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Today's Find: Cover of "Vogue" from 1 May 1918. The magazine began publication as a weekly in 1892 https://t.co/XJSnHQnbxL

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2022-05-02

The Collection. The Complete Scarlet Ribbon Series, on Amazon. Medicine, midwifery, romance.#thescarletribbon

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2022-04-30

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the H.D. Cushman Co, Three Rivers, Michigan ca. 1880 https://t.co/cECTOA8BMy From the Helfand Collection

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2022-04-25

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Published 1965. Marlowe was one of many pseudonyms used by Australian author Richard Wilkes-Hunter [1906-1991] https://t.co/lhSrr98jv1 Wrote numerous medical novels, also westerns, spy tales, etc

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2022-04-24

Today's Find: I recently purchased this Harvard Medical School postcard https://t.co/AKdAyTV7lO The message on the back is dated Apr 20, 1909

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2022-04-20

1790 Apr 17: Ben Franklin died. He was a participant in the first investigation of Franz Mesmer's "animal magnetism" claims. Did some other stuff, too
https://t.co/KhIfxmRJTW Born 17 Jan 1706

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2022-04-18

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Late 19th century from the very successful Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass https://t.co/8f7TBFkOyg This image via the Helfand Collection https://t.co/URYp64yQwe

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2022-04-18

Today’s Comic: “Teen-Age Romances” from April 1949 https://t.co/g0vG9MYFUx
Teenagers matured quickly in 1949. This title published through 1955; only medical cover I found

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2022-04-12

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Dr. A.C. Hoxie's Certain Croup Cure from the Helfand Collection https://t.co/Ic8UX5eaSD "Always keep it in the house"

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2022-04-11

Sunday Trade Card: George G. Dort & Co, Druggists & Pharmacists of Keene, New Hampshire https://t.co/XQekarg9ml Trade cards often used cute animals

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2022-04-04

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Torrid...scorching...warped...
devastating...wow! This one seems to have been the author's only medical novel https://t.co/Fy9BGCHTyz Published 1973

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2022-03-31

Today’s Comic: “Myra North, Special Nurse” ran as a daily comic strip from Feb 10, 1936 until March 25, 1939 https://t.co/wZvX0rLiKx
& https://t.co/Qw4dYiUIPH

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2022-03-26

The circle of Willis was first described by anatomy pioneer Thomas Willis in his Cerebri anatome of 1664

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2022-03-23

Welcome to First, take a deep breath! Done? Good! Today we want to show you the anatomy of a Victorian amputation found in George Bell's Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery (1821). We are so glad that our copy is not coloured! 😱

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2022-03-22

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From J.C. Ayer & Co, Lowell, Mass https://t.co/BXJgpaP2CA See also https://t.co/KIDx6L8bgS & https://t.co/8f7TBFkOyg for info on Ayer & his very successful company

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2022-03-21

Today's Nursing Shoe Ad: A quick search turned up nothing on the store; anyone want to guess a date for these shoes?

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2022-03-21