Tag: Julius Bonello
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Sam McGee, Dan, and me
Julius BonelloPeoria, Illinois, United States We had just finished an endoscopic procedure and the patient had left the room. We were scurrying around in the dark getting ready for the next patient. As ‘50s and ‘60s music played in the background, we challenged each other to random trivia questions. Thinking that I was “better than…
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Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Julius BonelloEmma RyanPeoria, Illinois, United States The colonel had had enough of her disrespect. He would consult his general about this nasty old woman. “I didn’t know we had any nasty old women in our Army,” General Sherman remarked. “Who might she be now?” “I believe she calls herself Bickerdyke, sir.” “Mother Bickerdyke?” the general…
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Grave robber or father of experimental surgery: A look into the life of John Hunter
Julius BonelloKathy SlaterPeoria, Illinois, United States That the true idea of Life existed in the mind of John Hunter, I do not entertain the least doubt.– Samuel Taylor Coleridge The silence of the graveyard was broken by the grunts of laboring men and the sound of shovels slicing through fresh ground. “Shhhhh, don’t be so…
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Joshua Chamberlain: The last casualty of the US Civil War
Julius BonelloCassandra PalmerPeoria, Illinois, United States “The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, in which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that…
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The history of the C-section
Julius BonelloAjoke IrominiPeoria, Illinois, United States A procedure that removes a live fetus through an abdominal incision in a pregnant woman is known as a Cesarean section or C-section. Its original intention was to remove a dead baby from a dying or dead mother. Therefore, Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) was not delivered by Cesarean Section…