Today's Comic: "Linda Carter Student Nurse" Sept 1962. Carter later appeared in the "Night Nurse" comic https://t.co/8rDc76jrhb

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Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Frazer published at least 14 nurse novels in the 1960's https://t.co/4pLBPWrmkx
This one was the first, published in 1961

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Today’s Comic Book: “Girls’ Romances” Sept 1957 https://t.co/lpyTSQD8F0

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Today's Painting: Lillian Wald who led U.S. Nurses' Emergency Council during 1918 flu epidemic https://t.co/EAzpTIF8cS
This 1919 portrait is by William Valentine Schevill She was born 10 Mar 1867 & died 1 Sept 1940

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In 1685 Govard Bidloo published an anatomical atlas, "#Anatomia Hvmani Corporis". The book was later plagiarized by english surgeon William Cowper for his "#Anatomy of the Humane Bodies" (1698), which gave no credit to Bidloo.

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Govard Bidloo (1649-1713) was a Dutch Golden Age anatomist, poet and playwright. In 1685 he published an anatomical atlas illustrated with 105 plates by Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers.

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Today’s Find: "Saturday Evening Post" cover 31 Aug 1918 https://t.co/Dd4wEISshe At the time the Post was one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S.

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Today’s Find: Something seems very wrong at this hospital..or clinic…or whatever. This pulp magazine was published from 1934 to 1942; this issue Aug 1939 https://t.co/kPwFTk2Thd
Bellem was a prolific pulp author for 30 yrs & then wrote for TV https://t.co/fow7b7VA4M

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of 1910 Vivien Theodore Thomas was born. He was an american laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.

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The great italian anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachio died on august of 1574 at the age of 64. He described the tuba auditiva, which was named after him.

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Treitz's ligament takes its eponym from the czech Václav Treitz who described it for the first time in 1853. He was one of the first to support thesis and died of 1872 at the age of 53.

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Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the H.R. Stevens Company in Boston, ca. 1880. Here's another one https://t.co/qQm7ejQ9Ia

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'The Anatomist Overtaken by The Watch'

Love the rattle that the watchman has in this picture
(and the knobbly knees)

📸 Wellcome Images

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Today’s Comic Book: Only two issues published, Aug & Nov 1964. Adapted from a novel by Frank Haskell https://t.co/q3KTpq39lW

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Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Kay Winchester published a number of romances between 1949 & 1983 including many medical https://t.co/zT4ToHTTrx This title published in 1958

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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/nAxL7U5tUl English lyrics by Jack Caddigan & music by James A. Brennan for this version

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1774 Aug 1: One of Joseph Priestley's experiments released a gas that turned out to be oxygen https://t.co/30PMxTpnj6

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Today's Vintage Book Cover: Thomey was a journalist & fiction author who died in 2008 https://t.co/tvCkP1TTjd
This novel published in 1956

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Today’s Find: This 1973 film was the fourth and final one in the series of nurse films from Roger Corman’s low-budget production company
https://t.co/cc2Npb8gBb

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July 27: Feast day of Catholic Saint Pantaleon physician to Emperor Maximinianus & patron of physicians and midwives. Died about 305 AD https://t.co/sqrZp4Ma6F

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