@historyachannel.bsky.socialXenotransplantation reached a grim milestone in 2022 when a genetically modified porcine heart was placed into a human chest. The patient survived just sixty days as the organ succumbed to porcine cytomegalovirus. A quiet, sterile failure of biology. #MedicalHistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Anesthesia History Calendar tinyurl.com/2s3badwm [PDF] I’ve also made this resource available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/5n857wpy #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Item in the Perth [Australia] Inquirer 24 May 1848 describing an amputation & tooth removal operations under chloroform tinyurl.com/ybv8n9sw #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: William Walker [8 May 1824-12 Sept 1860] was an American physician, lawyer, journalist & mercenary in Mexico & Central America. Briefly President of Nicaragua. Graduate of Univ of Penn Medical School tinyurl.com/3eyuvhcy #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: AE Sansom’s “On the Action of Anaesthetics; And On the Administration of Chloroform” Br Med J 1864 Sept 10 tinyurl.com/ybj9ufxm #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Patent Medicine Trade Card: Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup Co. was located in Jackson, Michigan tinyurl.com/bd4ud6dp From the Helfand Collection @NYAMHistory #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: “What If Thomas Beddoes & Humphry Davy Had Attempted Surgical Anesthesia in 1799?” tinyurl.com/yb8w3a9m #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialMedical Allegories series 32:
𝐀 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝟏𝟕𝟖𝟗
Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson (London: S.W. Fores, 1789), Reference no: Wellcome Collection 10779i, Wellcome Library, London.
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: British author Olive Norton [1913-1973] used several pseudonyms, including this one for her 1963 novel tinyurl.com/uz2kc6zr Her many books included several medical romances #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: EP Howland’s article “The Successful Administration of Nitrous Oxide as an anæsthetic for Dental and Surgical Operations” Science 10 Sept 1881 tinyurl.com/y6jfd2x2 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1955 Sept 10: U.S. TV western “Gunsmoke” premiered. Several episodes include anesthesia & surgery. A medicine show with nitrous oxide demonstrations is featured in the "Laughing Gas" episode first broadcast 29 March 1958 bit.ly/1x0UX5t #histmed #medicalhistory
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.social𝐁𝐄𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍: 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐧
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Ralph Lillie’s long article “Theory of Anaesthesia” Biological Bulletin May 1916 tinyurl.com/4fzpcx4v The nature of anesthesia is still being investigated today #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Comic: "Linda Carter Student Nurse" #7 Sept 1962. Carter later appeared in the "Night Nurse" comic tinyurl.com/y8dfr6k2 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalcomic
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "Holby City" is a British medical TV drama that premiered in Jan 1999 tinyurl.com/y9r2hk97 The show is a spinoff from "Casualty" which began Sept 1986 & is set in the same hospital tinyurl.com/yacfk5fe #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Medical Investigation” was an American TV series on NBC that ran for 20 episodes Sept 9, 2004-Mar 25, 2005. An elite team from the National Institutes of Health investigates unusual public health crises tinyurl.com/yaudnq7a #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialFolk Medicine Series 16:
𝐀 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫-𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐧, 𝐜𝐚. 𝟏𝟔𝟔𝟎
Oil Painting by Anonymous (probably Spanish, circle of Miguel March), Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/65/95, Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust, London.
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” is an American TV series that premiered Sept 8, 2021. In this version of “Doogie Howser, M.D.” young Harvard Med Sch grad juggles high school & medicine. Mother is also a physician tinyurl.com/a9re39fc & tinyurl.com/w4dep37h #medicaltv #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1873 Sept 8: French author Alfred Jarry born; his addictions included ether bit.ly/1llxS8l He died 1 Nov 1907 #histmed #medicalhistory
