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Today’s Find: Via That time on 5 Jan 1908 when Buster Brown had a dental procedure without cocaine. Brown was a newspaper comic strip character first seen in 1902 https://t.co/0QbtPz6AXm

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2022-01-06

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the Helfand Collection https://t.co/dIB57BmPZj For more on bitters see https://t.co/Svq4Va8eoa

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2022-01-03

Rudolph Nissen (1896–1981) performed the first gastric fundoplication in 1955 and published the results of two cases in a 1956. He originally called the surgery "gastroplication". The procedure has borne his name since it gained popularity in the 1970s.

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2021-12-25

Today's Book: T'was the night before Christmas, and all thru the floor, Lasix was given, filling foleys galore. Stockings were worn to prevent emboli, they came in two sizes, knee and thigh high... https://t.co/dYb2fEQhwv

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2021-12-25

Remarkable! 🧠An engraving of the anatomy of the Brain by Charles Bell (1774-1842)

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2021-12-21

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Slaughter [1908-2001] was a physician who wrote many medical & other best selling novels https://t.co/6lLBijRvcz In this one, first published in 1958, our hero seeks an alternative to lobotomy

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2021-12-19

Today’s Find: Louis Crucius, MD, 1862-1898] created the wonderful Antikamnia calendar art issued 1897-1901 https://t.co/FSbiKD63QZ The company bought 30 of his watercolors just before his death at 35 after kidney surgery

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2021-12-19

Today’s Find: “Saturday Evening Post” cover 22 Oct 1949 “Leaving the Hospital” by Stevan Dohanos https://t.co/scidXpwM2w In addition to those for other magazines, Dohanos created 125 Post covers in the 1940's & 1950's

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2021-12-17

Today’s Find: Nurse cut-out doll with uniforms & off-duty clothes ca. 1944 https://t.co/tC8qGPS8bG

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2021-12-17

Today’s Comic: “Young Romance” Jul-Aug 1973 issue https://t.co/tpDEhh36yW Title published Aug 1963 until Dec 1975

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2021-12-15

Today's Find: Christmas scenes at Guy's Hospital, London, in 1887 https://t.co/U6MmAh1IWO

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2021-12-11

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the Helfand Collection https://t.co/Lgaq8iJT2T ca. 1890's, Chicago

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2021-12-06

Today’s Find: “Doctors & Friends” by novelist/physician Kimmery Martin explores the lives of 3 female doctors who have remained friends since medical school & now face a pandemic https://t.co/EipjVLJKua

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2021-12-06

1887 Dec 1: Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in "A Study in Scarlet" See JR Maltby's article on Holmes & anesthesia https://t.co/H6h4R4CHQ1

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2021-12-02

in 1986, at the age of 98, the great Irish anesthetist Ivan Magill died. He developed many tools for such as the laryngoscope, forceps, and endotracheal tube that bear his name.

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2021-11-26

Today’s Find: One of my articles “Strange Stories in the Papers: The History of Anesthesia’s Future” https://t.co/uoSW9NOci1 (Access requires free registration)

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2021-11-23

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 He died 21 Nov 1835

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2021-11-22

Sunday Patent Medicine Calendar: The Antikamnia Chemical Co did some wonderfully macabre calendars for several years ca. 1897-1901 https://t.co/pbTczG8i6F & https://t.co/VAlLf23ho6 Art by Louis Crucius

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2021-11-22