Month: July 2025

Malpighi and discovery of capillaries Marcello Malpighi, was born in Italy in the year 1628. It was the same year, when an English Physician William Harvey had discovered circulation of blood. Blood flows out from heart through the arteries, Harvey discovered and is returned back to it by veins. What connects arteries and veins was… Continue reading Malpighi and beyond: Italian legacy with a microscope

It is extremely rare for a medical doctor to eventually become a Professor of physics. Further, he not only invented opthalmoscope – an instrument we use to look inside an eye, but also unravelled mysteries of sound, principles of mathematics, as well as that of human thought. This person is Hermann Helmholtz, who initially trained as… Continue reading Helmholtz made it possible to look inside the eye

Early in 2020, Australia Post issued a set of four postage stamps on Medical Innovations. These stamps are bright and attractive, and each of these innovations were disruptive for the existing practices. Lets explore these, from the most recent to the more established. Spray on Skin Cells Fiona Wood is the first woman plastic surgeon… Continue reading Four medical innovations with an Australian link

Health in stamps, this blog post site turns three today. It was 10th July 2022, when the site was live with its first post. In fact it was borne out of sheer boredom in the preceding months. I had binge-watched one show after another on OTT platforms, swiped one reel after another on instagram, and… Continue reading Health in Stamps was born today, three years ago

We share a common environment with all other plants and animals. This is not merely a co-existence, but at times a competition for resources such as food and habitat. Our growing numbers, and expansion in available land for settlements, cultivation, and often adventure brings us in a close to the animal kingdom. Micro-organisms live within… Continue reading Zoonoses: Why diseases from animals now pass on to us