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1667 June 15: Exact date is disputed. A Parisian physician Jean-Baptiste Denis (1640?-1704, sometimes spelled “Denys”), performed first documented blood transfusion involving a human on either June 15 or 28. Lamp's blood into a 15 yo boy https://t.co/aEbDF1aumI
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Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Dr. Kilmer's "Complete Female Remedy" https://t.co/awd8aPFdR2 S. Andral Kilmer operated in Binghamton NY in the late 19th & early 20th centuries #histmed
Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Aldrich was a pseudonym used on many sleaze paperbacks from Greenleaf classics published in the 1960's & early 1970's https://t.co/yodT68L97g This title appeared in 1966 #histmed #histnursing
Todays’ Find: Linda Caldwell’s 2020 biography of John Gorrie (3 Oct 1803 – 29 June 1855), “He Made Ice & Changed the World”, a U.S. physician who developed mechanical cooling in an effort to help his malaria & yellow fever patients https://t.co/tHd0CJV6Ft #histmed
1811 June 7: James Young Simpson born near Edinburgh https://t.co/pVw5Stpi8D
Discovered anesthetic properties of chloroform etc Died 6 May 1870 #histmed
Today’s Find: Saturday Evening Post cover 31 Aug 1918 https://t.co/FSFo3BK0FV At the time the Post was one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S. #histmed
Today's Vintage Book Cover: Manners & morals in a modern hospital, eh? Friedman wrote several such potboilers, including another medical one, "The Surgeon" https://t.co/3SkgtdDSGE This one first published in 1960 #histmed
Today's Find: Abstract by AJ Wright, "Balloons & Medical Gases: The Collaboration of James Sadler & Thomas Beddoes" https://t.co/reDkgwpZJI #histmed See also https://t.co/YAqjUCBzpJ
Today's Find: A few images from the Mickey Mouse universe https://t.co/5j4eNOxQn0 #histmed #histnursing
Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: This card is from the late 19th century https://t.co/jt5XM8YMSp
She looks like she's just been "rescued from a bed of suffering", doesn't she? #histmed