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Today’s Find: “The Cobweb” is a 1955 film https://t.co/zKYL4kQI11 Based on William Gibson novel https://t.co/3XQZjRqQWX The intersecting lives of doctors, staff & patients at a large psychiatric hospital are filtered thru an epic battle over new curtains for the library #histmed
Bailliere produced a number of anatomical atlases, including this 1921 anatomy, casting the female body as #VenusdeMilo #histmed
Thanks for joining us today @MadleyPrimarySc. We hope we didn't give anyone nightmares, and hope they enjoyed learning all about the retro and real nursing remedies for #SpanishFlu! Don't forget to #WashYourHands #HistMed @InfirmaryWorc
Today's Find: 27 Feb 1978 newspaper article "'Dr X' on Trial in Curare Deaths" https://t.co/qUnyiJbfSN #histmed
Today's Photo: #Birmingham Medical College students & their snowman https://t.co/5wAVSF8nNu Feb 25, 1914 #Alabama #bham #histmed
The Flemish anatomist Adrian van de Spiegel (1578-1625) died before he finished is anatomy text, de formation foetu liber singularis, with plates drawn by Fialetti, a student of Titian's #Histmed
Day 2 of 7 #bookscovers without explanation! #rarebooks #HistMed
A little turmeric for your morning tea via Robert
Bentley's 1880 Medical Botany https://t.co/2yfG0tRVmU #histmed
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/csrnotYau1 #histmed
Edward Jenner, #English physician, scientist and 'father of immunology' (who did refine the discipline of vaccination) died #OTD 1823 < Holding Their Breath https://t.co/GtG1WtxiSl < #histmed #medhum #Georgian #vaccination
Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: "For Dyspepsia & Debility" Late 19th century https://t.co/K8dhvrvCPA #histmed
#dyk in 1745, Richard Mead, physician at Old St Thomas' Hospital, was the first known Westerner to suggest blowing smoke up people's arses as an effective test to check if people were #dead before being #buried. #histmed #nowyouknow -> #BuriedAlive article https://t.co/Dk501iTPVt
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 #histmed
On the 11th Day of Christmas we look back at 1964 when the @RCSI_Irl Council hosted a dinner for his Excellency the President of Ireland Mr. Eamon De Valera. #12DaysofChristmas #HistMed
The Flemish anatomist Adrian van de Spiegel (1578-1625) died before he finished is anatomy text, de formation foetu liber singularis, with plates drawn by Fialetti, a student of Titian's #Histmed
This plate from William P. C. Barton's Vegetable Materia Medica (1817) features Chimaphila umbellata, also known as prince's pine, umbellate wintergreen, or pipsissewa. Although Barton was interested in its medicinal uses, this plant is also used to flavor root beer! #histmed
Eating too many sweets over the Christmas? On the 3rd day of Christmas we can take a look at all the sweet treats enjoyed at the 1914 @RCSI_Irl Charter Day dinner 🍧 #12DaysofChristmas #HistMed
1298 Dec 24: Italian bishop & physician Theodoric of Lucca died. Developed "soporific sponges" for surgical pain relief https://t.co/ltiT8pVVn9 #histmed