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1925 Feb 20: Film director Robert Altman was born https://t.co/AoJLg7O59W One of his best known works is "M*A*S*H" [1970] a black comedy set in the Korean War & following the staff at a mobile army surgical hospital https://t.co/74R1H5923k Died 20 Nov 2006

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2021-11-21

Today’s Find: In the 2019 film “Primal” with Nicholas Cage, curare is a prominent element. Also, Famke Janssen plays a neurologist! https://t.co/MadViKIVWs

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2021-11-19

The scottish Charles Bell was born in 1774. He described neurological alterations such as opisthotonos and the that bears his name. He was also a military and documented his experiences of him in the Battle of Waterloo.

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2021-11-13

Today’s Comic Book: Only two issues published, Aug & Nov 1964. Adapted from a novel by Frank Haskell https://t.co/q3KTpqkKdu

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2021-11-09

1847 Nov 8: James Young Simpson introduced chloroform into obstetric practice https://t.co/jxNuSP8hr1 Despite the legend the baby was NOT named Anaesthesia

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2021-11-09

Today's Find: "Different Effects of Ether & Chloroform" 7 Nov 1857 California newspaper article https://t.co/RRcDXcejVD

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2021-11-08

Jacques Guillemeau (1550–1613) was a french He was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and a favored student of Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), who was also his father-in-law. He was a leading authority on and

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2021-11-06

1847 Nov 4: After testing other substances in their search for an ether substitute, James Young Simpson & colleagues tried chloroform https://t.co/cmhQh0HLvH

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2021-11-05

Today’s Find: The song “The Rose of No Man’s Land” originally written in 1918 in French by Louis Delamarre as tribute to Red Cross nurses https://t.co/nAxL7Un4LT English lyrics by Jack Caddigan & music by James A. Brennan for this version

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2021-11-04

Today's Find: Nurses' uniform patterns from Butterick 1980's. Ebenezer Butterick founded the company in the 1860's; in 2001 it was acquired by McCall Pattern Company https://t.co/OmcSJGgMqZ

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2021-11-01

Charles Albert Calmette died of 1933 at the age of 70. In 1894 he develop the first antivenoms for snake bites using immune sera from vaccinated horses (Calmette's serum).
With Guerin he tried to develop the vaccine for tuberculosis.

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2021-10-29

Today's Find: Blog post "Archelus H. Mitchell & His 1916 Anesthesia Machine" https://t.co/r7ROg0HY2k

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2021-10-29

1994 Oct 24: U.S. stamp honoring Dr. Virginia Apgar was released
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2021-10-25

1760 Oct 23: Japanese physician Hanaoka Seishu was born https://t.co/UOAE9oTldd He used an oral general anesthetic tsusensan in 150+ breast cancer surgeries He died 21 Nov 1835

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2021-10-24

Today's Comic: "Nellie the Nurse" a Marvel title that ran 1945-Oct 1952 https://t.co/L2LzEfwFvg This one is 19 June 1945

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2021-10-23

1848 Oct 19: Samuel Guthrie died. Identified chloroform & wrote his findings in summer 1831. Independently Soubeiran in Oct & Liebig in Nov that year also identified the same compound https://t.co/nZnKqBSuAY

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2021-10-19

Today's Find: David H. Keller was an American psychiatrist & prolific author of tales for pulp magazines, including this "Weird Tales" cover story from Oct 1937 https://t.co/dzIxtUuqUz

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2021-10-19

1989 Aug 28: Sir Robert Macintosh died. Published a classic "Lancet" article about his in Feb 1943 https://t.co/CH46BoC99h He was born 17 Oct 1897. First professor of anesthesia outside the U.S.

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2021-10-18

1846 Oct 16: Ether Day in Boston William Morton, John Collins Warren, Gilbert Abbot & all that https://t.co/HiyNUAm7L5

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2021-10-17