Today’s Find: 3 Oct 1921 newspaper item “Writer Prepared to Undergo & Write of Gland Operation” under local anesthesia tinyurl.com/ybko9o4n #histmed #medicalhistory
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@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
@marcgozlan.bsky.social🔥 Comment un corps humain peut-il être retrouvé presque entièrement brûlé, alors que son environnement l’est à peine ?
Depuis près de trois siècles, le phénomène de la « combustion humaine spontanée » déroute médecins et enquêteurs.
www.lemonde.fr/realites-bio... [Rediff] #histmed #medecinelegale
@stemfem.bsky.social10/2/1846 — b. Eliza Maria Mosher, American physician, educator, author. The first dean of wmn, Univ of Michigan; founder, American Posture League. Editor, Medical Wmn’s Journal (1905-28); wrote ‘Health & Happiness: A Message to Girls’(1912) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed #womenwriters
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Call for applications) NIH History Post-Doc Opportunities histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/post... #histmed
@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
@drannehanley.bsky.socialAmazing #postdoc opportunity on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project "The Night Shift", run by @kristinhussey.bsky.social. #histmed #hospitals #sleep www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTD047/r...
@klostermedizin.de"Eine Augensalbe aus 'Bald's Leechbook', einem medizinischen Kompendium aus dem 10. Jahrhundert, hat erstaunliche Wirkungen – zumal gegen multiresistente Bakterien."
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
@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.social1964 Oct 1: Baseball greats Don Drysdale, Leo Durocher & Willie Mays appeared in "The Donna Reed Show" episode "Play Ball" as volunteer orderlies at the hospital where husband Alex is a pediatrician & to play in a charity game tinyurl.com/y248wtyp
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1893 Oct 1: Author Faith Baldwin born tinyurl.com/zga5ah7 She wrote over 100 novels, including a few medical ones #histmed #histnursing She died 18 March 1978 #medhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gyLe Chien, de la thérapeutique populaire aux cultes sanitaires, D. Gourevitch.
#animhist #histmed
https://www.persee.fr/doc/mefr_0223-4874_1968_num_80_1_7554
@lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gyMicrobiens avant la lettre :
https://bsky.app/profile/maitre-poulard.bsky.social/post/3mwsejorb6t2x
#histsci #histmed
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🗓️ "Cold War Internationalism & Its Afterlives: Emotions, Everyday Labour, & Transnational Encounters"
📍 Monash Prato Campus, Italy + Online (Sept 9–10, 2027)
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