Jewish Medicine 1:
𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐲𝐞, 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲, 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲
from MS Hébreu 1181, f. 265r, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
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@aam-em.bsky.socialHenrietta Lacks: The 'immortal' cells that changed the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgB1IqGp8BE
#BlackHistory365 #HenriettaLacks #HeLaCells #OnThisDay #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #MedicalHistory #BlackWomenInHistory #InformedConsent #PreservingOurStory #TheEnglandManor
@aam-em.bsky.socialThe Legacy of Henrietta Lacks: The Black Woman Behind Modern Medicine
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ruZuXwC1ElE
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Drunken Angel” Excellent 1948 film by Akira Kurosawa in which an alcoholic doctor treats a yakuza gangster with tuberculosis #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm tinyurl.com/4xxvtpvu Eddie Muller recently screened this title on his “Noir Alley” on TCM
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Rx” a novel by Garin Cycholl. When his father dies a man takes over his name & medical practice in a new town in a politically unstable America tinyurl.com/mr44bdvp #histmed #medicalfiction #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1931 Oct 4: "Dick Tracy" comic strip launches tinyurl.com/834joas Various story lines over the years feature medical themes/scenes. Here the criminal Karpse has a problem with ether in a 1938 story tinyurl.com/y3uxyfqq
#histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Birmingham Photo of the Day (64): Medical Alumni Building" tinyurl.com/y9668jsb #Alabama #BirminghamAlabama #alabamayesterdays #histmed #medicalhistory
@historyachannel.bsky.socialIn 1985, German surgeon Erich Mühe performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy; in 1987 Philippe Mouret in Lyon did it using a video camera. From 1989 keyhole gallbladder surgery spread worldwide, sparing patients a large incision. #MedicalHistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: 3 Oct 1921 newspaper item “Writer Prepared to Undergo & Write of Gland Operation” under local anesthesia tinyurl.com/ybko9o4n #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Wikipedia has a nice list of fictional medical examiners at tinyurl.com/5b499bv4 Jack Klugman played Quincy in the NBC US TV series broadcast from 3 Oct 1976 until 11 May 1983 tinyurl.com/yk6rkjkk #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: 3 Oct 1885 newspaper article on “Ancient Anaesthetics” tinyurl.com/ybnh2mxg #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodays’ Find: Linda Caldwell’s 2020 biography of John Gorrie (3 Oct 1803 – 29 June 1855), “He Made Ice & Changed the World”, a U.S. physician who developed mechanical cooling in an effort to help his malaria & yellow fever patients tinyurl.com/3rt3c4j4 #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Anna May Wong in “King of Chinatown” She plays a physician in this 1939 crime film tinyurl.com/485f6bx8 & tinyurl.com/yc7bdkpz #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Scrubs” a U.S. medical TV series originally ran 2 Oct 2001-17 March 2010. The comedy-drama focused on physicians & nurses at a teaching hospital tinyurl.com/4d6wbusb #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Dr. Ken” an American comedy medical TV series that ran on ABC 2 Oct 2015 to 31 March 2017. Created by Ken Jeong, a physician who became a standup comedian tinyurl.com/v3kt8u8 & tinyurl.com/akxdbshc #histmed #medicaltv #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1961 Oct 2: Popular American TV medical drama "Ben Casey" premiered on ABC; the show ran until 1966 tinyurl.com/pjbc4q8 Vince Edwards starred as the young, intense--and of course handsome--neurosurgeon #medicalhistory #medicaltv #histmed
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.socialIslamic Medicine 26:
𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐜. 𝟏𝟑𝟓𝟎
from Albucasis, "Chirurgia", MS H 89 ter, f. 122r, Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, Montpellier.
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@achronicvoice.com"To this day, #midwives still quickly check #neonatal #palms, not bcos the #newborn might be divinely conceived, but because a single crease has a high incidence in those of us with a particular chromosomal anomaly known as #Trisomy21.": buff.ly/8ph7pyM
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodays’ Find: “This Woman is Dangerous” 1952 crime film with Joan Crawford & Dennis Morgan. She plays a gangster’s moll who needs risky eye surgery; he’s the surgeon. Sparks fly #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm tinyurl.com/4u63pyzn
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Every Woman her Own Midwife, Or a compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women” published in 1675 tinyurl.com/yxjjyja9 #medicalhistory #histmed
