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@mqassiti.bsky.social
@mqassiti.bsky.socialArchived on the Slow Disaster Podcast here:
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#histmed
@prosanitate.bsky.socialEveryone should go read Paige’s article!
@stemfem.bsky.social10/7/1845 — b. Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Swiss physician, author, suffragist. The first female doctor in Switzerland; co-founder of the first Swiss gynecological hospital (1899). Transformed medical edu for wmn, Univ of Zürich; Swiss postal stamp (2016) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed #EduSky
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(New Book) Hippocrates. Man, Medic, Myth histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/hipp... #histmed
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@chstmphds.bsky.social📢 Join us this autumn for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2026/2027!
Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom.
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: 7 Oct 1913 newspaper item “Artificial Breathing” tinyurl.com/ycwx5fyz “Continuous insufflation of air into the lungs” via windpipe tube #histmed #medicalhistory
@arttonews.comHarvey Cushing and E. A. Codman’s 1895 anesthetic record at Massachusetts General helped standardize how anesthesia was documented—an early milestone for perioperative care. #HistMed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Item from the New York Morning Herald 7 Oct 1837 about animal magnetism activity in NYC tinyurl.com/ybwpkptz #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1869 Apr 8: Neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing born. In 1895 he & E. A. Codman developed an anesthetic record at Massachusetts General Hospital tinyurl.com/3anrkxxv Cushing died 7 Oct 1935 #histmed #medicalhistory #anaesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1894 Oct 7: Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes died. In a Nov 1846 letter to William Morton he suggested the word "anaesthesia" for the effect of ether inhalation for surgery bit.ly/1086ZeF & tinyurl.com/ybk9u5v4 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social@kindkovacs.bsky.social is organising a fantastic lecture series exploring how Holocaust survivors were rehabilitated across Europe, @hait-tud.bsky.social. Something to check out, #skystorians in #histmed!
@paigedonaghy.bsky.socialDelighted to share my latest article in Gender & History ✨
“Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830”
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@dohertyta.bsky.socialToday's #HistNursing #Badge is #Edgware General Hospital
Est 1865 as pt of Hendon (Redhill) #Workhouse. Developed through the years, in 1936 a large maternity unit was added. Had an active nursing school
Closed 1997
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: One of my articles, “See You in the Funny Papers: Anesthesia in Cartoons & Comics” Int Cong Series, 2002, pp 547-551 tinyurl.com/48dcm7bh #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #medicalcartoons #medicalcomics
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Newspaper article reprinted from the Richmond Whig 6 Oct 1842 on "Animal Magnetism" tinyurl.com/yb8jtfc2 #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social2006 Oct 6: Expert in pediatric anesthesia etc C. Ronald Stephen died tinyurl.com/pfaokvt Also prominent in the anesthesia history community & certainly a mentor to me on that subject #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: 6 Oct 1916 newspaper item; patient "Talks During Operation" on his brain tinyurl.com/ybu9lv3u #histmed #medicalhistory
@monicamedhist.bsky.socialWow! I just found out about another piece on early modern plague: "The biographical dictionaries of al-Qadiri (d. 1773) and al-Hudaygi (d. 1775) reveal an increase in activity in rural areas for scholars who died after 1631." www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed #ClimateHistory