Today's Find: John Ulrich Giesy was an American physician & prolific author of fantasy stories tinyurl.com/ydh7og28
& tinyurl.com/yblq9utp Born Aug 6, 1877, died Sept 8, 1947. This issue of “Adventure” with his story "The Signal Fire" published May 1916 #histmed #medicalhistory

1637 Sept 8: English physician Robert Fludd died. One of the earliest to time the pulse bit.ly/1rELdv8 Supported Harvey's blood circulation idea. Born 17 Jan 1574 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: DeForest Kelley played lab chief Greene in “Police Story” a pilot for a TV series that was never picked up. Broadcast 8 Sept 1967 tinyurl.com/y27mjrcn Written by “Star Trek” creator Gene Rodenberry tinyurl.com/46799nme #histmed #medicalhistory

Niels Finsen won the 1903 Nobel Prize for developing phototherapy to treat lupus vulgaris. By using concentrated light, he pioneered a method to combat the mycobacterium tuberculosis in skin lesions, marking a major milestone in medical history. #MedicalHistory

Today’s Find: “Doctor John” is a South Korean medical TV series that ran for 16 episodes in 2019 July 19 until Sept 7 tinyurl.com/8398f8ss Major characters include an anesthesiologist & anesthesia fellow & resident #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1922 Sept 7: Surgeon William Halsted died. Among many other achievements, in 1884 he was one of the first Americans to research cocaine for local anesthesia bit.ly/1lkCpYx #medicalhistory #histmed #anesthesiahistory

1846 Sept 7: Gilbert Abbott met with surgeon John Collins Warren in Boston about his neck tumor; the Oct 16 surgery is now known as Ether Day tinyurl.com/2s3feywm First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, by Wm Morton #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1677 Sept 7: Stephen Hales was born. Performed early measurements of blood flow, volume & pressure etc bit.ly/1nJTPJU Died 4 Jan 1761 #histmed #medicalhistory

Medical Humanism Series 14:

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White marble, Inventory no: Cl. 11115, Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris.

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Today's Vintage Book Cover: From Sept 1964 tinyurl.com/yaflc7kq One of several nurse romance novels by Caroline Trench #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction #nursingfiction

1821 Sept: Thomas De Quincy’s “The Confessions of an English Opium Eater” began to appear in “London Magazine” tinyurl.com/zth2dct8 Published in book form the following year, & a second ed. in 1823. De Quincy revised it in 1856 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: “A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.” published 1924 & edited by Agnes C. Vietor. Early chapters are autobiographical, originally published in 1860. Lived 6 Sept 1829-12 May 1902 tinyurl.com/37aznc53 & tinyurl.com/ypxck2rn #medicalhistory #histmed

Today's Find: Item in the NY Journal 6 Sept 1896 "Hypnotism in Surgery: Cuban Lieutenant's Frightful Wound Dressed w/out Pain While He Is Hypnotized" tinyurl.com/ycplef2u Includes 2 illustrations #histmed #medicalhistory #hypnotism

Today’s Find: In the 1950 film “Backfire” Virginia Mayo plays a nurse at a VA hospital who falls in love with a patient. Complications follow tinyurl.com/22w6hr5r #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm

Today’s Find: Willy Ley’s article “Medicine & Space” in the Sept 1949 issue of “Startling Stories”. Ley (1906-1969) was a scientist & prolific author esp. on rockets & space travel tinyurl.com/529ysthz #histmed #medicalhistory

Today's Find: George Johnson, "Remarks on the Physiology of Anaesthesia" Br Med J 5 Sept 1868 tinyurl.com/y54s8eyp #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

When his playing days were over, Miller ran into something no curveball could touch: tuberculosis. In the 1920s, before antibiotics, there was no reliable cure. #TuberculosisHistory #MedicalHistory

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Alice Ross Colver [1892-1988] published a number of romances, some medical tinyurl.com/jx6vmv34 This one from 1964 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

Today’s Find: George H. Savage’s article in Br Med J 3 Dec 1887 “Insanity Following the Use of Anaesthetics in Operations” Savage [b. 12 Nov 1842, d. 5 July 1921] was a prominent English psychiatrist tinyurl.com/46z53sx7 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory