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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/psjYlMzQ3C

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2020-09-27

1926 Sept 26: Singer & actress Julie London was born. Among other film/TV roles she starred in "Emergency!" a popular US TV show in the 1970's https://t.co/NXQxJH6B5k Died 18 Oct 2000 https://t.co/dM7x7knF9B Did I mention she sang, too?

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2020-09-26

Today's Find: Anesthesia & medical history items from my Twitter feed Sept 1-15 via https://t.co/cfIEBOjbJl

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2020-09-16

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: A "sure cure" for 25 cents https://t.co/ksmnPpOsx1 The back of the card has a number of testimonials; ca. 1870-1890

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2020-09-13

[1/3] Today we'll be talking about grim eye stuff - specifically eye surgery - a topic that so many people are squeamish about! And who can blame them, really, when you look at the sorts of tools Victorian eye surgeons were working with.

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2020-09-09

1846 Sept 7: Gilbert Abbott met with surgeon John Collins Warren in Boston about his neck tumor; the Oct 16 surgery now known as Ether Day https://t.co/HI1kmdKSmC

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2020-09-07

Today's Patent Medicine Trade Card: Headache Cured! By Dr. Mettaur's headache pills "a certain relief" https://t.co/zofbktvm2I See also https://t.co/QQWTztlm9k ca. 1870-1890

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2020-09-06

1849 Sept 3: American author Sarah Orne Jewett was born https://t.co/8NG63z9FNv Her 1884 novel “A Country Doctor” follows the trials of a female physician. She died 24 June 1909

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2020-09-03

Andreas Vesalius ("De Humani corporis Fabrica", 1543) VS Juan Valverde (“Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano”, 1556)

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2020-09-02

Today's Painting: Lillian Wald who led U.S. Nurses' Emergency Council during 1918 flu epidemic https://t.co/abndI8956w This 1919 portrait is by William Valentine Schevill She was born 10 Mar 1867 & died 1 Sept 1940

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2020-09-01

is here and we just love these old 19th c anatomical illustrations of the human body! Today we take a look at the internal framework of the human body: the These images come from Hartan's Anatomical Illustrations!

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2020-09-01

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Her sister marries the man she loves. Marnay only wrote a few romances, this one published in Oct 1965 https://t.co/dxVRymqf8q

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2020-08-15

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Converse wrote a number of nurse romances https://t.co/YTTcFb34Ks This title was first published in 1971. Converse died in 2002

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2020-08-08

Image from a 1843 anatomical table showing a thoracic aortic taken from the work "General of the pathological a#natomy of the human of (1791-1874). First Italian version of Pietro Banchelli.

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2020-07-31

in 1847, was born Paul He discovered, in 1869, studying the the islets that bear his name. These islets contain clusters of cells that respond with hormone production to levels.

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2020-07-26

The word "#hernia" comes from the Greek "ἔρνος" (èrnos) and means "sprout". Before the introduction of the surgical repair technique by Edoardo Bassini in 1884, inguinal hernias were treated only with the application of belts.

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2020-07-24

Images of surgical of taken from the "Traitè complet de l'#anatomie de l'#homme comprendant l'anatomie chiururgicale" of J. e C. (1866).

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2020-07-20

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Betty Neels wrote more than 130 romance novels 1969-2001 https://t.co/gzEDB1zntV
This one published in 1970 https://t.co/FoHqBppmmN

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2020-07-18

Jean B.M. (1797-1849) in 1830 began his work "Traité complet de l'#anatomie de l'#homme comprenant la operatoire", a of human which was published in eight volumes.

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2020-07-18