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Daily doses of medical history 💉📜 Ancient remedies → modern miracles. Global, witty, and just the right mix of nerdy & fun. #MedHistory #MedTwitter
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Joined September 2025
Scalpels out - Month 2 of #MedHistory begins tomorrow! 🔪🩺 Theme: The History of Surgery. From ancient trepanation to modern transplants, we’ll explore how humans learned to heal with hands, steel, and science. 30 daily posts coming up, brace yourself for an exciting month! ✨
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Trepanation proves medicine began not in magic, but in action. Humans didn’t just pray for healing; they tried. Every scalpel, drill, and laser traces back to that first brave surgeon with a stone tool. 🪨➡️🔪 #MedHistory #MedTwitter 4/4
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Reasons? Ancient healers believed evil spirits caused disease, so releasing them made sense. But some trepanations might’ve relieved pressure after head injuries, a surprisingly practical idea for 7,000 BC!" 3/4
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Archaeologists have found trepanned skulls from Peru to France, circular holes cut with stone tools. Some even show bone healing, meaning the patients survived! That’s impressive for Neolithic surgery. 2/4
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Trepanation (7000 BC): The First Surgery Ever Day 1 → Long before anesthesia or antisepsis, humans drilled holes in skulls to cure headaches, seizures, or just bad vibes. Meet Trepanation (7000 BC), the OG neurosurgery. 🧙♂️💀 1/4 #MedHistory #MedTwitter #AncientHistory #FunFacts
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Between 1858 and 1918, medicine tackled sanitation, imaging, and pandemics. Which of the following firsts came last in history? A. Great Stink → London sewer system B. Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays C. Felix Hoffmann creates Aspirin D. Flu Pandemic hits worldwide 🌍😷
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✅ Correct Answer: B. Andreas Vesalius — De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) He challenged Galen by dissecting human cadavers himself, launching the modern study of anatomy.
From women’s health manuscripts to the birth of antiseptic surgery, between 1100 and 1867, which match is correct? A. Avicenna — Germ Theory of Disease B. Vesalius — De Humani Corporis Fabrica C. Louis Pasteur — Blood Circulation D. William Harvey — The Canon of Medicine
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And that’s a wrap on Month 1. From Imhotep to Penicillin, we traveled 5,000 years of medical history 🏺🦠💊. Ancient wisdom, bold experiments, and world-changing discoveries, all leading to modern medicine. Tomorrow, we begin Month 2: The History of Surgery 🔪🩺 #MedHistory
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Today, thanks to Salk, Sabin (oral vaccine), and global vaccination efforts, polio survives only in a few corners of the world. The shot truly echoed around the planet. 🌍💉 #MedHistory #PublicHealth 6/6
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When asked who owned the patent, Salk replied: ‘There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?’ ☀️ He gave the vaccine freely to humanity, a gift that cut global cases by >99% and inspired modern eradication campaigns. 5/6
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On April 12, 1955, the vaccine was declared ‘safe, effective, and potent. Church bells rang, tears flowed, and classrooms cheered. The world finally had a defense against polio. 4/6
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Salk, a quiet researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, developed a killed-virus vaccine, safe, effective, and ready for human trials. In 1954, 1.8 million children joined the largest clinical trial in history, the Polio Pioneers. 3/6
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Before Salk, polio outbreaks paralyzed tens of thousands each summer. Swimming pools closed, playgrounds emptied, and fear gripped entire cities. The virus spared no one, even FDR wasn’t immune 2/6
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Jonas Salk & The Shot Heard Around the World (1950s) Day 31 →In the 1950s, parents feared one word more than any other: Polio. Jonas Salk changed that, with a vaccine that stopped paralysis and made him a global hero. 🌍💉 1/6 #MedHistory #MedTwitter #AncientHistory #FunFacts
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Penicillin opened the antibiotic age, from strep throat to pneumonia. But today, antibiotic resistance threatens that miracle. Fleming himself warned: ‘The ignorant man may easily underdose himself and make microbes resistant.’ ⚠️ #MedHistory #MedTwitter
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By WWII, Penicillin was saving soldiers from sepsis and gangrene. Civilian use followed, turning once-fatal infections into minor inconveniences. Life expectancy soared, and surgery entered a new era of safety.
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Fleming published his findings but couldn’t mass-produce the fragile drug. It took a decade (and a world war) before Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, and their Oxford team perfected purification, and Penicillin became a wartime miracle.
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Fleming left petri dishes of Staphylococcus uncovered while on vacation. When he returned, one dish had a blue-green mold - Penicillium notatum - that had wiped out the bacteria nearby. He’d stumbled onto a bacterial assassin.
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Penicillin: The Mold That Saved Millions (1928) Day 30 → In 1928, Alexander Fleming noticed a strange mold killing bacteria in his petri dish. That accident gave the world Penicillin, and medicine’s first true antibiotic. 💊🦠 #MedHistory #MedTwitter #AncientHistory #FunFacts
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The 1918 pandemic reshaped global health. It led to the creation of national health departments, advanced virology, and surveillance systems, lessons revisited a century later in 2020. History really does repeat. #MedTwitter #MedHistory
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