@readex.com🌍 Today is Global Handwashing Day--a crucial component of public health. Explore the post-WWII emergence of the World Health Organization on the Readex Blog: https://ow.ly/e3Wu50ZXHmt
#GlobalHandwashingDay #HealthHist #HealthHistory #Histmed #PrimarySources
@rcpmuseum.bsky.socialAndreas Vesalius 16th C book 'De humani corporis fabrica' is one of the most famous books in the history of medicine & art. It shows the human body with a previously unknown level of detail, accuracy & artistic flair.
Discover more 👉
history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “RFDS: Royal Flying Doctors Service” an Australian medical TV show based on that country’s real air medical service. First series premiered 11 Aug 2021 tinyurl.com/ywrnez9v & tinyurl.com/569h3yy9 #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “China Sky” 1945 film in which Randolph Scott & Ruth Warrick star as doctors in China during World War II. Based on the 1941 Pearl S. Buck novel tinyurl.com/6yn5fbbh #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1936 Aug 9: American mystery writer Arthur B. Reeve died tinyurl.com/znw5kqf Curare makes an appearance in his 1915 novel "Gold of the Gods", one of the Craig Kennedy series tinyurl.com/ybobo2s7 Reeve was born 15 Oct 1880 #histmed #medicalhistory
@simonjones.bsky.socialIf a kind person could send me this pdf, I would be both happy and very grateful:
Leonard W. Russell, Insulin and Cardiazol: Experiences of the Combined Method, Journal of Mental Science, Volume 84, Issue 352, September 1938, pp. 672 - 676. #histmed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1854 Oct 3: William C. Gorgas born in #Toulminville #Alabama Physician & 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army best known for his work fighting mosquito-borne yellow fever & malaria in Florida, Cuba & the Panama Canal t.co/ACRNSfuv5J He died 3 July 1920 #histmed
@belgrade18.bsky.socialMy Halloween blog post went live this morning 🎃 blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...
#rarebooks #anatomy #arthistory #histmed #skeletons #halloween #libraryofcongress
@bhgross144.bsky.socialAgreed--We need more #histmed emoji!
How are we supposed to represent a noxious miasma on social media--🌫️? 🌁?!
@barbarasplendor.bsky.socialQuale posto migliore di Trento per parlare di ignoranza e conoscenza dei funghi? il 29 ottobre alla fondazione Kessler! #histscie #fungifriends #histmed
@hpscasebooks.bsky.socialCASEBOOKS THERAPY: An online support group for historians of astrology and anyone else interested in the manuscripts of a pair of doctors working in England in the 1600s: 4 Nov, 2 Dec, 3 Feb, 3 Mar, 5 May, 23 June (2–3pm UTC) dm @laurenkassell.bsky.social for link #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
@earlymodernemma.bsky.social5 weeks late for OTD, but it's always a good time to read this wonderful letter, the first I read and wrote about when I started my PhD seven(!) years ago 📝 recipes.hypotheses.org/tag/emma-mar... #EarlyModern #HistMed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "Red Cross Magazine" from Jan 1918 tinyurl.com/94derfxt Published in the U.S. 1916-Oct 1920 tinyurl.com/dx4hxe5c #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1862 Jan 10: Samuel Colt died. He toured the U.S. in the 1830's with nitrous oxide demonstrations to raise money for revolver production. This newspaper item is from Albany NY 14 Oct 1833 tinyurl.com/y66wvpqa #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social805 Oct 13: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu performed his first breast cancer operation with "tsusensan" as an oral general anesthetic. He did dozens more tinyurl.com/5hh2xs82 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Dr. Six-Gun” follows physician Ray Matson in the U.S. West in the 1870’s. Karl Weber played Matson on the NBC radio series that ran 2 Sept 1954-13 Oct 1955 tinyurl.com/39xeklbh Episodes are at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/10b1cz3a #histmed #medicalhistory
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