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Sunday Patent Medicine Calendar: The Antikamnia Chemical Co did some wonderfully macabre calendars for several years https://t.co/pbTczG8i6F

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2019-09-15

1846 Sept 7: Gilbert Abbott met with surgeon John Collins Warren in Boston about his neck tumor; the Oct 16 surgery now known as Ether Day https://t.co/HI1kmdKSmC

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2019-09-07

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Her sister marries the man she loves https://t.co/dxVRymHPZY Published in 1965

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2019-08-28

The anatomist and surgeon Guido Guidi the Elder (Vidius Vidi) was born in Florence in 1507. The name of the Guidi is linked to the channel which from him takes the name of 'Vidian' and which is found in the sphenoid (pterygoid canal).

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2019-08-21

From The anatomy and philosophy of expression (c.1877) by Charles Bell - a comparison between the facial muscles of a dog and a human.

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2019-08-15

A lovely and found in a book and being used a a bookmark for What do you use as a bookmark?

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2019-08-15

"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

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2019-08-08

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

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2019-07-25

Allen O. (1881-1963) was a well-known pioneer surgeon of pancreatic surgery. In an article entitled "The surgical of hyperinsulinism" (1938), he proposed that no be performed to look for an unless his criteria were met.

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2019-07-23

The birth of In 1912, the danish surgeon Severin Nordentoft presented a work in which he showed his technique to study the with an he had borrowed from the thoracoscope used by a colleague of his.

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2019-07-22

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Cards: One of my favorites. Developed in Chicago in 1861 by magician John Austin Hamlin & his brother https://t.co/AoplTqb6gw Sold until at least ca. WWI

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2019-06-16

"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

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

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

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