Today's Find: 16 Sept 1902 newspaper item on anesthesia by carotid artery compression in Java "The method is absolutely harmless." tinyurl.com/ycqhezyf #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: 16 Sept 1902 newspaper item on anesthesia by carotid artery compression in Java "The method is absolutely harmless." tinyurl.com/ycqhezyf #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "Breaking Point" was a U.S. TV medical drama that ran Sept 16, 1963 until April 27, 1964. Paul Richards starred as chief resident in psychiatry tinyurl.com/rfr28gf The show was a "Ben Casey" spinoff #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1744 Feb 5: American physician, scientist, military surgeon John Jeffries born tinyurl.com/y4c9odx6 One of the first Americans to keep detailed weather observations. Accompanied Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the Eng. Channel. Died 16 Sept 1819 #histmed #medicalhistory
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialMiraculous Healings Series 11:
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Oil on panel by Pieter Aertsen, Object number: SK-A-4892, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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@500ways.bsky.socialDiscover the worst adoption of anesthesia. It's free and complete at worlds-worst-website.com/worst-adopti... ( #anesthesia, #medicine, #medical, #chloroform, #ether, #generalAnesthesia, #medicalHistory, #discoveryOfAnesthesia, #earlyMedicine, #QueenVictoria, #anesthetic)
@sixstonejars.coHeroin cough syrup, OxyContin, Vioxx: medicine has big reversals in its history. The useful lesson isnβt 'trust nothing.' Itβs: confidence should match evidence and absolute benefit matters. sixstonejars.co/medical-reve...
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@historyachannel.bsky.socialCataract couching in 1460 relied on a sharp needle forced into the ocular globe to displace the opaque lens. Practitioners often bypassed the pupil, shoving the clouding cataract into the vitreous humor to restore a blurred, distorted sense of light. Crude, messy, and perilous. #MedicalHistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1884 Sept 15: Colleague reported at a medical meeting in Heidelberg about Karl Koller's successful use of cocaine for local anesthesia tinyurl.com/5n6bcfz3 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1921 Sept 15: UK anaesthetist Gordon Ostlere born. As Richard Gordon he authored the βDoctor in the Houseβ books bit.ly/1BfVYFv He died 11 Aug 2017 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Betty Neels [b. 15 Sept 1909 d. 7 June 2001] wrote more than 130 romances published by Mills & Boon in England then by Harlequin in the U.S. tinyurl.com/8w2429vr This one from 1974 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1890 Sept 15: Mystery writer Agatha Christie born. She died 12 Jan 1976. tinyurl.com/pyn373r #histmed #medicalhistory
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: Marjorie Hart published several medical romances between 1961 & 1973, this one in 1963 tinyurl.com/vrbjawcj #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodayβs Find: Anna DeForest is a physician whose first novel is βA History of Present Illnessβ published in 2022 anna-deforest.com A young woman begins her medical training #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1914 Sept 14: Newspaper article noting that in San Francisco "Mother Tells of New Modern Miracle that Produces Painless Birth" i.e., "twilight sleep" w/scopolamine tinyurl.com/yb3ewbwg #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialMedical Astrology Series 19:
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from Pliny the Elder, "Historia mundi naturalis" (Frankfurt, 1582), p. 202.
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@mabelquill.bsky.socialPhineas Gage Survives the Impossible On September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage survived a tamping iron passing through his skull, creating a landmark case in the study of brain injury. #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #PhineasGage #BrainScience #MedicalHistory #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
@theoff-keybard.bsky.social But the story didn't end with βGage was no longer Gage.β
His later life may also tell us something remarkable about the brain's ability to adapt.
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodayβs Find: These dolls were associated with McCallβs magazine 1941-2000 tinyurl.com/23d97xrr #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "Medic" program ran for 59 episodes 13 Sept 1954 to 27 Aug 1956. First American medical TV show to attempt realistic depictions of clinical procedures. Richard Boone introduced episodes as Dr. Konrad Styner & appeared in some tinyurl.com/h5tk5ml #histmed #medicalhistory
