Today's Find: Many of the vintage medical book covers I've tweeted https://t.co/im9QxWuDLR Keep searching!

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1915 June 1: T.S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” first published in "Poetry" magazine. “Let us go then, you and I,/When the evening is spread out against the sky/Like a patient etherized upon a table…” https://t.co/ITgsLCzQPm

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Saturday Vintage Book Cover: Thorne wrote a few romances; this title the only medical one I found https://t.co/ilVeFloJ1G First published in 1963 as "Enter Nurse Marian"

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Today’s Find: Louis Crucius, MD, 1862-1898] created the wonderful Antikamnia calendar art issued 1897-1901 https://t.co/FSbiKD63QZ The company bought 30 of his watercolors just before his death at 35 after kidney surgery

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The latest exhibition on doctors in visual satire is a treasure trove! As a researcher of death and medicine in satire I was delighted to see some familiar images - as well as many lurking skeletons

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Today's Find: On May 4, 1889, prominent Chicago physician Dr. Patrick Cronin disappeared https://t.co/NkNVv49hl8
He had crossed members of Clan-na-Gael, an organization in the U.S. raising money for Irish independence. He was also a member. His body was found May 22

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Images of the pancreas taken from the Atlas of Human "Heitzmann - Zuckerkandl", ninth edition, 1905.

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Ambroise Paré, famous for improving amputation techniques in the 16th century.

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Today’s Find: These dolls were associated with McCall’s magazine 1941-2000 https://t.co/ahv55KufPJ

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Today's Find: Some of the many historical items related to cocaine that I've tweeted https://t.co/rGibdZMRSg

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1944 May 12: Prolific author Frederick Faust AKA Max Brand died https://t.co/9pF739Bdvd One of his many creations was Dr. Kildare who also appeared in films, radio, a comic book & comic strip & TV https://t.co/9lvkYXviaB

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The exhibition [Re]Framing Comics and the History of Medicine has opened Co-curated with Andre Wenzel, with support from

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"In the vertebral column the centra of the vertebrae are excavated, while the intervertebral discs project are unchanged"
[Destruction of by - Textbook of by MacCallum, 1917]

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Matthew Baillie (1761-1823) was pioneer of systematic pathology.
His textbook "Morbid of the Human published in 1793, and its accompanying atlas, constituted the first which dealt exclusively with system-based



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Today's Find: Anesthesia & medical history items from my Twitter feed 16-30 April via https://t.co/cfIEBOAMAT

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