The_Invention_of_Surgery

William and John Hunter’s eighteenth-century engraving of a nine-month fetus inside the placenta and uterus of its deceased moth ...

Malpighi’s drawing of the microscopic architecture of the capillaries of the lungs of a frog, confirming Harvey’s conception of ...

St. George’s Hospital and Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner. St. George’s Hospital was the hospital of John Hunter and Henry G ...

John Hunter FRS (1728–1793), the father of scientific surgery, despite an almost complete lack of formal education. An autodidac ...

Rokitansky’s Pathology Institute in Vienna, with the inscription, INDAGANDIS SEDIBUS ET CAUSIS MORBORUM, an obvious nod to Morga ...

Robert Hooke’s revolutionary book Micrographia showed the microscopic world in incredible detail. The flea was depicted here, at ...

The Royal Society’s first major publication, Micrographia was the world’s first scientific best seller. This is the engraving th ...

Hooke’s microscope. From Engraving of a Microscope in Micrographia, 1665 by Robert Hooke, Wellcome Collection. ...

Typical hematoxylin and eosin slide of human tissue, in this case, the retina, with the nuclei (containing DNA) stained a deep p ...

Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), father of modern pathology, prolific author, and author of the incredible phrase, Omnis cellula e ce ...

Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878), one of the chief luminaries of the 19th-century Viennese medical enlightenment, performing 30,0 ...

The Royal Society’s headquarters at Crane Court, London, where Edmund Halley met with fellow cognoscenti to view the solar eclip ...

Isaac Newton FRS (1642–1726), perhaps the greatest genius in the history of thought. Invented calculus, and discovered the laws ...

The Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, or AKH, the Vienna General Hospital, where multiple specialties in medicine were inv ...

Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865), the tortured, unappreciated Hungarian–Austrian physician who unsuccessfully tried to convince doct ...

Joseph Lister (1827–1912), perhaps the most important surgeon in world history, the physician scientist who introduced sterile t ...

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), the lone non-physician who ushered in the germ theory, triggering the metamorphosis of surgery into a ...

Robert Koch (1843–1910), pioneering physician who unlocked the secrets of culturing and identifying bacteria. From Wikimedia Com ...

Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) and Sahachiro Hata. Ehrlich won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to immunology, and was critical i ...

Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), discoverer of penicillin, but was unable to master the growth of penicillium, and forfeited the c ...