@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1752 June 13: English novelist Frances Burney born. On Sept 30, 1811, Burney underwent a mastectomy for suspected breast cancer; she refused drugs & alcohol. In 1812, Burney wrote a letter abt her experience of surgery w/out anesthesia tinyurl.com/zqquny9 #medicalhistory
@historyachannel.bsky.socialIn 1909, Sahachiro Hata, in Paul Ehrlich's Frankfurt lab, found that arsenic compound No. 606 fought syphilis. Launched as Salvarsan in 1910, it was the first effective syphilis drug: Ehrlich's 'magic bullet', harsh but revolutionary. #MedicalHistory
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@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodayโs Find: Dr. Mark Piper [Paul Fix] was the first physician aboard the USS Enterprise in "Star Trek:The Original Series" when the TV show premiered in 1966. He was soon replaced by Leonard McCoy [DeForest Kelley] tinyurl.com/4yuvzhnt #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodayโs Find: โThe Indian Doctorโ a British medical comedy that ran for 15 episodes in 2010-2013. The titular character begins practice in a mining village in south Wales in the 1960โs tinyurl.com/2yuexw9d #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1927 Sept 29: Dutch physician & Inventor of the first practical ECG/EKG Willem Einthoven died tinyurl.com/md24rah Won a Nobel Prize in 1924. Born 21 May 1860 #histmed #medicalhistory
@byteandpieces.bsky.social๐ฃ New Podcast! "Monsters in White Coats: The Most Terrifying Medical Experiments in History" on @Spreaker #coldwar #darkhistory #darktruth #educational #ethics #eugenics #historybuff #historypodcast #humanrights #investigativepodcast #medicalatrocities #medicalethics #medicalhistory #science
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialTodayโs Vintage Book Cover: Margaret E. Sangster [1894-1981] was a prolific author of short stories, novels and radio scripts; this title is her only medical novel tinyurl.com/4rafbcfy #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Photo: Patients at the Soboba Indian Hospital in California ca. 1940 tinyurl.com/yaunguzy #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: 28 Sept 1887 reprint of newspaper article "The Chloroform Myth" and its supposed use by robbers tinyurl.com/y9arqhc2 #histmed #medicalhistory
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@anthempress.bsky.socialForthcoming! Presents the very first global treatment of eugenics, pursuing a thematic approach in individual countries. See here โก๏ธ tinyurl.com/4tu97xp7 @uarkansas.bsky.social #Eugenics #HistoryOfEugenics #GlobalEugenics #HistoryOfScience ##MedicalHistory #PublicHealthHistory #AnthemPress
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: This novel by William Johnston was a tie-in to "The Nurses" TV series broadcast in the U.S. Sept 27, 1962, to May 11, 1965 tinyurl.com/y724zr59 Johnston was a prolific author tinyurl.com/mrxz2mah #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "Marcus Welby, MD", was a very popular U.S. TV show that ran from 1969-1976 tinyurl.com/ydeldr7w Robert Young played the kindly family doctor. This Sept 27, 1969 issue was the first of several featuring the show on the cover #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1885 Sept 27: Newspaper item "Curiosities of Local Anaesthesia" About two items in the Sept 19 issue of the "New York Medical Journal" #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" tinyurl.com/d39rhoz #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: "Carol's Second Act" is a US TV medical comedy about a woman who has raised 2 children, retires from teaching, goes to medical school & is beginning her internship tinyurl.com/yy9caskl Premiered on CBS Sept 26, 2019; cancelled May 2020 #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1888 Sept 26: Poet T.S. Eliot was born "Like a patient etherized upon a table" said his character Prufrock tinyurl.com/6p8hb Eliot died 4 Jan 1965 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1926 Sept 26: Singer & actress Julie London was born. Among other film/TV roles she starred in "Emergency!" a popular US TV show in the 1970's tinyurl.com/ap5hugo Died 18 Oct 2000 tinyurl.com/y6f3b53t #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1818 Sept 26: English physician James Blundell attempted the first human-to-human blood transfusion tinyurl.com/lglnmzy
The patient, a man named Brazier, died three days later #histmed #medicalhistory
