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Today's Find: 27 Feb 1978 newspaper article "'Dr X' on Trial in Curare Deaths" https://t.co/qUnyiJbfSN #histmed
Today's Photo: #Birmingham Medical College students & their snowman https://t.co/5wAVSF8nNu Feb 25, 1914 #Alabama #bham #histmed
1804 Feb 6: English minister/scientist Joseph Priestley died in Pennsylvania. He isolated nitrous oxide among many other achievements https://t.co/6o4x6X9IkU
1848 Jan 28: Hannah Greener, a healthy 15-yo, died in Newcastle. She is often identified as the first fatality of chloroform anesthesia. She was having a toenail removed. https://t.co/csrnotYau1 #histmed
Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: "For Dyspepsia & Debility" Late 19th century https://t.co/K8dhvrvCPA #histmed
1298 Dec 24: Italian bishop & physician Theodoric of Lucca died. Developed "soporific sponges" for surgical pain relief https://t.co/ltiT8pVVn9 #histmed
Today's Find: Blog post #Birmingham Photo of the Day (9): McAdory Home & Infirmary in 1910
https://t.co/2JcDndOAYl #Alabama #bham #bhm #histmed
Today's Find: Michael Servetus was a Spanish physician-author-theologian who was first European to correctly describe pulmonary circulation https://t.co/N4rIznxXRL He was burned at the stake for heresy 27 October 1553
Today's Art: Adam Elsheimer's ca. 1598 painting that depicts Saint Elizabeth of Hungary feeding hospital patients https://t.co/mWsnrIxal6 #histmed
1922 Sept 7: Surgeon Wm Halsted died One of 1st Am to research cocaine for local anesthesia https://t.co/sde8DDsVid #histmed