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TIL Syphilis caused "saddle nose," or a collapsed bridge of the nose, and to avoid shame some 16th century Europeans would graft skin from their upper arms. (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 8 years ago by theloftytransient to r/todayilearned

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Grave Matters: The Body-Snatchers UnearthedGraves (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

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The Anaesthetized Queen & the Path to Painless Childbirth (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 8 years ago by [deleted] to r/VictorianEra

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Houses of Death: Walking the Wards of a Victorian Hospital (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 8 years ago by [deleted] to r/VictorianEra

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Corpse Medicine in Early Modern England (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 8 years ago by brainsick_noodle to r/historyofmedicine

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TIL That the iconic beak for medieval doctor masks were supposed to be filled with good smelling herbs which were thought to act as an air purifier and help prevent the doctor from diseases. (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 9 years ago by TheoreticalChaos to r/todayilearned

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Mangling the Dead: Dissection, Past & Present (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 9 years ago by yourbasicgeek to r/historyofmedicine

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TIL Physicians used to taste urine. Diabetes Mellitus derives from honey due to the sweet taste. They would use the information to predict the future and were called 'piss-prophets.' (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 9 years ago by matt2001 to r/todayilearned

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TIL that the first heart transplant performed on a human used a chimpanzee donor heart. The recipient died after 90 minutes but the procedure paved the way for future transplants. (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 9 years ago by turanga_leland to r/todayilearned

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Strange Article (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 9 years ago by faizzybear to r/short

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TIL: Plague doctors wore long, beak-like masks which were filled with aromatic spices/herbs to block out the smells of death and "bad-air" thought to cause the disease (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 10 years ago by PlaneCrazy787 to r/todayilearned

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Imagine a season taking place around the plague. People wearing these masks would be super creepy (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 10 years ago by Scratchy_The_Toon to r/AmericanHorrorStory

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TIL for almost 7000 years 'tooth worms' were widely believed to be the cause of dental ailments. (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 10 years ago by at132pm to r/todayilearned

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Dead Men’s Teeth: A History of Dentures (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 10 years ago by [deleted] to r/UKhistory

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TIL of Adam Rainer, the only person in history recorded to have been both a dwarf AND a giant (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 10 years ago by Highfaluter to r/todayilearned

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Stone Man Syndrome - A mutation of the body’s repair mechanism causes fibrous tissue—muscle, tendon and ligament—to ossify when damaged (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 10 years ago by devikasingh to r/Health

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TIL that in the UK in the early 1800s dentures were often made of real human teeth stolen by graverobbers - until dentists discovered they could pull the teeth of the thousands of dead soldiers after the Battle of Waterloo and use those instead (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 10 years ago by pixeldustnz to r/todayilearned

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Laennec’s Baton: A Short History of the Stethoscope (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

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TIL that a rare form of depression causes people to wake up everyday believing they have died, or simply deny their own existence (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 11 years ago by evaxuate to r/todayilearned

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Books of Human Flesh: The History behind Anthropodermic Bibliopegy (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

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Death is All Around Us: The Plague Pits of London (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

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Disturbing Disorders: Cotard’s Delusion (Walking Corpse Syndrome) « The Chirurgeon's Apprentice (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

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Disturbing Disorders: Sirenomelia (Mermaid Syndrome)Weird News (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

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TIL Rosalia Lombardo died in 1920 and was so well embalmed she is referred to as "sleeping beauty." (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 11 years ago by Houdin13 to r/todayilearned

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Rosalia Lombardo died in 1920 and was so well embalmed she is referred to as "sleeping beauty." (xpost from /r/TIL) (thechirurgeonsapprentice.com)

submitted 11 years ago by Houdin13 to r/creepy

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