Florence Nightingale’s lamp, that never was hers
Florence Nightingale is an iconic figure, and as a founder of modern nursing, is revered across the world. She is depicted on various postage stamps, bank notes, and many other…
Ilizarov and his apparatus for healing of bone defects
Ilizarov is a name most doctors, and especially those who practice orthopedics are well aware of. However, his journey from obscurity to global fame, is not much known. He invented,…
Bohler: A surgeon who gave science and method to bone setting
Individuals with fractured leg bones, often need pins, pulleys, and plaster to hold the two ends of the broken bone, close-together. As patients with this intricate system are made to…
Faith-healers who cure by calling spirits, and emotions
While healing itself is an art, many consider faith-healing as quite farther away from science. While disease is more ancient as compared to its cure, faith-healing may well be a…
Berlin doctors soon after second world war was over
Adolf Hitler killed himself on 30th April 1945, and over next two days German garrison in Berlin had surrendered. Soviet army from the east, south and north moved in to…
Nurses in Khaki, and how it all began
We usually visualize nurses to be in a white attire, but more recently the colors are often blue, green or mauve. On the other hand Khaki (a brownish yellow color)…
Dr TM Nair: A doctor politician in Madras Presidency
Many doctors may have come across a Monthly Medical Journal "The Antiseptic". This Journal - A monthly publication of medicine and Surgery, was established in the year 1904, in Madras…
Bassini led the way for a perfect hernia repair
Bassini and his injury Edoardo Bassini was an Italian surgeon, and as the fate would have it he devoted his life for a perfect hernia repair. Born in 1844, he…
Golgi and Cajal: Two adversaries who shared a Nobel Prize
The prize It was 1906, and the Nobel committee declared that that years Prize for medicine was to be given for visualization of Neurons. It was to be shared by…
Finsen’s Nobel Prize for letting light to heal
Finsen's chemical light to heal Niels Finsen was born in 1860 in Faroe Islands, a remote Danish territory located in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Norway. He lived on…