History of Pathology Society
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History of Pathology Society: Dedicated to the Study of the Pathologic Sciences and to the people and events who widened the sphere of medical knowledge
Joined July 2021
William Osler, the "greatest diagnostician ever to wield a stethoscope", one of the "Big Four" founders of Johns Hopkins, was an enthusiast of the microscope "It is of equal importance with the stethoscope". He introduced a practical histology course to students at McGill in 1876
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Dr. Averill Liebow, father of modern pulmonary pathology, created plastic casts of the bronchi and vessels that changed surgeries, his passion was pulmonary hypertension and his contributions vast to both non and neoplastic lung. His memoir from Hiroshima worth a read!
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A new year, a new program for our Companion meeting at USCAP 2025 annual meeting in Boston "Serendipity: Unplanned Lucky Discoveries in Medical Sciences" with 4 great speakers. Please join us Sunday March 23rd.
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Although first described in Antiquity, the disease became known as Behcet disease after Hulusi Behcet, Turkish dermatologist, reported the classic triad of oral, genital ulcers and eye lesion in 1937. He and his colleague pathologist, Dr Oberndorfer, searched for a virus in vain.
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RT @PastMedHistory: Anatomy of the kidney from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory http…
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RT @PastMedHistory: Illustrations from the 'Kaitai Shinso', an anatomy text translated into Japanese during the Edo period. #histmed #histo…
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RT @PastMedHistory: French anatomist and naturalist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux (1797-1880) displaying one of his famous anatomical models i…
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RT @PastMedHistory: Beautiful anatomical images of the upper and lower limb by Leonardo da Vinci #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #past…
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RT @PastMedHistory: Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, painted by Albert Edelfeldt in 1885 #histmed #historyofmedicine #pasteurization #vacci…
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Congratulations to our 2025 Azar Award winner, Dr Jeremy Minkowitz, fellow at UPMC @thepathologyguy and colleagues @UPMCPathology for their work History of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Nuclei: How Clinical, Pathologic, and Molecular Details Uncovered Two Main Nuclear Morphologies
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RT @PastMedHistory: The anatomical theatre at Leiden University in the early 17th century #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedical…
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Johannes Müller (1801-58), Virchow’s teacher, applied science and exact methods to biology. He broke away from the theory of humors and was credited as the first to study the cellular composition of tumors using a microscope. His work on cancer was published in 1838
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Thank you very much to our Fall online meeting speaker, Dr Marco Pizzi for an eloquent talk about Dr Giovanni Ghedini. Read more about Dr Ghedini and the origin of the bone marrow biopsy (Br J Haematol 2022;198:943). And again congratulations to Dr Ramirez our 2024 Azar Awardee.
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We are two days away from our 2nd Fall meeting. Please join us!
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RT @HistPathSoc: Save the date Friday October 18th at 3pm CT US for our 2nd mid-Fall online meeting of our Society. You are welcome to joi…
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RT @PastMedHistory: Paul Langerhans (1847-1888) - the German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the pa…
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RT @PastMedHistory: Dissection of the thorax and spinal cord, from Mondino Dei Luzzi's Anatomia Mundini, Ad Vetustis, 1541 #histmed #histor…
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RT @PastMedHistory: 19th-century wax anatomical model showing lymph nodes of the neck by the French studio of Vasseur & Tramond, Mütter Mus…
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