Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “That Time John Dodge Died in Mobile” tinyurl.com/ejsdjukw #alabama #alabamayesterdays #mobilealabama

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Sweet Spring I" on a mug

Today’s Comic Book: “Emergency Ward” 10 Sept 2, 1958 “Calling Nurse Young!" tinyurl.com/srn7v6up Based on the British TV series 1957-67 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalcomics #medicaltv

Today’s Find: Emily McLaughlin as Nurse Jesse Brewer, a role she played on the daytime serial “General Hospital” from 1963 until 1991 tinyurl.com/yx38ywvv #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: My article “See You in the Funny Papers: Anesthesia in Cartoons & Comics” tinyurl.com/y8gpfdwj [PDF] #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #medicalcomics #medicalcartoons

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama and the Six Triple Eight” tinyurl.com/3jkc26hu #alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Babs Deal, Scottsboro & The Torch” tinyurl.com/4u4dyhza #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: “King of the Underworld” a 1939 film in which a doctor [Kay Francis] is forced to treat a wounded gangster [Humphrey Bogart]. Remake of 1935’s “Dr. Socrates” tinyurl.com/2ddedupc Francis vs Bogart makes for a pretty interesting film #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm

Today's Vintage Book Cover: This author [16 Jun 1924-27 Jan 1982] wrote more than 100 romances many medical under her real name Arlene Hale & several pseudonyms tinyurl.com/2p9h4ak2 This title published 1975 tinyurl.com/2p8mb5u5 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

Today's Find: I recently purchased this Harvard Medical School postcard tinyurl.com/y4pbbd8h The message on the back is dated Apr 20, 1909 #histmed #medicalhistory

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Fantasy"

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post: “Alabama Book: Thoughts of a Man Called Boozer” tinyurl.com/5f3bdxtf #alabama #alabamayesterdays
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Today’s Find: Helen Ashton’s 1930 novel “Doctor Serocold” which explores one day in the practice of a GP in an English country town. Ashton [18 Oct 1891-27 June 1958] was a physician & author tinyurl.com/34nr9sve #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

1813 Apr 19: American physician Benjamin Rush died tinyurl.com/ch3brqh Signed Declaration of Independence, taught chemistry, medical theory & clinical practice at Univ Pennsylvania & more. Born 24 Dec 1746. Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale #medicalhistory #histmed

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Farm Couple II"

Erasmus Darwin - Wikipedia

1802 Apr 18: Erasmus Darwin died. Lunar Soc member. In addition to many other achievements & activities, he supported research by Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy at the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, Eng. on the medical use of gases 1798-1801 tinyurl.com/br9bgt2 #histmed #medicalhistory

1774 Apr 18: What eventually became the Royal Humane Society was founded by 32 men in a London coffee shop tinyurl.com/y2waltul By the end of the 19th century the Society had some 280 depots around the UK containing life-saving equipment #histmed #medicalhistory

1953 Apr 18: Medical Association of #Alabama declares at its annual meeting that all 67 county affiliate societies can admit "qualified Negro physicians to membership" tinyurl.com/ydckspj2 #histmed #medicalhistory #alabamahistory

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Reflection"

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Flower Basket"

Today’s Find: 2012 graphic novel by Lila Quintero Weaver, “Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White” about her family’s move in 1961 from Buenos Aires to Marion, Alabama tinyurl.com/59bupxb8 #alabama

1799 Apr 17: Humphry Davy announced in a brief note in “Nicholson's Journal” that nitrous oxide can be inhaled by humans tinyurl.com/5n73vkzp We are still laughing about it #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: Ad for the patent medicine Cin-Ko-Na & Iron from the #Birmingham #Alabama Age-Herald 17 Apr 1904 tinyurl.com/ybebfh7d

1790 Apr 17: Ben Franklin died. He was a participant in the first investigation of Franz Mesmer's "animal magnetism" claims. Did some other stuff, too
tinyurl.com/3xeetsy7 Born 17 Jan 1706 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: First broadcast on CBS-TV 17 Apr 1979, “Transplant” tells the story of executive John Hurley who had one of the world’s earliest heart transplants at Stanford Medical Center. Based on the book by Phillip Dossick tinyurl.com/y8dpr8rk #histmed #medicalhistory

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Aunt Stella"

Today’s Find: Ad for Collier Drug Co. in the Birmingham Age-Herald 7 April 1907. Product listings are “Daily Helps” [patent medicines] & “Wines, Whiskies, Brandies” tinyurl.com/yc2h3xrr #histmed #medicalhistory #birminghamalabama #alabama

Today’s Find: “Dr. Storm is turning wayward hippies into his mindless zombie slaves” with that old standby, lobotomy in this 1973 British classic tinyurl.com/mvvdfajk #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm

Today's Patent Medicine Trade Card: Late 19th century from the very successful Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass tinyurl.com/mvddhwz6 This image via the Helfand Collection @NYAMHistory tinyurl.com/2wftkn3k #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: From the “Saturday Evening Post” “I love you so, and yet this war — Would you be willing to marry me and be a war widow?” From short fiction “Death in the Doll’s House” by Hannah Lees & Lawrence P. Bachman Feb 27, 1943 tinyurl.com/ueysd7z4 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory