For #TriviaTuesday , we want your best guesses as to how this table might be significant in the history of anaesthesia!? 🤔 💭

#HistMed #MedTwitter Association of Anaesthetists

Beautiful coronal section of the thorax and abdomen from Johannes Sobotta's atlas of human anatomy, 1st published in 1904 #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

I visited the fascinating Oklahoma Frontier Drug Store Museum in Guthrie in April 2017 drugmuseum.org #histmed For lots of photos from that trip put in the Twitter search box: @ajwrightmls drugmuseum.org

Sir Frederick Banting Square in bloom. Always wonderful this time of year.
#BantingHouse #birthplaceofinsulin #thisplacematters #banting #T1D #T2D #insulin #diabetes #museums #cdnhistory #ldnmuse #histmed #LetsEndDiabetes

Nurse wearing uniform from Kenya circa. 1950s #histmed #histnurse #historyofmedicine #historyofnursing #pastmedicalhistory

A photo of Henrietta Lacks in the late 1940s. Henrietta's cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortal human cell line, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientific discoveries of the 20th century. #histmed #historyofmedicine

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922-2001) performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967 #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

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

For anyone interested in philosophy and medicine in medieval Islamic societies, I will be giving a talk at KCL on May 13th (one can attend virtually too): #histsci #sts #IslamicPhilosophy #medieval #MENAstorians #histmed tickettailor.com/events/sowerby…

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

Two sides to every story: Reappraising the early history of liver transplantation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

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'Mortality during the Great Plague', French miniature, after 1348 by the Maître du Polycratique de Charles V, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes - CNRS.
#plague #plague museum #epidemic #historyoftheplague #pandemic #histmed #middleages

#HistNursing #HistMed A little piece of history often overlooked of what it was like pre #NHS

Here's a fact to get us through Friday!
#DidYouKnow Michael Faraday was Humphry Davy’s assistant? Davy clearly had an influence, because in 1818 Faraday wrote that ether had anaesthetic qualities, just like Davy had discovered about nitrous oxide in 1799.
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Wonderful #histmed talk today by Michaela Clark about photographic space and the clinical gaze in Cape Town CHSTM

1939 Apr 30: The New York World's Fair opened & included an exhibit on anesthesia tinyurl.com/d2qy4ju & tinyurl.com/s7ysa #histmed #OTD

Hey #histmed , I'll have a limited number of Nursing Clio stickers to give out at #AAHM2024 ! Whatever it is that you do - radical scholarship, histories of women, gender, and sexuality, history of medicine, reproductive health, personal reflections, let's talk!

Physician & Surgeon General Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) was a Founding Father of the United States #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

It's #TriviaTuesday again! 🤔 💭 This week, we're asking if anyone knows what a fly whisk was used for and how it links to the history of medicine? 😄

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(New Book) A History of Hygiene in Modern France. The Threshold of Disgust histoiresante.blogspot.com/2024/04/une-hi… #histmed