The_Invention_of_Surgery

Earl Bakken’s first pacemaker. From Medtronic. ...

Henry VIII granting a royal charter to the Company of Barber-Surgeons. King Henry VIII Granting a Royal Charter to the Barber-Su ...

William Worrall Mayo (1819–1911), head of the Mayo patriarchy, father of William and Charlie. William Worrall Mayo, photogravure ...

William James Mayo (1861–1939), elder son of W. W. Mayo, revolutionary surgeon despite practicing in the tiny town of Rochester, ...

Charles Mayo (1865–1939), one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic and renowned operator of unbelievable surgical volume. Portrait ...

The total shoulder arthroplasty of Charles S. Neer, MD From Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1974; 56: 1-13. ...

Broca’s Area of the brain. From Wikimedia Commons. ...

Otto Deiters (1834–1863), pioneer in microscopy of nerves. From Wikimedia Commons. ...

Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), neuroscience pioneer who invented staining techniques that brought the microscopic architecture into ...

The neuron of Otto Deiters. From Deiters, O. F. K. 1865 Untersuchungen über Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen und der Saügethie ...

Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852–1934), the father of neuroscience. From Universidad de Ciencias Medicas de la Habana. ...

Drawing by Ramon y Cajal of the medulla oblongata of a trout. From The Janelia Archives. ...

Drawing by Ramon y Cajal of the retina and optical centers in the eye of a bluebottle fly. From The Janelia Archives. ...

Homunculus of the the human brain. From EBM Consultant. ...

Alim Louis Benabid. French neurosurgeon who ushered in the implantable brain stimulator era and changed the treatment of Parkins ...

The inspiring Dowdy couple; deaf and blind but not really handicapped. Photo by Lowell Handler. ...

Acknowledgments There are no eureka moments. At least that’s what we are supposed to conclude in this post-modern world, but it ...

Wendy predicted that I would write a book, but it took the nudging of several friends over the last decade to jump start the pro ...

entrepreneurs is somehow wrong in their world ... so I won’t. But, for those engineers and business people who are leading the c ...

laws) Mark and Lynne Schneider, Ben and Rochelle Platter, Daniel and Gisella Schneider, Tim and Jenny Brynteson, Elizabeth (and ...