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| This is a photo of Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, who successfully removing his own appendix in 1961. Rogozov knew he was in trouble when he began experiencing intense pain in the lower right quadrant of his abdomen. It could only be one thing: appendicitis | #histmed #surgery #appendicitis #antartica #ProphylacticAppendectomy #self_appendectomy |
| Here’s a THREAD👇 about how smallpox – one of the deadliest & most contagious disease known to man – was used as a biological weapon during the American Revolution in one of the earliest documented examples of germ warfare. | #histmed #ID #infectiousdiseases #smallpox #inoculation #Jenner #Washington |