I found this advertisement placard in a vinyl album, and decided to play the card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams

Edit pictures of the card https://pixelfed.ca/p/bane_killgrind/821853386900164062

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

This wasn't the first open heart surgery... opening/repairing the pericardium is not open heart surgery. Even in the wikipedia article, it specifically says "heart surgery." In the cited sources from wikipedia, the listed first 'open heart surgery' isn't until 1952.

I knew something was weird when I read your title, because that and the machine for heart-lungs in 1953 are always taught as huge leaps.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's not a big deal, just one of those things that was jarring to read because I knew I had heard it differently in the past. It's more irritating to me that I knew the 'open heart surgery' thing well, and hadn't heard about this. Shows what some people are concerned with.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Why would you make the main link to less accessible YouTube instead of more-accessible Wikipedia?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I made a video about how I learned about the guy. I thought the card record was neat.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Please prioritize links to accessible content

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's their video, they're sharing their work. If you understand this and still think their link doesn't belong here? Get lost.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Fascinating, truly.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    I don't mean this in a negative way but I'm so sick of the narrative that skin color has anything to do with people's capabilities.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Brown skinned and for present day things I'd say race shouldn't matter... But for fucking 1893? Just 30 years after the civil war? Can you imagine the challenges they faced in society during that time? It was probably double or triple as hard to get where they were vs if a white man had followed the same path.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    It has seemed for years that, with a large population of people with a superiority complex over others, Americans keep feeling the need to convince everyone that non-white people are, and have always been, just as useful and talented as white people.

    Another take is "Breaking! People achieve things.. And some of those people have skin tones darker than pure ivory. Amaze!"

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ditto but for me it's the constant men vs women sex rage bait

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