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History of Medicine Library re-opening! blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/hist…
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the library will not be open today. We are closed next week 13-17 March inclusive, but back with you Monday 20th March.
The Royal College of Physicians – Part I (Wiley Digital Archives) blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/hist…
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11 Jan 1922 - Insulin is first used to treat diabetes when Leonard Thompson, a 14 year old boy in hospital in Toronto, is injected. Over the next 12 days, James Bertram Collip, one of the biochemists who isolated insulin, perfects the dosage. #OTD #History #Insulin
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We've been so ridiculously sick all week in this house, that I began to wonder whether convalescent homes by the sea were still a thing. I stumbled on @lizzieenfield's Wellcome post here. A lost art indeed.
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Jethro Gough, pathology professor, was born at Mountain Ash #onthisday 1903. Gough discovered that coal dust caused pneumoconiosis in coal miners, and his research was the basis of coal workmen's compensation legislation biography.wales/article/s8-G… #WelshHistory #Wales
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#OTD in 1846, dentist James Robinson administered ether to 13 y/o Miss Lonsdale for a tooth extraction. The first person to be anaesthetised with ether in Britain 'had not felt the slightest pain, but had been dreaming of the country' during her operation!😇 #histmed #MedTwitter
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I've submitted the final revisions of my In/Disciplines #MedicalHumanities #DisabilityStudies book for @BloomsburyAcad. Really pleased with it and looking forward to it moving through production. I love the look of the cover we've chosen as well - scholarly green...
ALT Book cover for Stuart Murray's forthcoming book. Medical Humanities and Disability Studies are printed in white on a dark green background. In/Disciplines is underneath this, in lighter green type on the same background.
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St John Ambulance is known worldwide and has published first aid manuals in many different languages. This example is a 1949 first edition of a Home Nursing textbook published in Urdu.
@explorearchives @stjohnambulance #StJohnArchive #ExploreYourArchive #EYALanguages
ALT The cover of a small text book with the title ‘Home Nursing in Urdu’ printed in English and Urdu, accompanied by a logo for the St John Ambulance Association.
ALT The inside cover of the same Home Nursing text book, naming Shri L. C, Bhatia as the translator, and New Delhi as the location of the publication.
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Please help me do my job. Has anyone come across any literature on the history of Children's hospitals? Other than institutional histories of individual hospitals? Ideally in the UK, but not necessarily #NHSHistory #HistMed
December Opening Hours and Christmas Closure blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/hist…
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Life hack: always put the serpent into a barrel of wine to purify before you use it to treat your leprosy
ALT Text excerpt from 1700s medical text which reads 'Lepra, Leprosy. Put a serpent into a barrel of the best wine well stopt, until the serpent putrify, and then cause the leprous person drink of that wine'.
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It’s history of medicine week on the website! From the first general anaesthetic to early caesareans and the use of medicinal leeches, discover everything you wanted to know about medicine through time…
historyextra.com/topic/medic…
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This sounds perfect for anyone interested in #womenhist and #medhist: online launch of a special edition of 'Women's Writing' on Health and Illness:
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Day 15 of #museum30 is #page 📃
Here is the first page from our first smallpox vaccinaton register c.1801. John Falconer was the first patient at only 4 months old.
The register is part of @ScotsArchives #TwentyTreasures as part of their 20th anniversary 😊
#heritage #glasgow
