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A lovely #anatomical #sketch and #watercolour found in a book and being used a a bookmark for #tbt. What do you use as a bookmark? #ThrowbackThursday #HistMed #anatomy
One of two operating theatres opened at Wythenshawe Hospital in 1943 #medicalphotography #histmed #surgery
1819 Aug 9: William Thomas Green Morton was born. He demonstrated ether anesthesia in Boston in Oct 1846 https://t.co/Y3pBnjVyIh Died 1868 #histmed #OTD
"Doctors today are relearning lessons from a century ago when overprescription of opioids created an epidemic of addicts, most of whom were upper-class or middle-class women." Read more at Hektoen International: https://t.co/5GcNpLMXRB
#HistMed #MedHums
1774 Aug 1: Joseph Priestley experiment released a gas that turned out to be oxygen https://t.co/30PMxTpnj6 #histmed
Advert for Sayre's Apparatus, 1882. Patient would be suspended by the head and axillae, and wrapped in a plaster-of-Paris jacket. First used by American orthopaedic surgeon Lewis Sayre in 1874 in the treatment of Pott's disease #histmed
We are not sure we want to go on this toboggan ride! This ad, from our William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards, is for Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil #histmed https://t.co/aPkBSbi0C3
The birth of #arthroscopy? In 1912, the danish surgeon Severin Nordentoft presented a work in which he showed his technique to study the #knee #joint with an #endoscope he had borrowed from the thoracoscope used by a colleague of his.
#orthopedics #histmed #surgery #science
1868 July 15: William Morton died in NYC; his anesthesia legacy lives on around the world https://t.co/jlcgQqY93U #histmed
Anesthesia #History Calendar https://t.co/tm6vNrR38W Newer PDF version at https://t.co/Ry8ePx5jG1 #histmed
This lovely common peony engraving comes from William Woodville's Medical Botany (1790-1793). #medicalbotany #histmed
Scottish anatomist Charles Bell composed his 1802 Engravings of the Arteries for medical students, to underscore the role of illustration in enhancing medical understanding. Explore it here: https://t.co/9Fizt46zxR #medicalhumanities #histmed
In 1945, @PPFA published pamphlets like “the soldier takes a wife” targeting #veterans promoting family life and family planning #histmed #plannedparenthood
Today's Find: Blog post #Birmingham Photo of the Day (9): McAdory Home & Infirmary in 1910
https://t.co/2JcDne6bPT #Alabama #bham #histmed
Today is #PTSDAwarenessDay.
PTSD as a diagnosis is relatively new, but trauma from serving in war zones has been observed in historical military populations.
In the #FWW, for instance, war trauma was described as 'war neurosis' or 'shell shock'.
#DisHist #histmed
The Flemish anatomist Adrian van de Spiegel (1578-1625) died before he finished his anatomy text, De formation foetu liber singularis, with plates drawn by Fialetti, a student of Titian's #histmed