#MedHist

#museum #histodons #histmed #medhist #onlineshop #shopping #shoplocal #museumshop

2 months ago

We are delighted to announce we now have an online shop! We sell a wide variety of items- from brain shaped cookie cutters to skeleton nesting dolls!
You can check it out for yourself here: https://shop.museum.rcsed.ac.uk/

#histodons #histmed #histodon #medhist #medhistorian #medmastodon #believeitornot #DYK

The COCARETTE was a cigarette made with coca & tobacco leaves, c.1885. The company claimed that coca was “the finest nerve tonic and exhilarator ever discovered.”

An advert for "Cocarettes" depicting a woman smoking on the front of the package, and a list of reasons to smoke them on the back.

#histodons #histodon #histmed #histsci #DYK #medhist #medmastodon

In the 1930s, Listerine cigarettes were created. The tobacco was infused with the same antiseptic oils used in the mouthwash for a "cooling and soothing effect." Listerine cigarettes were evidently not very popular because there is almost no record of their existence.

A green tin advertising Listerine Cigarettes.

Back of the green tin which claims the cigarettes are meant to be "cooling and soothing."

#HistMed #MedHist #HistSci #MedMastodon #Histodon #Histodons #History #MuseumArchive #MuseumObject #FF

Midwifery Bag, c.1866 - containing destructive & non-destructive instruments. This bag would likely have belonged to a male midwife/obstetrican as female midwives traditionally did not use instruments when delivering babies in this period.

Photo: Science Museum, London.

A black leather bag that is open, revealing various midwifery instruments and pharmaceutical bottles.

#museum #edinburgh #dentist #dentistry #histmed #medhist #history #histodons

This knuckle-duster belonged to dentist Frederick Smith. Smith was a dentist in Chesterfield. He carried this knuckle-duster as protection from "highwaymen" on his weekly horse drawn cab journey to his practice in Alfreton.

John Ross

4 months ago

Francisco Torti's Tree of Fevers, 1712. Torti, an Italian physician, was the first to systemically study the medicinal effects of cinchona bark (the source of quinine), also known as Peruvian or Jesuit bark. Intermittent fevers, the branches with bark on the left, responded to cinchona, while continuous fevers, the branches without bark on the right, did not. The intermittent fevers were probably due to malaria, an endemic disease in much of Europe well into the 20th century. #MedEd #MedHist

"Lignum Febrium," the Tree of Fevers, from the writings of the 18th century Italian physician Francisco Torti.

#histmed #histsci #histodons #mastodon #introduction #medhist #medhistory #MedMastodon #museumobject #steampunk

4 months ago

Tinted, double-hinged spectacles, c.1790. Many opticians believed green or blue glass was easier on the eyes and would reduce glare; while clear glass was too soft and would distort images.

This extraordinary example is from the Wellcome Collection in London.

A pair of blue tinted spectacles with glass hinges on either side.

#histodons #mastodon #introduction #histmed #histsci #museumobject #medhist #MedMastodon

4 months ago

"The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. Carved from ivory, the two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs.

Two carvings of a tooth. Inside are scenes from Hell.

Dr Christine Slobogin

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0A6ky1cqp9c4qNvwl7ueYj?si=010dca9b90e5422c

A new "For the Medical Record" is out! We talk to brilliant Beatrix Hoffman about her project "Borders of Care: A History of Immigration, Migration, and the Right to Health Care"
Beatrix is *such* a good historian, and this project is so necessary. In this episode we talk specifically about her chapter on the post-war Bracero program, and the intersection of immigration, labor, and healthcare.
#newepisode #podcast #medhist #medicalhumanities #medhums #histodons #histSTM

#histmed #medhist #pharmacy #herbalism #medievalhistory #medievodons #manuscripts

A nice cover story on my and my NLM Fellowship from my institution: https://www.stfx.ca/about/news/Winston-Black

Mela Eckenfels

http://bedside-rounds.org

@janinefunke @histodon

Und zum Schluss noch ein tolles Beispiel. Ein medizinhistorischer Podcast, so unterhaltsam wie lehrreich und US-Ärzte können sogar Fortbildungspunkte bekommen, wenn sie ihn anhören. Also der Anspruch ist auf jeden Fall wissenschaftlich.

#histodons #histodon #medhist

#histodon #museum #history #events #edinburgh #histmed #medhist #scotland

January can be a long and dreich month. However, we some great events taking place this month to lighten things up a little!
You can find out more information on our upcoming events here: https://buff.ly/2G5Drmq

#histmed #histsci #histodons #TIL #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #anatomy #MedHist #science #medicine #Weird

Oldest-surviving anatomical theatre, located in Padua and built in 1594. Over the entrance is the Latin inscription: “hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitam.” Roughly: “this is the place where death delights to help life (or the living).”

Photo: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni.

A theatre with rows and rows of stadium seating and wooden rails. It is very steep. In the middle is a small table where humans or animals would have been dissected.

#histodons #WeirdHistory #WeirdFacts #MedMastodon #history #MedHist

Coca wine was an alcoholic beverage in the 19th century that featured both wine and cocaine. One popular brand, Vin Mariani, was enjoyed by Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Thomas Edison claimed it helped him stay awake longer. I can't imagine why!

A photo of an old bottle with a table that reads: "Coca Wine"

Tuija Ainonen

@pelielios @medievodons

There is so much interesting stuff in these manuscripts, I'm hardly scraping the surface when cataloguing!

Today I learned new vocabulary: these certain kinds of flasks with flared mouths are known as #jordans

I'm sure this is well known to #medicalHistory people out there. Once the MSS are digitised I hope the real researchers will run with them!
#medHist #histMed #alchemy

@gabrielheyman Hi thanks for your question! I think you're right about doctors in just the early modern period (ca.1500-1800) because they used significantly more bloodletting, mercury, and dangerous chemicals guided by humoralism, as you say.
But in the medieval period a few effective (or biochemically active and potentially dangerous) "drugs" stand out: opium, artemisia, wormwood, henbane, hellebore. And don't underestimate honey, wine, and vinegar as mild antiseptics.
#medhist #histmed

Tuija Ainonen

#medHist #MedicalHistory #medievalManuscripts #medieval #manuscripts
#CuriousCures @medievodons

In summer 2022 Cambridge University Library launched an exciting new project diving in to the world of #medieval medicine.

From stuffing puppies to salting owls, what cures did our ancestors use to treat everyday aliments?

Find out more about the project:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-medieval-medicine

An opening from a Middle English medical urinary tract, showing coloured uninary sample along with text.
Cambridge University Library MS Dd.6.29 (folios 27v-28r).

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/NLM_Announces_2023_Michael_E_DeBakey_Fellows_in_the_History_of_Medicine.html

Exciting news: I have just been named a 2023 DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine (NIH) to pursue research and travel for my research project
"Medieval Medicine in Transition: The Manuscript Evidence from Twelfth Century England".

#histmed #medhist #herbalism #manuscript #medievalhistory

Brian Gettler

#History #histodons #CdnHist #histmed #medhist #MedicalHistory @histodons

This reminds me of a book chapter by #historian Kristen Burnett, "Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada" (2011) that my students always love. It describes the critical role #Indigenous #midwives played in delivering settler babies in 19th- and early 20th-century #Canada.

https://archive.org/details/Recollecting/page/n165/mode/2up

Dr Christine Slobogin

#newepisode #podcast #disability #disabilitystudies #medhums #medicalhumanities #histodons #medhist #histSTM

NEW EPISODE!!
Am really proud of this one.

🎞️ Disability, Bad Horror, and M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’ 🎞️

We talk about what makes good horror; harmful reps of disability; the history of medical experimentation; and “crip time”. We may not recommend watching this film, but we def recommend thinking through it!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/52bJPNR2FhHDUouK8W8xmN?si=70fe39339b9c447c

movie poster for M. Night Shyamalan's 'Old.' Waves on a beach are lapping up to a woman's feet. One foot is young, and one is skeletal. The hand resting on the skeletal foot is wrinkled and old. Below this and above the film title: "It's only a matter of time"

#histmed #medhist #pharmacy #herbalism #medicalhistory

I'm having a blast putting the finishing touches on my history seminar for next semester at StFX: "Drugs and Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Laboratory". In many ways it sums up my last 15 years of research, and the work of many friends, mentors, and academic heroes. I'll be exploring the definition and use of "drugs" ("medicamenta" in Latin, "pharmaka" in Greek) in Western culture from Hippocrates up to colonial Atlantic medicine.

Fourteenth-century manuscript illumination of an apothecary's shop on the ground floor of a castle-like building, probably meant to represent Paris. From British Library manuscript Sloane 1977, a copy of the "Antidotarium Magnum". An apothecary holds a drug jar while talking to a customer, and behind them are shelves lined with other, highly decorated drug jars. Both figures wear long clerical robes and the apothecary wears a green hat typical of scholars in this period of medieval history.

A printed engraving made in 1568 by Jost Amman, labelled "Apotecarius, Der Apotecker", meaning “The Apothecary”. It shows a pharmacist grinding medicines in a large mortar in a busy and crowded pharmacy shop. In front of the counter are a dog and two customers, with their backs turned, looking at bottles and ingredients. The image is surrounded by a Latin poem in ten lines describing the skills and achievements of an apothecary.

Alexander Wood devised the first syringe for the injection of a local anaesthetic in 1853. He used an opium preparation -the antecedent to modern morphine. Wood used this syringe for the first subcutaneous injection of morphia in the UK.
#histodons #histmed #medhist #surgery #history

Wow, not feeling too good today, and now totally bowled over by a pile of good news. Just invited to two interviews for my work on #Pentiment video game, and also received confirmation that an edited volume on #medhist #histmed for which I submitted an abstract has found a publisher, my chapter included.

John Ross

Ancient Roman lead pollution in Greenland ice cores. The major source of ancient atmospheric lead was the smelting of lead-silver ores (galena). Lead pollution plummeted around AD 165, coincident with the Antonine plague (possibly smallpox), and failed to recover during the late Roman Empire, which featured the Cyprian plague in AD 249-262, political instability, foreign invasions, and a deteriorating climate, with the end of the Roman Climate Optimum. #histmed #medhist https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1721818115

Graph showing that ancient lead pollution (as measured in Greenland ice cores) fell abruptly around AD 165, coincident with the Antonine Plague.
Lead was a by-product of silver mining, and its production probably reflected overall levels of economic activity. At the same time, silver content of the Roman denarius fell from 98% to 2%; in the later Roman empire, the denarius was a copper coin with a thin coating of silver.

#histodon #medhist #histmed #sherlock

Joseph Bell was born #OTD in 1837. Bell was a surgeon and lecturer at Edinburgh University. Arthur Conan Doyle, openly credited Bell as being the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
You can read more about the inspiration for Sherlock here: https://bit.ly/3kfhtlx

#histmed #medhist #history #histodons #edinburgh #surgery

Joseph Lister invented the carbolic acid spray as he believed the main source for infection was air-borne germs. Both the wound and the atmosphere of the operating table would be sprayed with a fine mist of watered-down carbolic acid in order to kill bacteria.

A gold cylindrical device. It has a exposed mesh in the middle and a valve at the bottom. There is a wooden handle sticking out from one side and a glass jar on the other.

Ninon Dubourg

#histodons #archeodons #Ancient #Medieval #Health #histmed #medhist #Premodern

Hi Mastodon Folks!

I have created a #DisHist group (#Disability #History, #DisabilityHistory) if you want to follow/join so that our little community gathers again!

See you soon at @disabilityhistory

Credit: A large crowd standing and kneeling at a well, with injured and disabled figures begging and being attended to. Watercolour. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Children in iron lung (1937) before the advent of the polio vaccine. The iron lung is a mechanical respirator that enables a person to breathe when muscle control is lost.

In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. In extreme cases, the virus can cause spinal and respiratory paralysis, making it impossible to breathe. The iron lung saved countless lives. #vaccines #histmed #medhist #histodons #history #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon

A compilation of three black and white photos. The top shows a nurse with a baby who is in an iron lung - a large metal box. The baby's head is poking out from the box. On the bottom left is a child in a similar device and there is a mirror above so he can see his face. On the bottom right is a photo of dozens of children in iron lungs.

#antisepsis #lister #surgery #surgeon #histmed #medhist

Conditions in operating theatres prior to antisepsis were appalling. Most people were admitted in their ordinary clothes and surgeons operated in a suit and frock coat. This coat belonged to Joseph Lister and similar coats would be worn by a surgeon when operating.

Christina Hendriks