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Today’s Find: “Grounds for Marriage” a 1951 romantic comedy film in which Van Johnson plays a throat specialist physician & Kathryn Grayson is his ex-wife, an opera singer with a sore throat. Hijinks ensue https://t.co/LoCOhvI1fb

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2022-02-06

1744 Feb 5: American physician, scientist, military surgeon John Jeffries born https://t.co/BzYQ67vDzP
One of the first Americans to keep detailed weather observations. Accompanied Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the Eng. Channel. Died 16 Sept 1819

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2022-02-06

Today’s Find: This 1940 entry, the fifth of the 10 in the film series, stars Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare, Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie & Lorraine Day as Nurse Lamont https://t.co/Wauq1CFvA6

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2022-02-05

in 1828, two anatomists Dr Riley & Dr Wallis were fined £6 after being caught in Brislington churchyard STEALING A CADAVER.

Both men were noted anatomists but not very good at body snatching it would appear...

📸Wellcome Collection

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2022-02-03

1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" https://t.co/psjYlMifc4

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2022-02-02

Today's Find: Ian Williams' graphic novel "The Lady Doctor" was published 31 Jan 2019 https://t.co/iky21Q7Gch

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2022-02-01

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: See how the children take & ask for more of this "palatable" castor oil! https://t.co/UGWU9Lnyac From the Helfand Collection See also https://t.co/jhqztesl2L

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2022-01-31

Today’s Find: One of my articles “Quinine with Whiskey: An Early American Drug Shortage” https://t.co/LfONjltRuB (Access requires free registration)

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2022-01-29

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/csrnotGzCt

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2022-01-29

1970 Jan 25: Robert Altman's film M*A*S*H premiered in the US https://t.co/SJGW60puvM
Based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel "MASH" about medical personnel at a mobile surgical hospital during the Korean War https://t.co/uKEORM6nDc
TV series & many other novels followed

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2022-01-26

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Trix Breath Perfume by Johns & Co., Cleveland, Ohio https://t.co/qN4rT7eIdR From the Helfand Collection via

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2022-01-24

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Trapped 3 men, eh? Tilbury wrote a number of romances between 1961 & 1984 https://t.co/TolVv0vi9k This title published 1962

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2022-01-23

Horace Wells was born in 1815 🎉 Although Wells never recovered from his 'failed' demonstration of nitrous oxide anaesthesia in 1845, he's remembered today for his pioneering use of it 🏅

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2022-01-21

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Published in 1968

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2022-01-20

Read Claire Gantet's new Open Access article, "The dissemination of mesmerism in Germany (1784–1815): Some patterns of the circulation of knowledge":

https://t.co/ToeMbviJEt

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2022-01-19

Esta lámina, recogida en "#Anatomia del corpo humano" de Valverde de Amusco (#Venecia, 1586), representa "un huomo scorticato dalla parte d'avante"
https://t.co/QxuvbKXesU

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2022-01-13

Through the autobiography of George King (1787-1857), explores subjects including the impact of foundling labor on the British empire, the mental & physical toll of war, and slavery & race: https://t.co/am8c5miqgz

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2022-01-09

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Berczeller's book was reviewed in the New York Times 14 June 1964 https://t.co/yurjyw5iKq
Also published 10 short stories in the "New Yorker" NY Times obituary 8 Jan 1994 https://t.co/MSSFwrrXPE

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2022-01-09

Jan 6: According to many sources, today is Sherlock Holmes' birthday; some anesthesia connections at https://t.co/jlbkHgLavB

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2022-01-07