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
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
Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease—young patients with psychiatric symptoms, then rapid neurological collapse. Linked to BSE-contaminated beef, it forced the UK to admit prions had crossed into humans in 1996. Not infection as usual—misfolded proteins, no cure. #MedicalHistory
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The Doctor Who Discovered Handwashing, And Was Institutionalized For It. The Life and Works of Ignaz Semmelweis! #Semmelweis #Handwashing #MedicalHistory #ScienceHistory #Sanitation
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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
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
Medicine in Customs and Traditions 6:
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𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞, 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝟏𝟓𝟒𝟏
Venice State Archive, Provveditori alla Sanità, Reg. 2, cc. 1r, 2r.
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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
Prontosil stains urine a warning red while streptococci die unseen in tissue. Domagk’s sulfonamide work earns the 1939 Nobel Prize—though Nazi authorities first force him to refuse it. Hospitals quietly switch septic wards to the new dye-drug #MedicalHistory
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
Today’s Find: Hagan Drug Store postcard, Sylacauga, Alabama date unknown. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Collections tinyurl.com/yckesfyn #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama
Today's Vintage Book Cover: This title first published 1962. Kate Starr one of 2 pseudonyms Australian author Enid Dingwell used for 80 romances 1931-86 tinyurl.com/5n74vacx Died 2 Aug 1997 #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
1889 Apr 16: Charlie Chaplin was born. Played a dental assistant in the 1914 silent film “Laughing Gas” tinyurl.com/p6w88wd Hilarity ensues. Died 25 Dec 1977 tinyurl.com/yckk3kkr #dentalhistory #medicalhistory
1943 Apr 16: Working in the Sandoz Labs in Basel, Albert Hofmann accidentally absorbed LSD via his fingertips. Stuff happened tinyurl.com/cmfym7u On April 19 he took his first deliberate dose. He had synthesized the drug 16 Nov 1938. Hofmann died 29 Apr 2008 #medicalhistory
1828 Apr 14: Noah Webster published his "American Dictionary of the English Language" tinyurl.com/vhzrmbw A number of medical terms were included tinyurl.com/twyzymn #histmed #medicalhistory
Today’s Find: : French physiologist Pierre Flourens [13 Apr 1794-6 Dec 1867] was an important figure in brain science & anesthesia tinyurl.com/25hak9vx In 1846 this translation of his book on phrenology appeared #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
1760 Apr 13: Thoma Beddoes born. Published the first substantial work on nitrous oxide inhalation by humans in 1799. Hired Humphry Davy as research assistant at his Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, England.He died 24 Dec 1808 tinyurl.com/chqd2r2 #anesthesiahistory #medicalhistory #histmed
Poisons and Antidotes 5:
𝐇𝐲𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐲𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫 - 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲, 𝟏𝟒𝟏𝟓
from Nicolò Roccabonella's "Herbarium", Cod. Lat. VI.59 (=2428), ff. 7v-8v, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice.
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Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Anne Royall Describes Alabama Doctors in 1821” tinyurl.com/2kvt3ve4 “Huntsville #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama #alabamayesterdays
1856 Apr 12: Dr. Marshall Hall described artificial respiration in "The Lancet" John Snow wrote about it: tinyurl.com/3sacszp5 #histmed #medicalhistory
Today's Patent Medicine Trade Card: George H. Tichenor [12 Apr 1837- 14 Jan 1923] surgeon who developed his antiseptic formula after the Civil War tinyurl.com/25fd86tn Company is still active today; products include mouthwash & toothpaste tinyurl.com/ajrb7vb3 #histmed #medicalhistory
German KLA TV giving a critical perspective on the WHO, the International Health Regulations, declared pandemics (too closely linked to pharmaceutical profiteers), birdflu, swineflu and Covid 19. There are international subtitles from the link.
#medicalhistory
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Gene therapy is first used on a human patient in 1990, targeting a rare immune disorder—doctors insert corrected genes into cells, a controlled gamble with long-term risks still unclear. #MedicalHistory
