#medhist

#histodons #histodon #twitter #histmed #medhist #histsci #plasticsurgery #books #bookstodon #booktoot

6 days ago

TOMORROW: I'll be doing a virtual event with the National WWI Museum at 1 pm CST (that's 7 pm for UK attendees). I'll be talking about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WWI, followed by Q&A. Event is FREE! Please register: https://www.theworldwar.org/events/facemaker-lindsey-fitzharris?fbclid=IwAR18GASogq8Me0YtANsUZM-CvldBHWU2w-MGgoMV9-tuv8WbJbyuql_yEqE

A model of a human head and torso, showing the various flaps and grafts that could be used to rebuild a face.

La Médecine dans l'Antiquité

2 weeks ago

📘PARUTION : viennent de paraître chez #AusoniusEditions ces beaux mélanges en l'honneur d'Yves Perrin, mon directeur de recherche en Master. Pour lui, j'ai repris là où nous en étions resté sur les interactions entre le pouvoir et le monde de la santé au Haut-Empire ! 🥰 #medhist

#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #medhist #histsci #instrument #scientific #science #medicine #doctors

Scarificator, late 17th century. This instrument with spring-loaded blades delivered many cuts simultaneously. Afterwards, the doctor placed a heated cup over the site. As it cooled, blood was forced out of the wounds.

Photo: University of Melbourne.

A blocky instrument with little slits at the bottom, out of which protrudes many blades.

#histmed #histsci #histodons #histodon #twitterexodus #twittermigration #medhist #DYK #bigpharma

“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.

Follow me for more medical history content!

A photo of the label for ONE NIGHT COUGH SYRUP, showcasing the list of toxic ingredients.

#histmed #histsci #WWI #warhistory #war #medhist #science #womeninstem #womenshistory #histodon #histodons #twittermigration #twitterexodus

During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

A black and white photo of a vehicle with no doors and an open top to hold equipment. On the side it says RADIOLOGIE, accompanied with a Red Cross.

Watercolor of a malignant growth springing from the eye of a woman, 19th century. The eye protruded for two months. In the righthand corner, you can see a monochrome sketch of the eyeball and tumour after its removal. [Image: Wellcome Collection] #histmed #histodons #histodon #history #medhist #histsci #illustration

#histodon #histodons #histmed #sciart #histsci #medhist #anatomy

2 months ago

This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (c.1787) is now housed at the Javier Puerta Museum. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. It demonstrates the merging of art and science.

A wax torso that is dissected at the front to reveal twins inside the uterus.

#twitterstorians #twittermigration #histodons #histmed #histodon #medhist #dentalhistory #dentist

2 months ago

Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to be on Twitter (X) these days.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.

3 months ago

Male skeleton showing wear pattern to teeth resulting from long-term pipe smoking, c.1660. It was excavated from the Patuxent Point site, Calvert County, MD. All of the skeletons uncovered (men, women, and children) showed signs of smoking. #histodons #histodon #skull #histmed #medhist #smoking #skeleton #histsci #archaeology #archaeologist

Close-up of a skull's jaw showing teeth and a round hole worn between them.

#histodons #histodon #histmed #medhist #medical #history #DYK

3 months ago

This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.

A frieze showing Death as a skeleton on the left, and Medicine as a man on the right holding Death back. The man, representing Medicine, is holding a caduceus, the symbol of commerce.

#histsci #histmed #medhist #sciart #art #oldphoto #medhistorian #surgery #histodon #histodons

This is a photo of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri at the turn of the 20th century. The walls were painted by a surgeon who wanted to give patients something to look at while they waited for their anesthesia. A beautiful merging of art and medicine.

A photo showing 5 doctors and nurses dressed in white, wearing masks, and standing over a patient, who is lying on a table. The patient is covered with a white blanket. The walls of the operating theatre have colorful drawings all over them.

#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #histsci #medhist #medhistorian #twitterstorians #twittermigration #twitter #TIL #writer #writing #nonfiction

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. Learn more in my book THE FACEMAKER: https://linktr.ee/drlindseyfitzharris

A blue-grey box with a Red Cross on it, which reads: "BLOOD TRANSFUSION SET."

#books #histodon #histodons #history #WW1 #WarHistory #plasticsurgery #war #author #writing #twitterstorians #historian #medhist #histmed

THE FACEMAKER is out today in paperback! 🇬🇧

It tells the poignant true story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of WWI's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

I'd be grateful for your support: https://amzn.to/442MiS5

The UK cover of THE FACEMAKER featuring a World War I Tommy. His face is made of many faces.

Should Be Writing

#histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #Archäologie #archaeodons #archaeology #Altertumswissenschaften #AncientHistory #antiquity #antike #MiddleEast #medhist

People in 7th Century BCE #Jerusalem suffered from widespread dysentery, study finds

Study results indicate "long-term presence" of #Giardia parasite in Near East populations.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/soil-samples-from-iron-age-toilets-show-dysentery-was-widespread-in-jerusalem/

Square stone with a hole in the center lying on the ground.

Should Be Writing

5 months ago

1st-century burial holds Roman doctor buried with medical tools, including 'top-quality' scalpels

Cw human remains
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1st-century-burial-holds-roman-doctor-buried-with-medical-tools-including-top-quality-scalpels

#histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #Archäologie #archaeodons #archaeology #medicine #medhist #ancienthistory #antiquity #antike #RomanArchaelogy

@histodons @archaeodons
@antiquidons

A human skull on a dirt-like display surface.

FagAshLilith

5 months ago

Thanks to a friend for introducing me to this fascinating effigy of Sarah Hare who died of septicaemia and is displayed in a Norfolk Church.
Am trying to find out who sculpted her as she looks like one of Joseph Towne's wax moulages, but I'm not sure.

Any ideas?

#histodons #histmed #medhist #anatomy
https://janeaustensworld.com/2011/09/12/the-strange-wax-effigy-of-sarah-hare-18th-century-spinster/

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

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

7 months ago

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

7 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

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

"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.

IHC

#histodons #Colonialism #Africa #Drought #Hunger #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvHist #ColonialHistory #MedHist

A Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal acolhe, esta semana, o simpósio internacional "Seca, Fome e Colonialismo Português em África. História e Memória (séculos XIX-XXI)" — sobre os contextos, as causas e as consequências sociais, económicas e ecológicas da seca e da fome na antiga África colonial portuguesa.

ℹ https://bit.ly/3vPTMrO

Cartaz do simpósio "Seca, Fome e Colonialismo Português em África – História e Memória (séculos XIX-XXI)". 2 e 3 de Fevereiro de 2023 na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal e online. Inscrições em bit.ly/seca2023

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

Winston Black

#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

Winston Black

@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).

Winston Black

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

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.

#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.