1884 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
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@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
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Betty Neels [b. 15 Sept 1909 d. 7 June 2001] wrote more than 130 romances published by Mills & Boon in England then by Harlequin in the U.S. tinyurl.com/8w2429vr This one from 1974 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1890 Sept 15: Mystery writer Agatha Christie born. She died 12 Jan 1976. tinyurl.com/pyn373r #histmed #medicalhistory
@monicamedhist.bsky.socialMedical historian here. The authors represented here didn't live until the 13th & 14th cents. This is very typical of the later medieval/early modern period in Ireland. (Not a specialist on Irish medicine, but I've worked w/ the Irish Trotula.) www.dias.ie/ga/celt/celt... #histmed #MedievalMedicine
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: Marjorie Hart published several medical romances between 1961 & 1973, this one in 1963 tinyurl.com/vrbjawcj #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Anna DeForest is a physician whose first novel is “A History of Present Illness” published in 2022 anna-deforest.com A young woman begins her medical training #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1914 Sept 14: Newspaper article noting that in San Francisco "Mother Tells of New Modern Miracle that Produces Painless Birth" i.e., "twilight sleep" w/scopolamine tinyurl.com/yb3ewbwg #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Call for applications) Postdoctoral Researcher position at @mcgill.ca Social Studies of Medicine Department histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/09/post... #histmed
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@dohertyta.bsky.socialToday's #HistNursing #Badge is #Dulwich Hospital
Opened in 1887 as the Southwark workhouse hospital w/ 24 #Nightingale wards. It was a #WW1 military hospital. It closed 2005
More info ezitis.myzen.co.uk/dulwich.html
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@monicamedhist.bsky.socialI've just found out today that a comment I submitted to Science last year (an "eLetter") which I had been led to believe would be permanently open-access, has now been pulled behind the journal's paywall. I have therefore just posted an archival version here: doi.org/10.17613/qb4... #histmed 🧪🗃️
@monicamedhist.bsky.socialThis is indeed very cool. Very commonly found in early medieval medical manuscripts, you can prognosticate the patient's outcome based on their name. #MedievalSky #histmed
@sshmedicine.bsky.social@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: These dolls were associated with McCall’s magazine 1941-2000 tinyurl.com/23d97xrr #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social“Gunsmoke” episode “Home Surgery” on radio 13 Sept 1952 & TV 8 Oct 1955. Rancher has gangrenous leg & Marshall Dillon has to amputate. Surgery not shown, just preop prep—boiling water, bandages, horse tail hair to tie off arteries & liquor consumption. Patient dies #histmed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "Medic" program ran for 59 episodes 13 Sept 1954 to 27 Aug 1956. First American medical TV show to attempt realistic depictions of clinical procedures. Richard Boone introduced episodes as Dr. Konrad Styner & appeared in some tinyurl.com/h5tk5ml #histmed #medicalhistory
