Before giving up on a patient they couldn’t cure, doctors in the Middle East used to have an unusual technique. Details are free and complete at beyondosaurus.com/last-ditch-m... ( #ancientMedicine, #medicalHistory, #MiddleEast, #medical, #barbaric)
Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Alabama Medical Ads in 1911" tinyurl.com/hr7ffee #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama #alabamayesterdays
Smallpox inoculation gains traction in 1769 as Catherine the Great undergoes the risky procedure—taking live virus matter to induce immunity, a calculated gamble that helps push variolation into wider use among Europe’s elite. #MedicalHistory
Today’s Find: I’ve read this 2013 book, “Five Days at Memorial” by Sheri Fink, a physician. Explores events at Memorial Medical Center in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A grueling, disturbing read but well worth it tinyurl.com/bdzk676n #histmed #medicalhistory
Todays Vintage Book Cover: First published 1968 tinyurl.com/2p8r5zx7 One of the many female pseudonyms of very prolific writer William E.D. Ross [16 Nov 1912-1 Nov 1995] tinyurl.com/2b66yxd6
#histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
1821 Apr 9: Charles Baudelaire born in Paris. Wrote on ether & chloroform in his "Poem of Hashish" [1895] Ch.5, "Moral" bit.ly/RGx9xi #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #nationalpoetrymonth
Ancient bones are rewriting medical history. New analysis of prehistoric European skeletons reveals clear signs of a syphilis-like disease much earlier than thought, possibly dating back thousands of years.
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Medical Astrology Series 18:
𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧 - 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲
from Rolando da Parma, "Chirurgia", MS 3599, f. 116r, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris.
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #AstologicalMan #Middleages #zodiac
Robotic surgery isn't as new as you think: the first successful procedure was performed by Dr. Louis Kavoussi back in 1997. 🤖 #RandomFact #MedicalHistory #SurgicalTech #Innovation #Robotics
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#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Pharmacology #Middleages #italy
Full-page vintage LIFE magazine advertisement for Fatima cigarettes, dated January 22, 1920. The upper portion features a framed painted portrait of a middle-aged bearded man in a brown suit, seated and holding eyeglasses, presented as a physician. Beneath the portrait is a block of text describing doctors as careful, discerning smokers and suggesting that Fatima is “a sensible cigarette.” Large decorative text at the bottom reads “FATIMA” with the tagline “A Sensible Cigarette.” A CSTS attribution mark appears at lower right.
Before Camel made doctor endorsements famous, cigarette advertisers were borrowing medical authority.
This 1920 Fatima ad uses physician imagery and careful-smoking language to make the brand seem credible and “sensible.” #CSTS #TobaccoHistory #MedicalHistory #AdvertisingHistory #SmokingAndHealth
Today’s Comic Strip: Rex Morgan, MD, a popular U.S. strip began running 10 May 1948 & continues today tinyurl.com/4npxk9kf This episode ran in newspapers on 8 Dec 1982 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalcomicstrip
Today’s Find: “Harrow” is an Australian medical drama series 9 March 2018-11 April 2021. Title character is Daniel Harrow, a forensic pathologist tinyurl.com/esa8sc3m Watched it recently & enjoyed it #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
1709 Sept 18: English poet, playwright, lexicographer, etc Samuel Johnson was born. His great dictionary was published in April 1755 & did not include "anaesthesia" although earlier dictionaries did tinyurl.com/qd48z4j & tinyurl.com/ng9ypeh #histmed #medicalhistory
Alessandra Foscati, Michèle Goyens (eds), 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝
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#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #NamingPathology #Premodernmedicine
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Pelham Doctors in 1900” tinyurl.com/3cyt9rys #Alabama #pelhamalabaa #histmed #medicalhistory #alabamayesterdays
Today’s Find: James White [7 Apr 1928-23 Aug 1999] was the author of the Sector General medical science fiction novels & stories tinyurl.com/mhr8n5u This first one published in 1962 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
1847 Apr 7: Frances Longfellow, wife of the poet, received ether for the first obstetric anesthetic in the U.S. The anesthesia was administered by Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep tinyurl.com/y23f2s96 See also tinyurl.com/mrx9jn38 #medicalhistory #histmed #anesthesiahistory
Today's Vintage Book Cover: English author Kathleen Lindsay [1903-73] wrote 904 novels under 11 pseudonyms tinyurl.com/yck7t556 Manvers is one of them. This title published in 1961 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
1926 April: Last Anesthesia & Analgesia quarterly supplement to the "American Journal of Surgery" published; first in October 1914 tinyurl.com/pwnhyhm Edited by Francis Hoeffer McMechan, one of the founders of modern anesthesiology #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
Weird Physicians Series 25:
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐡𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧ç𝐨𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐞 𝐖𝐮𝐥𝐟 - 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝟏𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲
Oil painting (102.5cm H x 80cm W) by Anonymous, Inventory number: 0000.GRO0516.I, Saint John's Hospital, Bruges.
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Ophthalmology #Eighteenthcentury
Hospitals expand under Louis IX in 1247, with Paris’s Hôtel-Dieu taking in growing numbers of the sick—crowded wards, shared beds, and rudimentary care showing how medieval cities tried to manage disease up close. #MedicalHistory
Cropped quotation from the 1958 emphysema article reading, in part, “While smoking has been implicated in the production of emphysema,” but stating that the authors doubted it was ever the sole or even a major factor in the loss of lung elasticity.
Cover of the November-December 1958 issue of Clinical Symposia, with the title in large black letters above an illustration of a thin seated man whose chest is overlaid with a diagram of the lungs and airways.
Scanned page from the 1958 emphysema article containing a paragraph that reads, in part, “While smoking has been implicated in the production of emphysema,” but states that the authors doubted it was ever the sole or even a major factor in the loss of lung elasticity.
Medical illustration of a thin seated male patient with emphysema leaning forward in a chair, labeled as a position often assumed by the patient in the office.
A 1958 Clinical Symposia issue on pulmonary emphysema acknowledged smoking had been “implicated,” then doubted it was ever the sole or even a major factor in loss of lung elasticity.
#CSTS #TobaccoHistory #MedicalHistory #Emphysema #SmokingAndHealth
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
827 Apr 5: English surgeon & pioneer of antiseptic surgery with carbolic acid Joseph Lister was born tinyurl.com/nzbvx5h Died 10 Feb 1912 #histmed #medicalhistory
1830 April 5: English physician Henry Hill Hickman died bit.ly/1s9ckfl He tried carbon dioxide as anesthesia in animals #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
Today’s Find: Around 1900 Ford came from Chicago to what is now #Alabama A&M near #Huntsville as school physician. In her brief time there she helped start a hospital. Moved to Denver & had a long career in that city tinyurl.com/ybpsfzq6 #histmed #medicalhistory
𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲
In partnership with Collins Rare Books, KCMS is offering a limited selection of volumes dating from the 1600s through the early 1900s. info@kcmsociety.org
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#RareBooks #MedicalHistory #AntiquarianBooks #CollectorsEdition #LiteraryHeritage
Today’s Find: “Mercy Street” a PBS medical drama from 2016-17 that focused on two nurses at a hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, during the U.S. Civil War tinyurl.com/mr2nxwjm #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
Today's Find: Hektoen International series "Famous Hospitals: Hillman Hospital" tinyurl.com/2p8kz49f #BirminghamAlabama #histmed #medicalhistory
