by Sue Robbins | Jan 20, 2021 | Miscellaneous
In the first joint replacement surgery in 1890, the German surgeon Themistocles Gluck implanted “carved and machined pieces of ivory” into joints diseased by tuberculosis — starting with a knee replacement for a 17-year-old girl, according to the medical historian and...
by Sue Robbins | Oct 15, 2018 | Miscellaneous
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