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Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: For a druggist in Massachusetts; via the Helfand Collection https://t.co/iNYVfqcyI3

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2022-06-27

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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2022-06-26

Anatomy of the skull from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter

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2022-06-25

Etching of William Burke murdering Margaret Docherty by Robert Seymour (1829). Burke and William Hare famously committed 16 murders over about ten months in 1828 and sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

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2022-06-23

The italian physiologist Carlo Matteucci was born in 1811. With his experiments on frogs he studied animal His "rheoscopic" frog was unique.

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2022-06-22

Today's Find: "Discoverer of Anaesthesia" item in Am J Dent Sci July 1873 promoting Horace Wells https://t.co/DGyLqEBP7M
Reprinted from the June 21 Med Surg Reporter

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2022-06-22

Today's Find: Many of the patent medicine ads & trade cards I've tweeted https://t.co/PqiouVrxqM

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2022-06-21

Today's Find: Anesthesia & medical history items from my Twitter feed via https://t.co/cfIEBOjbJl histmed

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2022-06-18

1667 June 15: Exact date is disputed. A Parisian physician Jean-Baptiste Denis (1640?-1704, sometimes spelled “Denys”), performed first documented blood transfusion involving a human on either June 15 or 28. https://t.co/aEbDF0SSY8

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2022-06-16

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Holloway wrote various romances, some medical https://t.co/r4HRfk3TNw This paperback published 1972

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2022-06-16

1752 June 13: English novelist Frances Burney was born. On Sept 30, 1811, Burney underwent a mastectomy for suspected breast cancer; she refused any drugs or alcohol. In 1812, Burney wrote a letter about her surgery w/out anesthesia https://t.co/V1sB6PLjFx

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2022-06-14

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the Helfand Collection via https://t.co/h7vPE7nuXS John L. Hunnewell's formula manufactured by the Gilman Bros in Boston in the 1890s

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2022-06-13

Superficial dissection of the left side of the neck, from "An Atlas and Epitome of Operative Aanatomy" by Otto Zuckerkandl

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2022-06-11

Thoracic patient suffering from severe left pulmonary tuberculosis undergoing resection of the tubercular cavity and ribs (from IV to VIII) in 1895 by Dr. Macewen. The photograph was taken in 1911.

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2022-06-10

Seen from behind: schematic and radiological images of the chest as shown in the text "Surgery of the lung", by Karl Garrè and Heinrich Quincke, published in 1912.

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2022-06-09

Technique for measuring intracranial pressure by lumbar puncture as proposed by Heinrich Quincke in his booklet of 1902 “Die Technik der Lumbalpunktion”.

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2022-06-08

Today's Find: Neels [b. 15 Sept 1909 d. 7 June 2001] wrote more than 130 romances published by Mills & Boon in England then by Harlequin in the U.S. https://t.co/z70x4ViDyp This title first published in 1974

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2022-06-08

Today's Find: The 1950 film "Mystery Street" includes a forensic scientist at Harvard Medical School helping a murder investigation https://t.co/7zR1mj1akj Shot on location in Boston & Cape Cod & the first Hollywood film shot in the city

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2022-06-05