1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" tinyurl.com/d39rhoz #histmed #medicalhistory
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" tinyurl.com/d39rhoz #histmed #medicalhistory
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Exhibition) Poxed: Germs in History histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/les-... #histmed
@minouette.bsky.socialHappy birthday to #neuroscientist Hendrik Van der Loos (1929-1993) shown in my #linocut with his discovery (along with medical student Thomas Woolsey), of the barrel cortex, along with the mouse head & whiskers linked directly to it. 🧪🐡🧠 #histsci #histmed
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1888 Sept 26: Poet T.S. Eliot was born "Like a patient etherized upon a table" said his character Prufrock tinyurl.com/6p8hb Eliot died 4 Jan 1965 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1926 Sept 26: Singer & actress Julie London was born. Among other film/TV roles she starred in "Emergency!" a popular US TV show in the 1970's tinyurl.com/ap5hugo Died 18 Oct 2000 tinyurl.com/y6f3b53t #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1818 Sept 26: English physician James Blundell attempted the first human-to-human blood transfusion tinyurl.com/lglnmzy
The patient, a man named Brazier, died three days later #histmed #medicalhistory
@bookscribbler.bsky.socialJust received the Medical History preprint of my article on Dr J A B Horton. It should be online soon. #hsmt #histmed #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social #health @africanarchives.bsky.social @pbhosu.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @africanarchives.bsky.social
@monicamedhist.bsky.social"The ‘died with’ vs. ‘died of’ measles discussion misses something very important. Since every death is ultimately cardiac arrest, physicians have strict rules on how immediate and underlying causes are handled on death certificates." www.statnews.com/2026/09/25/d... Very important for #histmed, too
@monicamedhist.bsky.social"Valuing five centuries of unpaid breastfeeding in England" by economic historians Henderson & Humphries. Looks important not only for ♀️'s history but #histmed, too. 🧪🗃️
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Parution) Systèmes de santé en Afrique centrale. Dynamiques d’appropriation des politiques mondiales et enjeux de gouvernance en zone CEMAC (1945-2025) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/les-... #histmed
@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
@mpiwg.bsky.social#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅
Elizabeth Hughes introduces "Biomedical Visions: #Epistemology, #Medicine, and Art Practice." The book explores artist-scientist collaborations in #Biomedicine's past and future. 🩻
@monicamedhist.bsky.socialTonight's purchase: Philippe Guillet's new edition of L'Anathomia de Richardus Anglicus: Un traité d'anatomie physiologique de la fin du XIIe siècle. Good old-fashioned philology combined w/ real Digital Humanities smarts brings a woefully understudied text into the light. #histmed
@medinternational.bsky.socialMeet Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Abraham Trejo Terreros
Abraham investigates how medical knowledge moved across Latin America via Pan-American networks, shaping policies in Mexico and beyond during the 20th C.
🌐 research.monash.edu/en/persons/a...
#HistMed #LatinAmericanHistory #HistSci #GlobalHealth
@nichecanada.bsky.social"Unlike infectious diseases like smallpox and cholera, malaria was firmly place-based, meaning that local and environmental histories are best suited to telling its history–if we can reconstruct past environments." - @gabtm.bsky.social
@amshealthcare.caA picture is worth a thousand words. What can they teach us about history?
Using historical dissection photography, Dr. Jessica Sealey explains how the relationship between cadavers, donors, and medical education shifted over time.
Read it here: buff.ly/ZR0X1Vs
@histmedsouth.bsky.socialGentle reminder that our CFP deadline is fast approaching!
Please submit your abstract here:
sahms.wildapricot.org/submit
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