Category: Discoveries

Although the first great discoveries of anatomy enabled doctors to save many lives, they could not alleviate pain. Without anesthesia, surgeries were a living nightmare. Patients were held or strapped to a table, and surgeons tried to work as quickly as possible. In 1811, one woman wrote: “When the terrible steel plunged into me, dissecting […]

The human heart is a muscle the size of a fist. It beats more than a hundred thousand times a day, over seventy years – that’s more than two billion heartbeats. The heart pumps 23 liters of blood per minute. Blood flows through the body, passing through an intricate system of arteries and veins. If […]

In ancient Greece, the treatment of diseases was based more on philosophy than on a true understanding of human anatomy. Surgical intervention was rare, and dissection of cadavers was not yet practiced. As a result, physicians had little or no knowledge of the internal structure of the human being. It was not until the Renaissance […]

The ability to look inside a person It is impossible to imagine life without the next great discovery. Imagine not knowing where to operate on a patient, or which bone is broken, where the bullet is lodged, or what the pathology might be. The ability to look inside a person without cutting them open was […]