The 1898 meeting of the American Medical Association was held in Denver, Colorado in early June. One major address was on the topic of “Wet Dressings In Surgery“, delivered by Dr. Thomas Osmond Summers Jr. of St. Louis, son of the theologian and Confederate States almanac editor. Dr. Summers reached such heights of eloquence, in his […]
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The further self-rejuvenation of Dr. Takasu, surgeon
Dr. Katsuya Takasu M.D., Ph.D is an aesthetic surgeon at the Takasu Clinic, Nagoya, Japan. He has embarked on a personal journey to demonstrate commitment to aesthetic surgery ideals – by having ‘rejuvenative’ facial plastic surgery himself. To document the project, Dr. Takasu, who is now 69, (see right hand top picture) has created three […]
Further studies on wallaby tendon
Wallaby tendon is not just a useful material for surgical sutures.; it can be analyzed for its elastic properties in comparison to the tendons of other animals, and can be used as a model in surgical studies. Physiologists have also been interested in the kinetics of kangaroo and wallaby hopping, to address issues such as […]
Nurse, please pass the 27-gauge wallaby tendon
The Australasian Medical Gazette was a normal medical journal in most respects, with the addition of occasional features relevant to the unique concerns of the doctor practicing in rural Australia (or New Zealand). These ranged from advice on how to avoid being outcompeted by fraudulently subsidized Friendly Societies in the western goldfields, to the report […]
Then: Michael Jackson surgery. Now: Justin Bieber surgery.
The Daily Mail reports the occurrence of surgery to make a British man look like singer Justin Bieber. This follows in the tradition established by the surgeons who rearranged a Belgian man in an effort to make him look like singer Michael Jackson. The photo below shows some of the pages of the medical journal […]
Adams apples : examinations (part 2)
Some, like AdamsAppleBoy shown above are perfectly happy with the size of their Adam’s Apple. But sadly, that’s not the case for everyone, like, for example the late artist Norman Rockwell. And others, who consider theirs to be seriously oversized, might even contemplate chondrolaryngoplasty as a solution. See an example paper in the Indian Journal […]
The Puzzling Case of the Presurgical Spray Tan
Yet another mystery presented itself to the medical profession, and yielded to the detective powers thereof. Details are in the study: “Discourage the presurgical spray tan — Physicians were puzzled by the patient’s postoperative skin damage,” Miriam S. Krause, Henry Bohler, Steven T. Nakajima, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, epub April 2, 2013. The […]
Boring skulls since 1617
“There are lots of good reasons for making a hole in someone’s head, and in a neurosurgeon’s hands it is not a risky procedure, but for someone doing it themselves the risks are huge.” This advice, from the British Medical Journal (BMJ, 320(7235): 602.), is very probably as sound today as when it was published […]
Bubble Wrap for Surgical Patients
A veterinarian in Lake Worth, Florida reports a surgical innovation: “Bubble Wrap for Surgical Patients,” Greg J. Harrison, Journal of the Association of Avian Veterinarians, vol. 7n o. 4, 1993, p. 221. Dr. Harrison — the Harrison of Harrison’s Bird Foods — writes: “We have used regular bubble wrap to envelop avian patients undergoing long-term […]
Hockey-related injuries: Robot surgery
The Wall Street Journal reports a new kind of hockey-related injury: DOVER, N.H.—Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, a small community hospital in this coastal New England town, used a college hockey game to showcase its new technological marvel: a $1.4 million surgical robot named after Leonardo da Vinci. As the University of New Hampshire battled the University of […]