Some curiosities of medicine.
 
A painful song ...

A Christmas Day 1809, the American surgeon Ephraim MeDowell performed the first successful salpingo-oophorectomy or removal of both fallopian tubes and ovaries. To not think about the pain, the patient sang carols.

A true mad scientist ..

Herophilus of Chalcedon dissected living convicts still live to study their internal anatomy.


Not to read the "little letters" ...

At the beginning of the century went on sale in the U.S. a drug known as Radithor for the treatment of dyspepsia, hypertension, impotence and more than 150 endocrine diseases. The drug caused many casualties among consumers, since one of its ingredients was synthesized with an ink radioactive radium 226 and 228.

Peeled but with heart ...

The bald have a higher risk of heart problems, according to the American Medical Association.


What you have to do to live in a society ..

When in 1865 he performed the autopsy to the recently deceased Dr. James Barry, surgeon of the army at the Battle of Waterloo and South Africa, was found to be a woman. By then, the medication was banned female.


No deodorant Stamina ...

Desert dwellers come to sweat up to eight liters of water daily.


Mumps deadly ..

The main cause temporary low among soldiers during the First World War were the mumps.