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Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Compliments of the very successful patent medicine businessman James Cook Ayer of Lowell, Mass. https://t.co/Afn66c0ooF #histmed
1760 Oct 23: Japanese physician Hanaoka Seishu was born https://t.co/UOAE9oTldd He used an oral general anesthetic tsusensan in 150+ breast cancer cases #histmed He died in 1835 #OTD
1708 Oct 16: Swiss physician Albrecht von Haller born; died 1777. Often called the father of experimental physiology https://t.co/plP6zjZFLr #histmed #OTD
Today's Find: Blog post #Birmingham Photo of the Day (9): McAdory Home & Infirmary in 1910
https://t.co/2JcDne6bPT #Alabama #bham #histmed
1805 Oct 13: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu performed his first breast cancer operation with "tsusensan" as an oral general anesthetic. He did dozens more https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy #histmed #OTD
1996 Oct 12: Obstetric anesthesia & public health pioneer Robert A. Hingson died https://t.co/9sSHXz0Ed8 #histmed #OTD
1835 Oct 2: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu died. Used anesthetic "tsusensan" in 150+ breast cancer surgeries https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy #histmed #OTD
1846 Sept 30: William T.G. Morton anesthetized Eben Frost & removed a tooth days ahead of Ether Day at MGH on Oct 16 https://t.co/yIAfTsNkxY #histmed #OTD
1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died in 1878. Two of his medical works are "Headache" & "The Colic" https://t.co/psjYlMifc4 #histmed #OTD
Today's Vintage Book Cover: Read more about the many Cherry Ames novels etc at https://t.co/JUnAXpPIbp #histmed #histnursing