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1846 Sept 7: Gilbert Abbott met with surgeon John Collins Warren in Boston about his neck tumor; the Oct 16 surgery is now known as Ether Day https://t.co/TSF8TN22h4 #histmed #OTD
Today's Vintage Book Cover: From Sept 1964 https://t.co/k12M2yYDPw One of several nurse romance novels by Trench #histmed #histnursing
Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Wood & Selick Cough Drops https://t.co/qB7HMN5M6n Via the Helfand Collection @NYAMHistory #histmed Located in NY https://t.co/bKX5WDRRuj
1849 Sept 3: American author Sarah Orne Jewett born https://t.co/8NG63zrhc5 Her 1884 novel “A Country Doctor” follows the trials of a female physician. She died 24 June 1909 #OTD
Today's Painting: Lillian Wald who led U.S. Nurses' Emergency Council during 1918 flu epidemic https://t.co/abndI8qGv6 This 1919 portrait is by William Valentine Schevill She was born 10 Mar 1867 & died 1 Sept 1940 #histmed #histnursing
Today’s Find: Saturday Evening Post cover 31 Aug 1918 https://t.co/FSFo3C1Bxt At the time the Post was one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S. #histmed #histnursing
Today’s Find: Something seems very wrong at this hospital..or clinic…or whatever. This pulp magazine was published from 1934 to 1942; this issue Aug 1939 https://t.co/kPwFTk2Thd
Bellem was a prolific pulp author for 30 years & then wrote for TV https://t.co/fow7b7VA4M
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1989 Aug 28: Sir Robert Macintosh died. Published a classic "Lancet" article about his #laryngoscope in Feb 1943 https://t.co/CH46BoC99h #histmed #OTD He was born 17 Oct 1897. First professor of anesthesia outside the U.S.
Today’s Find: Sandra Miller’s novel “Out of Patients” portrays a female physician contemplating retirement after more than 3 decades of practice in a Phoenix suburb https://t.co/OhDxwulMcQ Author is a retired physician #histmed
Today’s Comic Book: Only two issues published, Aug & Nov 1964. This is the first one. Adapted from a 1962 novel of the same name by Frank Haskell https://t.co/q3KTpq39lW #histmed