@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
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@museumofhealthcare.bsky.socialIt's all in the details✨️
The Canadian Museum of Health Care is full of hidden gems and touches that bring history to life!
Fall Hours: Wednesday to Friday 10am to 4pm
Location: 32 George Street Kingston, ON
@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
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Newspaper article 21 Sept 1909 "Blames Physicians for Many Deaths; Savant Says They are Ignorant of Chloroform Use" tinyurl.com/wtjzw8c Augustus D. Waller created first practical ECG machine tinyurl.com/4aed5axz #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1866 Sept 21: H.G. Wells was born. His story "Under the Knife" describes the narrator's experience w/chloroform anesthesia tinyurl.com/89zavxe He died 13 Aug 1946 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@dohertyta.bsky.socialToday's #HistNursing #Badge is East #Birmingham Hospital
Est 1885 as an infectious diseases hospital became a general hosp in 1953 renamed 'Heartlands' in 1993.
They treated the world's last smallpox patient in 1978
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@alexandreklein.bsky.social(New Book) Sogdian Christians. Networks, Books, Homilies, and Medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/les-... #histmed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: 1893 dime novel “Mystery of St. Agnes’ Hospital” by John Y. Coryell one of the Nick Carter series tinyurl.com/2p8cdnpc Created in 1886; many authors later continues today tinyurl.com/yckwxyfd Some scenes in the hospital; Dr. Jarvis is a main character #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1854 Sept 20: Crimean War began with the Battle of Alma. First conflict in which anesthetics were used extensively; ether had been used briefly in the U.S.-Mexican War tinyurl.com/n88p5kv #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Diagnosis: Unknown” was a U.S. medical TV drama that ran July 5 until Sept 20, 1960 as a summer replacement series. Starred Patrick O’Neal as a city hospital pathologist tinyurl.com/y35d89p6 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@monicamedhist.bsky.socialFor those who want to follow along (& I have to say, at this point, I have no idea how many days this will take), I want to give a "deep dive" into how historians of medicine (#histmed) who work on the pre-modern/pre-print era actually go about researching a question. Today, I just discovered this:
![The first part of an entry for a 13th-century English cardinal, Hugh of Evesham, who is said to have died in Rome in 1287 as the result of either "pestilence" or poisoning. Below is both the French text and an English translation.
"Hugues Atratus de Evesham. - Né à Evesham (Angleterre), il fréquenta les Universités de son pays natal, puis celles de France et d'Italie, se livrant surtout à l'étude des mathématiques et de la médecine. Il obtint des prébendes ecclésiastiques en Angleterre et fut appelé à Rome, en 1280, pour donner son avis sur des questions médicales. On a prétendu, à tort selon Marini, qu’il avait été le médecin du pape Martin IV, qui le fit cardinal."
"Hugh (the Black) of Evesham. Born at Evesham (England), he attended the universities of his home country, then those of France and Italy, focusing especially on the study of mathematics and medicine. He secured ecclesiastical prebends [appointments] in England and was called to Rome in 1280 to give his advice on medical matters. It is said (erroneously, according to Marini) that he was the (personal) physician to Pope Martin IV [r. 1281-1285], who made him a cardinal.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:twqucin7jqhlteuk37lqltr7/bafkreibhft6retz3lci4no6celltonyojiogbktouakcjrivth5e3hyjjq@jpeg)
![The latter part of an entry from Wickersheimer's 1936 biographical dictionary of medieval French medical practitioners, for a 13th-century English cardinal, Hugh of Evesham, who is said to have died in Rome in 1287 as the result of either "pestilence" or poisoning. Below is both the French text and an English translation.
"Il mourut à Rome, en 1287, du poison suivant les uns, de la peste suivant d'autres[2] et fut enterré dans l'église Saint-Laurent « in Lucina ». Il composa divers ouvrages dont deux de médecine, Canones medicinales et Super opere febrium Isaac[3]; le seul qui ait été conservé est un Sermo in dominica Septuagesime [4]."
He died in Rome, in 1287, from poisoning according to some, from "pestilence" according to others, and was interred in the church of Saint Laurence in Lucina. He composed various works of which two were on medicine: "Medical Canons" and "On Isaac [Israeli's] Work on Fevers." His only work that survives is a sermon on Septuagint Sunday [the ninth Sunday before Easter].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:twqucin7jqhlteuk37lqltr7/bafkreibfavaliqanxfw3imo4xt5qfmgfegg4iu7e5j7hnwp62mztojj5ne@jpeg)