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Greek physician Galen (ca. 129—ca. 210), was that blood was manufactured continuously in the liver and used up by the body as fast as

Balloon angioplasties as a treatment for angina (or chest pains) are a case in point, it seems. With an angioplasty, a balloon is inflated

The most universal expression of all is a smile, which is rather a nice thought. No society has ever been found that doesn’t respond

In his book Into the Gray Zone, Owen discusses the case of a patient named Amy who suffered a serious head injury in a

In the late winter of 1944, while on a bombing run over Germany, Flight Sergeant Alkemade, the tail gunner on a British Lancaster bomber,

real blood has some practical problems. For one thing, it must be kept refrigerated. That makes it difficult to use on battlefields or accident

William Osler, author of The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), the most influential medical textbook of the nineteenth century, spoke in favor of

Consider the unfortunate death of George Washington. In December 1799, not long after he had retired as America’s first president, Washington spent a long

On top of all that, every person’s immune system is unique, making immune systems harder to generalize, harder to understand, and harder to treat

Shiro Ishii, the physician who had conceived and run Unit 731, was extensively debriefed and then allowed to return to civilian life. The existence