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"Physicist or physician? Scientist or healer? Artificially, these are divisions that have classified doctors through the ages. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) showed that it was possible to be an amalgam of both." https://t.co/ezoFLyd9pr

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2019-06-08

This lush and richly-colored sarsaparilla illustration comes from Robert Bentley's Medicinal plants (1880). Sarsaparilla was touted to have many medicinal uses, including helping with skin problems.

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2019-06-06

This consider the poppy in this post on war, remembrance, and blooms on our blog: https://t.co/ocofIXMkzT

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2019-05-25

In preparation for his remarkable anatomy, Jean-Galbert Salvage (1770-1813) ordered a plaster cast of the Gladiator from the Musee Napoloen and worked it over, carving an anatomized interpretation into the plaster

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2019-05-24

No (errrrr....) way, Sherlock? Did you know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first publication was in a medical journal? Celebrate his birthday, in 1859 by reading about his contributions https://t.co/mINkxiNdk1

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2019-05-22

For check out our new blog post by at https://t.co/SYTSygevHI to discover how Sodium Thiopental connects childbirth, spy fiction and Pearl Harbor. It’s always fun to find little secrets like this!

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2019-05-14

Scottish anatomist Charles Bell composed this 1802 work for medical students, and aimed to offer accurately and simply-rendered illustrations of the arteries https://t.co/XJHysoisIJ

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2019-05-11

Early 20th century facsimiles based on 'Fasciculus Medicinae', a collection of medical texts first printed in 1491 with some of the earliest known anatomical woodcuts, including depictions of the pregnant body

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2019-05-05

2004 May 2: Dr. John Michenfelder died; he was a major figure in neuroanesthesia https://t.co/2HyUjoPOU1

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2019-05-02

My article 'A history of amulets in ten objects' has just been published by the journal! It's free, open access, and fantastic to be able to include so many images (& videos!) which help brings the research to life. https://t.co/uX4NvIMAjS

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2019-05-02

This lush and richly-colored sarsaparilla illustration comes from Robert Bentley's Medicinal plants (1880). Sarsaparilla was touted to have many medicinal uses, including helping with skin problems.

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2019-05-01

Wheeeee! For our favorite cat on a toboggan, from Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil

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2019-04-27

Striking representations of secondary syphilis. These colour plates appeared in a work by James George Beaney, FRCSEd who intended them to serve as "pictorial illustrations of the ravages syphilis makes on the skin" https://t.co/912lFObzIF

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2019-04-23

Today’s Find: This 1970 film was the second one from Roger Corman’s low-budget production company & began a popular series of nurse “exploitation” films https://t.co/v2cCpRZ34F

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2019-04-13

Astonishing illustrations catalogued today from Baumgärtner's 'Kranken-Physiognomik' (1842). 80 coloured lithograph plates of patients drawn "from nature"

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2019-04-12

Alchemy and medicine were connected in the eatly modern period, since beyond the idea of making gold,  offered the 'panacea', a medicine capable of healing all diseases. Pics: Medice&Alchemy print, 1512, and our own alembic.

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2019-04-01

Open wide! This plate from J. M. Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (1831-1854) shows mouth anatomy in detail.

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2019-03-28

Today’s Find: "A Rather Straightforward Problem": Unravelling
Networks of Segregation in Psychiatric Hospitals, 1966–1972 by Kylie Smith in the new book “Viral Networks Connecting Digital Humanities & Medical History” https://t.co/0OfO2Ez8wA

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2019-03-13

This amazingly detailed medical illustration depicts an aneurysm at the base of the brain. The attending surgeon was William Morgan (1791-1860)

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2019-03-12