A 24-year-old man from Norway, infected with leprosy, 1886 #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

A girl with artificial legs circa. 1880 #prosthesis #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Dr. Murrison operating in 4th floor theatre at King George Military Hospital, 1915 #histmed #histsurg #historyofmedicine #historyofsurgery #pastmedicalhistory

The posteroinferior anatomy of the liver from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter #histmed #anatomy #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

WWI recruitment poster - nurses urgently needed #histmed #historyofmedicine #WWI #pastmedicalhistory

Join us next month as Meredith Carroll heads to the #AAHM in Kansas City!

Interested in meeting with Meredith during the conference? Feel free to reach out with any inquiries about modern history, medicine, or commissioning at MUP.

#HistoryCommissioning #HistoryofMedicine

Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic. December 1918. #historyofmedicine #histmed #pandemic #spanishflu #pastmedicalhistory

The National Library of Medicine's Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health traveling exhibit is on display at RLMLthrough April 28th.

Read more at: zurl.co/TySC
Exhibit's website: zurl.co/Jlvg

#RLML #IUmedschool #HistoryofMedicine

An NLM traveling exhibit telling the history of the care and treatment of individuals with mental illness at Indiana’s Central State Hospital will be on display in RLML until the end of April.
Read more @ zurl.co/noDD

#RLML #NLM #HistoryofMedicine
#IUmedschool

Volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California, during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
#histmed #historyofmedicine #pandemic #flu #pastmedicalhistory

Jean Astruc (1684-1766, in Paris) the French professor of medicine who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases. He also became famous for his critical textual analysis of works of the Bible. #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921) the famous German neurologist whose name is associated with many eponyms still in use today #histmed #historyofmedicine #neurology #pastmedicalhistory

Publishing today...
Myth and (mis)information, Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century #EnglishLiterature and culture - Edited by Allan Ingram, Helen Williams and Clark Lawlor

Find out more here 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526166821/…

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Happy to join my colleagues across Oklahoma to discuss history of opioid use and ways to ensure we deliver #PatientCenteredCare . #ProperPrescribing #Opioid #CME #HistoryOfMedicine
OSU Center for Health Sciences

While Europe was certainly affected by the Spanish flu, the pandemic’s impact was felt worldwide, with millions of deaths occurring across continents, including in Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond.
#pandemic #europe #historyofmedicine

Unexpected Discoveries: How Penicillin Changed Medicine Forever
#PenicillinDiscovery #MedicalBreakthroughs #AccidentalDiscoveries #HistoryOfMedicine #InnovativeScience #AlexanderFleming #AntibioticRevolution #MedicalAdvancements #BacterialInfections #ScienceBehindMedicine

This week's History of Medicine Book of the Week is Santiago Ramon y Cajal's Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System (1913) reviewed by Mikaela Messer.
Read the review at: zurl.co/CQh3

#RLML #IUmedschool #historyofmedicine

Last week's History of Medicine Book of the Week was George Edmund de Schweinitz 's The Toxic Amblyopias: Their Classification, History, Symptoms, Pathology, and Treatment. Check out the review by Mikaela Messer at zurl.co/QAbB

#RLML #IUmedschool #historyofmedicine

Justin Rivest's April 5th John Shaw Billings History of Medicine talk: 'An Origin Story for 'Big Pharma' in the Reign of Louis XIV? An Early Modern History for the Present' is now available! Watch online at zurl.co/W7s2.

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#JSB #historyofmedicine