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Yoga is a form of exercise and contemplation that endeavors to fuse the soul with the Supreme Being. It has a long history in India; nowadays its ...
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Die Eingeweide (The interstines): Feldtbuch der Wundartzney, newlich getruckt, und gebessert MDXXXV
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Le Chirurgien de Campagne: Paris 1747
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Der verwundete Mann (The wounded man): Feldtbuch der Wundartzney, newlich getruckt, und gebessert MDXXXV
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Bernardi Siegfried Albini Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.
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Anatomia humani corporis: Amsterdam 1685: Abdominal cavity
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The examination of a young surgeon: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
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Opera quae extant graece et latine veterum codicum collation restitute novo ordine in quattuor classes digesta, interpretationis latinae emendation & scholiis illustrate a Hieron Mercuriali Torolisiense. Venetiis: Industria ac sumptibus juntarum, 1588
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Scultetus, Johannes Francofurti, Sumptibus viduae Joan. Gerlini, bibliop. Ulm, typis Joannis Gerlini, 1666 Armamentarium chirurgicum bipartitum
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Aderlasspunkte. (Points for blood-letting): Feldtbuch der Wundartzney, newlich getruckt, und gebessert MDXXXV
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Anatomie méthodique, ou Organographie humaine en tableaux synoptiques, avec figures. A l'usage des universities, pour les facultés et écoles de médecine et de chirurgie, les académies de peinture et de sculpture, et les collèges royaux.
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Anatomie méthodique, ou Organographie humaine en tableaux synoptiques, avec figures. A l'usage des universities, pour les facultés et écoles de médecine et de chirurgie, les académies de peinture et de sculpture, et les collèges royaux.
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Illustration depicting hernia in a female patient; also indicating location of previously removed left dermoid cyst and adherent sigmoid.
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Die Knochenanatomie (Anatomy of the skeleton): Feldtbuch der Wundartzney, newlich getruckt, und gebessert MDXXXV
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Anatomie méthodique, ou Organographie humaine en tableaux synoptiques, avec figures. A l'usage des universities, pour les facultés et écoles de médecine et de chirurgie, les académies de peinture et de sculpture, et les collèges royaux.
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The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey: London 1665
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Anatomie méthodique, ou Organographie humaine en tableaux synoptiques, avec figures. A l'usage des universities, pour les facultés et écoles de médecine et de chirurgie, les académies de peinture et de sculpture, et les collèges royaux.
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Although no longer used, St. Luke's Hospital has an operative amphitheater which was home to many historic surgical breakthroughs. This sign obviously predates modern techniques of surgical asepsis.
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St.Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital has been involved with the earliest research in cardiac surgery and performed the first open-heart surgical procedure in New York State in 1954
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Research performed on early techniques of cardiac bypass as well organ perfusion systems for renal transplant was performed in the St. Luke's laboratory
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Although the Sisters of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion originally took charge of the nursing in the hospital, a shortage of adequately trained nurses available led to the formal creation of the nursing school in 1888
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The history of the St. Luke's Hospital Training School for Nurses can be traced to the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion, which was created in 1845 by the Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D. (1796-1877).
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