Today's Find: Cliffbourne Hospital in Washington, DC, during the Civil War tinyurl.com/y74syzkz Drawn by cartoonist Clifford Berryman for a Washington Post article published 8 Oct 1902 #histmed #medicalhistory
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Cliffbourne Hospital in Washington, DC, during the Civil War tinyurl.com/y74syzkz Drawn by cartoonist Clifford Berryman for a Washington Post article published 8 Oct 1902 #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Empty Nest” American TV comedy centered on pediatrician Harry Weston in Miami that ran for seven seasons on NBC from Oct 8, 1988, to April 29, 1995. First 5 seasons featured his work in a hospital & his Southern nurse Luverne tinyurl.com/45wy9nwe #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
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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
@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
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialFinal Reminder
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@legionarybooks.bsky.socialFrom our friends at Legio XXI Rapax. A capsa and rolled instrument pouch used by Roman medici (medics). The term "capsarsius," which denotes what we now think of as a first-responder / platoon medic, derived from the capsa each carried.
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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
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.social𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞
How were hearing, deafness & silent communication understood across premodern Societies?
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@historyachannel.bsky.socialIn April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their double-helix model of DNA. It relied on X-ray data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, including Photo 51 from Franklin's lab. Two strands, one elegant twist. #MedicalHistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: Roy Sparkia [31 Oct 1924-6 Nov 1992] was a visual artist & author who wrote several medical novels; this one published in 1961 tinyurl.com/4hrv9cd7 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Comic: "Nellie the Nurse" a Marvel title that first ran 1945-Oct 1952 tinyurl.com/yb76r52d This one is #6 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalcomic
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Medical Barbie: Dr. Barbie, Dr. Ken & Nurse Whitney, from 1987 tinyurl.com/vcsazc7y #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Book by Gregory Chapman, MD, UAB cardiologist, “A Strong & Steady Pulse: Stories from a Cardiologist” tinyurl.com/5b3bfz5z Don Noble’s review: tinyurl.com/yc4rp6yr #histmed #BirminghamAlabama #Alabama #medicalhistory
