@historyachannel.bsky.socialDid you know the first successful kidney transplant between fraternal twins happened in 1959? While these early breakthroughs relied on genetic matches, the journey to overcome organ rejection changed medicine forever. A fascinating chapter in surgical history. #MedicalHistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Photo: Babies & hospital staff at the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indian Agency, North Dakota, ca. 1945 tinyurl.com/yy98bqju #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: This Sharon Heath [there is another author by that name] published several nurse romances tinyurl.com/mwksmztk This title published in 1967 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@edwardsdna.bsky.socialThe Humble History of the Bedpan: Over the past few centuries, inventors have tweaked the design of the receptacles here and there, but overall, not much has changed about the dependable medical supply @SmithsonianMag #MedicalHistory #HealthcareInnovation #Bedpan #MedicalSupplies #Inventors
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Newspaper article 24 Sept 1894 "Uses for Chloroform: Some Interesting Suggestions Advanced by Professor Wilder of Cornell" tinyurl.com/tqx3jan #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Item in the NY Journal 24 Sept 1896 "Morphine Killed Wachs" tinyurl.com/y8lse9u9 Wife states the drug was his only relief from heart failure #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Item in the NY Journal 24 Sept 1896 "Takes Nips of Chloroform" tinyurl.com/y8lse9u9 Emily Nevins "a chloroform fiend" arrested a fourth time #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: After his successful “Ben Casey” Vince Edwards starred in another medical TV series, “Matt Lincoln” as a psychiatrist who started a telephone hotline for troubled teens tinyurl.com/yc8ckkyn
The show ran for 16 episodes 24 Sept 1970-14 Jan 1971 #histmed #medicaltv #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "A selected list of books on military medicine and surgery: Sept 24, 1917" tinyurl.com/hn29zek #histmed #medicalhistory
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialPSMEMM 14 - Open Access
𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐜. 𝟏𝟔𝟕𝟎–𝟏𝟖𝟑𝟎.
Marsha Wübbels
@commonplacefacts.bsky.socialKings, presidents, armies, and empires have all discovered the same inconvenient fact: history is run by human bodies, and human bodies do not always cooperate. Here are 10 illnesses and conditions that genuinely changed what happened next. #History #MedicalHistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: 1888 12 June long newspaper item "Indian Arrow Poison" tinyurl.com/y7a8zkgw The exotic curare #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory The "flying death" in the O.R.: tinyurl.com/3xc6vurc
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1939 Sept 23: Sigmund Freud died. Did extensive research w/Karl Koller on cocaine #histmed #OTD tinyurl.com/4fv9yauj Did some other stuff too tinyurl.com/ye22xk6k #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: 1966 article "Halsted's Low Surgical Mortality Was the Envy of Surgeons Across the Globe" tinyurl.com/y7wfzvl3 Wm Halsted born 23 Sept 1852, died 7 Sept 1922 #histmed #medicalhistory
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialMedical Alchemy Series 13:
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝟏𝟓𝟗𝟗
from Konrad Gessner, "The Practise of the New and Old Physicke" (London: Peter Short, 1599), 39r,114r, 214v.
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1876 Aug 12: Author Mary Roberts Rinehart born tinyurl.com/y7cffgkq Despite title this 1919 collection focuses on nursing practice. Rinehart trained as a nurse & married a doctor. Most famous for her mysteries Died 22 Sept 1958 tinyurl.com/y9ocmb4p #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1791 Sept 22: English scientist Michael Faraday was born. His 1818 essay compared the effects of ether & nitrous oxide. He was working with Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution at the time. Died 25 Aug 1867 tinyurl.com/yp6fj4z3 #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Blog post "Dispensary at the Edgewater Mine, Jefferson County #Alabama in July 1946" t.co/dO8jLtOXMc #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: Essex was one of the pseudonyms used by the prolific English author Ursula Bloom [1892-1984] tinyurl.com/yvy4buyw Her numerous romances included many medical, this one published in 1964 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1952 Sept 21: At a medical meeting anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar made the first formal presentation of her newborn scoring system tinyurl.com/ymyfc3nc #histmed #medicalhistory
