The discovery at Rutgers on October 19, 1943, showed the potential of soil microorganisms to produce life saving medicines and helped open a new chapter in the fight against infectious disease.

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⚖️ Complicated Credit: The lifesaving discovery also sparked a bitter legal dispute over recognition and royalties between student and professor.

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oday's Vintage Book Covers: Prolific novelist & poet Fanny Howe wrote two novels as Della Field, "Vietnam Nurse" [1966] & "West Coast Nurse" [1963] tinyurl.com/3vp7ncuf #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

1848 Oct 19: Physician Samuel Guthrie died. Identified chloroform & wrote his findings in summer 1831. Independently Soubeiran in Oct & Liebig in Nov that year also identified the same compound bit.ly/1o1QRX8 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: “Crime Doctor” CBS radio series 4 Aug 1940-19 Oct 1947. The main character, a criminal, suffers amnesia after a head injury & then becomes a psychiatrist tinyurl.com/43y57x4s Spawned a series of 10 films #histmed #medicalhistory

History of Pharmacy Series 23:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝟏𝟑𝟑𝟕
from King James III of Majorca, Leges palatinae, MS 9169, c. 31r (detail), Royal Library of Belgium (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), Brussels.

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From drilling holes in skulls to treating gladiators and transforming barber surgeons into medical pioneers, the history of surgery is as fascinating as it is unexpected.

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Today’s Find: “Observations on the Operation and Use of Mercury in the Venereal Disease” by Andrew Duncan published in 1772 tinyurl.com/39frnpy3 #histmed #medicalhistory

Arthur Conan Doyle Based Sherlock Holmes on a Real-Life Scottish Surgeon Who Used Deduction to Diagnose Patients and Investigate Crimes www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arth... #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: “Dr. X-Surgeon” is a Japanese TV medical drama that premiered in October 2012. Actress Ryoko Yonekura stars as a freelance surgeon at various university hospitals. Ran for 7 seasons tinyurl.com/y7bkqwvs #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Oct 18: Catholic feast day of St. Luke the Evangelist, a physician and patron of physicians & surgeons among other groups tinyurl.com/dm67n5er Also National Doctors Day in Brazil tinyurl.com/4kjx2z84 #histmed #medicalhistory

The gastric bullet wound of James Garfield proved fatal not from the projectile, but from the unsterilized fingers of physicians probing his abdomen in 1881. Modern antiseptic technique remained a concept ignored by the establishment, leading to sepsis and agony. #MedicalHistory

1846 Oct 17: At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston surgeon George Hayward removed large arm tumor from a patient with William Morton giving the second ether anesthetic at that facility bit.ly/1rVhjjf #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1989 Aug 28: Sir Robert Macintosh died. Published a classic "Lancet" article about his #laryngoscope in Feb 1943 bit.ly/GM9acP He was born 17 Oct 1897. First professor of anesthesia outside the U.S. #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Perry Davis' Pain Killer contained opium, alcohol & other stuff tinyurl.com/2mb57kv3 Formulated in 1839 it became the first analgesia nationally advertised in the US. #histmed #medicalhistory

He drilled into skulls, won the Nobel Prize, and the medical world applauded. The patients had no voice left to disagree.

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He drilled into skulls, won the Nobel Prize, and the medical world applauded. The patients had no voice left to disagree.

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Today's Find: Grafenberg Medical Institute in #Dadeville t.co/8AdP2U6RT7 First operating medical school in #Alabama Graduate Louisa Shepard was first female MD in the U.S. South. Closed by the Civil War #histmed #medicalhistory