SARS-CoV-2 bindet: Forschende der Bielefeld University liefern in Kooperation mit Universität Gießen und Klinikum Bielefeld erstmals Aufnahmen des Coronavirus mit dem #Heliumionen-Mikroskop: bit.ly/36zBQFT Foto: Universität Bielefeld/N. Frese Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social

#OTD of 1865 Gregor Mendel presented his hybridization experiments on plants at the meeting of the Natural Society in Brno. The experiments of artificial fertilization, carried out by the augustinian monk on ornamental plants and peas led him to develop his laws on inheritance.

Georg Haas (1886-1971) was a German medical #doctor who performed the first human #hemodialysis #treatment (october 1924). The procedure lasted only 15 minutes, and hirudin served as the anticoagulant. #histmed #medicine #science #historiamedica #medizin #medicine #Kidney

On Wed., 2/17 at 12pm ET we will host a virtual panel event. Speakers will discuss "Freud’s Drawings and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis" & introduce the online exhibit "The Interpretation of Drawings: #Freud and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis" bit.ly/FreudExhibitVi…

Phoebus Levene was born #OTD in 1869. He was the first to discover the order of the three main components of a single nucleotide (phosphate-SUGAR-base) and to discover the carbohydrate component of #RNA (ribose). His proposed tetranucleotide diagram in 1910, however, was wrong.

How do our ears work? This question fascinated Nobel Laureate Georg von Békésy. To find out he painstakingly dissected structures that make up our inner ears, such as the tiny spiral-shaped cochlea, that transforms vibrations into neural signals for us to hear. #WorldHearingDay

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The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Learn more: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

Helium ion microscopy reveals how viruses attack bacteria at sub-nanometer resolution bit.ly/2tNw15V #bacteriophages