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

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2020-01-31

Inflammation and abscesses over the shoulder and back, stemming from a gunshot wound. From The Principles of Surgery by John Bell, 1801.

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2020-01-31

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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2020-01-28

Albrecht von Haller (1708 – 1777) was a swiss anatomist. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern In 1757, he conducted a famous series of experiments to distinguish between impulses and muscular contractions.

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2020-01-15

Joseph Constantine Carpue performed the first rhinoplastic surgery in England, and published information about the procedure in An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead (1816), from which these images come

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2020-01-11

Today's Find: Blog post "#Birmingham Photo of the Day (9): McAdory Home & Infirmary in 1910"
https://t.co/2JcDne6bPT

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2020-01-09

Charles Howard Usher (1865-1942) was a scottish ophthalmologist. Usher is known for the eponymous which he described in a 1914. He based his findings on a survey of 69 individuals who suffered from visual problems associated with

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2019-12-30

This delightful little scene advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for some not-so-delightful physical ailments comes from our William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards https://t.co/F5tznT6U9c

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2019-12-27

Diego Rivera's "#Vaccination" 1932-1933 mural celebrates medical science with composition resembling
lab instead of manger, nurse instead of Mary & scientists instead 3 Kings. But animals (used for vaccine production) are still here!

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2019-12-25

1298 Dec 24: Italian bishop & physician Theodoric of Lucca died. Developed "soporific sponges" for surgical pain relief https://t.co/ltiT8qdweH

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2019-12-24

(New Book) British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918 https://t.co/IE3LXAOxa0

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2019-12-20

Lee's Patented Metallic Splits (this set is for "infants" 3 and younger) are prominently featured in this medical supply catalog and price list from J. Ellwood Lee Co. (1900)

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2019-12-14

The plot revolves around Xavier’s “Academy of Surgical Research” and a string of murders involving a “strange surgical knife.” Before it’s over there's cannibalism, use of a knockout gas & the search for artificial skin. Based on a Broadway play “The Terror”

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2019-12-10

Today’s Find: One of my articles “Eat Some Lettuce & See Me in the Morning: The Endless Search for Pain Relief” https://t.co/RWpaGqFoyw (Access requires free registration)

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2019-12-06

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was a Dutch businessman and scientist. He is commonly known as "the Father of and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists.

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2019-12-06

Cure the croup in one minute! That's what this trade card for Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam claims, anyway!

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2019-12-05