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Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) the German psychiatrist who coined the term agoraphobia

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2022-09-12

1846 Sept 7: Gilbert Abbott met with surgeon John Collins Warren in Boston about his neck tumor; the Oct 16 surgery is now known as Ether Day https://t.co/TSF8TN22h4

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2022-09-08

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: Wood & Selick Cough Drops https://t.co/qB7HMN5M6n Via the Helfand Collection Located in NY https://t.co/bKX5WDRRuj

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2022-09-05

Today's Painting: Lillian Wald who led U.S. Nurses' Emergency Council during 1918 flu epidemic https://t.co/abndI8qGv6 This 1919 portrait is by William Valentine Schevill She was born 10 Mar 1867 & died 1 Sept 1940

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2022-09-02

Today’s Find: Saturday Evening Post cover 31 Aug 1918 https://t.co/FSFo3C1Bxt At the time the Post was one of the most widely circulated magazines in the U.S.

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2022-09-01

Really looking forward to this evening’s event on Ireland and past pandemics

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2022-08-19

The latest in our rare books series highlights Sir Humphry Davy - illustrious former owner of a book on the plague now in our Library 📚

Read more here: https://t.co/22P9t9igtT


(Image - Gillray cartoon of Davy demonstrating nitrous oxide .)

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2022-08-12

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

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

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

a weekly dose of

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

utilizada en alguna de las obras producidas por la establecida en Monasterio de San Salvador de representando la preparación de productos medicinales (simples) basados en la manipulación de las plantas

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2022-07-05

Indigestion as depicted by British caricaturist George Cruikshank (1792-1878)

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2022-07-04

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