@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: British author Rona Shambrook wrote over 50 romances 1942-2001 under this pseudonym, many medical tinyurl.com/3653farn This one published in 1950 #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1869 Sept 17: Doctor Peter Mark Roget died. He worked with Thomas Beddoes & Humphry Davy on nitrous oxide experimentation in England in 1799, long before he began work on his thesaurus tinyurl.com/y9hrsvtk & tinyurl.com/mr25mskk Born 18 Jan 1779 #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: “Julia” was an American TV comedy that ran from 17 Sept 1968 until 23 March 1971. Diahann Carroll played a nurse working in the office of a doctor played by Lloyd Nolan tinyurl.com/y4jxpuk9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv
@historybeagle.bsky.socialJust going through the bad coughs section of this 1758 recipe book. Two snail waters with different approaches: one insists you keep the snails dirty, the other insists you scour them. (also gory detail of how to keep snails from leaving pan. Poor snails.) #HistMed
@historybeagle.bsky.socialGorgeous recipe book to start the day. #HistMed #Warwickshire
@beapichel.bsky.socialReally excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Lecture) Beyond Contagion. Rethinking the History of Leprosy in the Medieval Mediterranean histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/repe... #histmed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social2020 Mar 12: South Korean medical TV series “Hospital Playlist” premiered & follows five doctors who met in medical school & now work in the same hospital. Oh, and they have a band tinyurl.com/st4bbdu #histmed #OTD A second season ran 17 June-16 Sept 2021
@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
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@histofsex.bsky.socialFor a little about what we _do_ know about the history of #contraception, have a look at this interview. #histsex #histmed
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Call for papers) Inside/Insight: Popular and biomedical representations and the aesthetics of the inner body histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/repr... #histbody #histmed
@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 “Doctor in the House” books bit.ly/1BfVYFv He died 11 Aug 2017 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
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