Today's Find: Atlanta newspaper article April 5, 1910. Self-medicating a toothache with "Chloroform Made Him Act Like a Johnny" tinyurl.com/yavatdph #histmed #histmed #medicalhistory #histdentistry

2002 July 12: Police procedural/mystery TV series "Monk" premiered in the U.S. & ran for 8 seasons tinyurl.com/y7xc955p The 2006 season featured an episode on March 10 in which "Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist" #histdentistry #dentalhistory

Today's Find: Newspaper item published 31 Jan 1904 "Dr. Hickenhyphen's Automatic Tooth Puller" tinyurl.com/y6so87kj Info on George Randolph Chester, an American writer/screenwriter/film director & editor at tinyurl.com/y7dfo3su #histdentistry #dentalhistory

Today’s Find: Zane Grey (Jan 31, 1872 – Oct 23, 1939) minor league baseball player, UPenn grad, dentist in NYC, successful author of many westerns tinyurl.com/y7abyglt His novels & stories have been adapted to more than 100 films & TV productions #histdentistry #dentalhistory

Today’s Find: Via @BarnaclePress That time on 5 Jan 1908 when Buster Brown had a dental procedure without cocaine. Brown was a newspaper comic strip character first seen in 1902 tinyurl.com/y3m83ua4 #histmed #histdentistry #medicalhistory #dentalhistory

Today’s Find: Galen “Doc” Adams, MD, is pulling a tooth as Marshall Matt Dillon looks on in “The Queue” one of the “Gunsmoke” TV show’s half-hour episodes first broadcast 3 Dec 1955 tinyurl.com/h8xmg77 No dentist in Dodge in the 1870’s #histmed #histdentistry #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Doc Holliday gives nitrous oxide to a young girl with impacted wisdom teeth in the “Little Pistol” episode of “The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp” first broadcast Nov 5, 1957 www.imdb.com/title/tt0631... Gas apparatus is shown #histdentistry #histmed

1889 Apr 16: Charlie Chaplin was born. Played a dental assistant in the 1914 silent film “Laughing Gas” tinyurl.com/p6w88wd Hilarity ensues #histmed #histdentistry

Today's Find: Newspaper ad by dentists in Washington, D.C. April 9, 1922, noting "Teeth extracted painlessly by the 'Block Anesthesia Method'"
tinyurl.com/yccz35ba #histdentistry

2002 July 12: Police procedural/mystery TV series "Monk" premiered in the U.S. & ran for 8 seasons tinyurl.com/y7xc955p The 2006 season featured an episode on March 10 in which "Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist" #histdentistry

Today’s Find: Zane Grey (Jan 31, 1872 – Oct 23, 1939) minor league baseball player, UPenn grad, dentist in NYC, successful author of many westerns tinyurl.com/y7abyglt His novels & stories have been adapted for more than 100 films & TV productions #histdentistry

Today’s Find: Via @BarnaclePress That time on 5 Jan 1908 when Buster Brown had a dental procedure without cocaine. Brown was a newspaper comic strip character first seen in 1902 tinyurl.com/y3m83ua4 #histmed #histdentistry

1889 Apr 16: Charlie Chaplin was born. Played a dental assistant in the 1914 silent film “Laughing Gas” tinyurl.com/p6w88wd
Hilarity ensues #histmed #histdentistry Died 25 Dec 1977 tinyurl.com/yckk3kkr

1924 Dec 4: Eric von Stroheim's epic film "Greed" was released tinyurl.com/yyefwwep Based on a Frank Norris novel, "McTeague". Follows the life & love of the dentist McTeague in San Francisco tinyurl.com/yybpmwjn #histdentistry #histmed

Today’s Find: Galen “Doc” Adams, MD, is pulling a tooth as Marshall Matt Dillon looks on in “The Queue” one of the “Gunsmoke” TV show’s half-hour episodes first broadcast 3 Dec 1955 tinyurl.com/h8xmg77 No dentist in Dodge #histmed #histdentistry

Today’s Find: “Pulling Teeth By Electricity” that creates local anesthesia 14 Nov 1896 newspaper article Trinity [Calif.] Journal tinyurl.com/3tksz9ka #histmed #histdentistry Don't try this at home....

Today’s Find: Via @BarnaclePress That time in 1908 when Buster Brown had a dental procedure without cocaine. Brown was a newspaper comic strip character first seen in 1902 tinyurl.com/y3m83ua4 #histmed #histdentistry #busterbrosn #comicstrip