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Today’s Find: “Five Days at Memorial” Apple TV+ series premiers Aug 12; dramatizes conditions at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina landfall. Based on the book by Sheri Fink https://t.co/2QFrUvmDsv & https://t.co/Mie5IJHefB

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2022-08-06

Today's Find: Nurses' uniform patterns from Butterick 1980's. Ebenezer Butterick founded the company in the 1860's in NYC; in 2001 it was acquired by McCall Pattern Company https://t.co/OmcSJFZbzr

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2022-08-05

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Hale [1924-1982] wrote more than 100 romances under various pseudonyms; many are medical https://t.co/Eglutl1TpH This one first published in 1965

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2022-08-04

As the apothecary serves a crowd of eager customers we can see his assistant Death using the mortar behind a curtain to mix poison. From Rowlandson’s Death and the apothecary - part of the exhibition at )

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2022-08-03

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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2022-08-02

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Joseph Keller's sure cure https://t.co/reeZ5shwtS Via the Helfand Collection

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2022-08-01

Today’s Find: This film from 1971 was the second in the series of nurse films from Roger Corman’s low-budget production company https://t.co/fMQxXE44CR

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2022-07-27

Sunday Patent Medicine Card: Weak? Languid? Nervous? Take the Iron Bitters! https://t.co/hCdHCpkn3V For more on bitters see https://t.co/Svq4VapPfI

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2022-07-25

Today’s Find: Theodore Dreiser’s one-act play “Laughing Gas” first published in the Feb 1915 issue of “The Smart Set”. A physician undergoes anesthesia w/strange experiences. My article about the play is at https://t.co/SF596RC1uX

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2022-07-25

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Jennings was a pseudonym used for his medical romances by prolific author John Stephen Glasby [1928-2011] who also wrote westerns, science fiction, espionage etc https://t.co/nW7q7kmqcd This one published 1961

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2022-07-24

The thoracic aorta and it's branches from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter

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2022-07-21

Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Jan Tempest [1904-1988] wrote numerous romances, including many medical https://t.co/MpqX3i5IKv This title published in 1966

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2022-07-17

Para la lucha, “aunque comunique fuerza... ocasiona peligro de relajación, fractura de los huesos y sofocación” G. Mercuriale, “Arte gymnastica” (#Venecia, 1601). Grabado de Coriolano https://t.co/5olovX5vaz

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2022-07-15

The mouth from 'The Practical Guide to Health' by Frederick M. Rossiter (1910)

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2022-07-14

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Raissa Nitabuch (1859–?) 🇷🇺 was a pathologist best known for contributing to our understanding of human placenta anatomy

She is the ONLY woman whose name is a macroscopic anatomical eponym: Nitabuch fibrinoid / layer

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2022-07-14

1757 July 13: English artist Thomas Rowlandson was born https://t.co/IwBECgjmJz
His many caricatures included some 100 featuring medical images. Died 21 April 1827 This one is "Medical Dispatch, or Doctor Doubledose killing two Birds with one Stone"

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2022-07-14

Today’s Find: Theodore Dreiser’s short story “The Country Doctor” was first published in July 1918 & included in his collection “Twelve Men” in 1919. Fictional profile based on a physician Dreiser knew as a teenager in Indiana in the 1880’s https://t.co/bl4ey23bFR

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2022-07-09

Today's Find: "Discoverer of Anaesthesia" item in Am J Dent Sci July 1873 promoting Horace Wells https://t.co/DGyLqEkege
Reprinted from the June 21 Med Surg Reporter

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2022-07-09