April 29, 2024
Sometime in the 1880s an unidentified young woman drowned in Paris’s Seine River. A morgue worker made a plaster mold of her face, which became famous and was mass-produced as a decorative item. The face of Resusci-Annie, the common CPR training dummy, is modeled after the Unknown Woman of the Seine.
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The Strange, Grisly History of the First Blood Transfusion
Across many cultures, humans have regarded blood as a substance associated with vitality, renewal, and life itself, centuries before blood transfusions became a viable medical procedure. The idea of restoring health through the transfer of blood predates modern medicine, initially existing more in
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