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
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If you enjoy visiting medical museums on your travels, two great ones to add to your list. And the curators happen to be members of our society. Sarah Halter for the Indiana Medical History Museum and Rick Fraser for the Maude Abbott Medical Museum, in Montreal.
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You will recognize that study of the skull in his Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints.
John and Charles Bell, Benjamin Bell (no relation), and Joseph Bell (no relation) are the key Bells to remember (there are others though)
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Vesalian anatomy persisted well into the 18th century. For your consideration: Tortebat/De Piles Abrege D’Anatomie, 1765.
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If you didn’t already know, pathologists are the real life main characters.
Today’s Find: “Diagnosis: Unknown” was a U.S. medical TV drama that ran July 5 until Sept 20, 1960 as a summer replacement series. Starred Patrick O’Neal as a city hospital pathologist tinyurl.com/y35d89p6 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
A rendering by the U of MI class of 1976 with Dr.Thomas Oelrich Anatomy lab of The Anatomy lesson of Dr Nicholas Tulp by Rembrandt. Creative!
Have you ever wondered about the fate of the Grand Ducal Medici family? You are in luck. Save the date Oct 28th 3pm CT and you can here all about it at our fall virtual meeting as presented by Dr. Raffaele Gaeta. Zoom link to follow at a later date…
Abstract submissions for USCAP 2027 are now open! Great opportunity to submit an abstract in the category « History of Pathology », and for trainees to win the Azar Award given by our society for the best abstract by a trainee. Check our website for more details…
A treat for the lover of kidneys! Malpighi, the 1st to describe the glomerulus “minimae glandulae” did so in his De renibus but with no drawings. These seemed to have been lost to posterity but no longer.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.gov/40268227…
The 400th anniversary of Malpighi, in 2028, is being celebrated by one of our members, Santo Nicosia, with several manuscripts. The 1st covers his life, discoveries and also struggles with colleagues who could not evolve from Galen’s teaching!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3977…
Dr. James Wright, current president of the American Osler Society and past president of our Society, with a named lecture series.
The lecture- Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew will take place Thursday April 9th.
Thank you to our speakers, Drs Jim Musser, Jeanet Guarner and Miguelina de la Garza, for a great HPS Companion meeting "From the Plagues to Pathogens".
Congratulations to Dr AlBatool AlMahdy, our Azar Award winner, who kicked off our meeting with her excellent presentation.
A first at USCAP annual meeting! History of Pathology is now an official category for posters and platforms. Over 25 abstracts will be showcased at the Stowell Orbison, Platform session and a Poster session with a walking tour. Join us for this inaugural moment!
USCAP 2026 annual meeting is just around the corner! Please join us at our Companion Meeting Sunday March 22 for a great program on Plagues.
Our own Dr Santo Nicosia, founding member of the society, had a lecture named after him. This year, the lecture will take place Feb 20th in person. The guest speaker is Dr. Salvatore Mangione “ Bugs and People: When Epidemics Change the History”.
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Dr Edith Potter, the name behind Potter’s sequence of renal agenesis, laid the foundation to perinatal pathology. During her career, she performed over 10,000 perinatal autopsies investigating deaths of babies. Read more about her by Dr Dunn ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
Tuberculosis, still a lethal infection worldwide, is the oldest documented human disease dating back to Ancient Egypt. Rampant during the Industrial Revolution, TB affected many composers and musicians of the Romantic era, Frédéric Chopin the best example. Alexandre Dumas wrote:
Congratulations to our 2026 Azar Award winner Dr AlBatool AlMahdy, resident at UMass Chan Medical School, for best abstract by a trainee “From Sophie Spitz to Molecular Melanocytoma: A Historical Journey in Spitzoid Pathology”. Looking forward to her presentation at USCAP 2026.
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A photo of Henrietta Lacks in the late 1940s. Henrietta's cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortal human cell line, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientific discoveries of the 20th century. #histmed #historyofmedicine
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Rudolf Virchow - 'The Father of Modern Pathology'. Virchow was an anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He was renowned for his advancement of public health and for discrediting humourism #histmed #historyofmedicine
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), the Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist. His investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 with Camille Golgi.