Today’s Find: Edwin Slosson’s article “A New Path to Oblivion” [i.e., ethylene] Scientific Monthly Sept 1923 tinyurl.com/yyrmpofj #histmed

Today's Find: Manuscript by RJ Defalque et al "Chloroform Today: Modern Afterlife of an Early General Anesthetic" bit.ly/1iBTFFr #histmed

Today's Find: First certified, practicing female physician in #Alabama tinyurl.com/ph4ykgv Halle T. Dillon at #Tuskegee Institute in 1890s #histmed

1709 Sept 18: English poet, playwright, lexicographer, etc Samuel Johnson was born. His great dictionary was published in April 1755 & did not include "anaesthesia" although earlier dictionaries did tinyurl.com/qd48z4j & tinyurl.com/ng9ypeh #histmed #OTD

Today's Find: "Doogie Howser, MD" was a US medical TV show about a teenage doctor that ran on the ABC network from Sept 19, 1989 to Mar 24, 1993 tinyurl.com/melft7j This 16 Dec 1989 issue also contains an article about how unrealistic the show was #histmed #OTD

Today’s Find: “The Shepard Matter” 5 eps of radio show “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar” first broadcast beginning 16 April 1956 tinyurl.com/k4pd2rks & tinyurl.com/wac5y3uv Single physician wants a suspiciously large amount of life insurance & Dollar must investigate #histmed

Today’s Find: “Diagnosis: Unknown” was a U.S. medical TV drama that ran July 5 until Sept 20, 1960 as a summer replacement series. Starred Patrick O’Neal as a city hospital pathologist tinyurl.com/y35d89p6 #histmed

Today’s Find: Ad for the Solomon Drug Co. in #Eutaw from the #Alabama Citizen newspaper 18 Sept 1948 tinyurl.com/yc8scusb #histmed

1885 Sept 27: Newspaper item "Curiosities of Local Anaesthesia" About two items in the Sept 19 issue of the "New York Medical Journal" #histmed #OTD

Today’s Find: The TV series “Resident Alien”. Said alien lands on earth with a mission to destroy humanity & kills a pathologist vacationing in Colorado so he can take over his identity. Complications ensue tinyurl.com/2xyzv8k2 #histmed

1854 Sept 20: Crimean War began with the Battle of Alma. First conflict in which anesthetics were used extensively; ether had been used briefly in the U.S.-Mexican War tinyurl.com/n88p5kv #histmed #OTD

Today’s Find: Physician & science fiction author David H. Keller’s story “The Feminine Metamorphosis” appeared in the Aug 1929 issue of “Science Wonder Stories” tinyurl.com/4vrdwett #histmed

Today’s Find: Rebecca Crumpler’s 1883 “A Book of Medical Discourses” tinyurl.com/89rv5vr4 First African-American female MD & this book an early medical publication by an African-American tinyurl.com/yhrnmkjd b. 8 Feb 1831, d. 9 March 1895 #histmed

Today’s Find: Stephen Hales’ 1743 “A Description of Ventilators” tinyurl.com/yaf26ga2 & tinyurl.com/y7tecjcw #histmed Hales’ large ventilators were widely used in ships, prisons, mines & helped prevent disease, dry rot, etc. Also used in food preservation #histmed

Today’s Find: “Four Girls in White” a 1939 mostly comic film about student nurses in a three-year training course at a large urban hospital tinyurl.com/2p92es4a #histmed #histnursing

Today’s Find: Emil H. Grubbe [1 Jan 1875-26 March 1960] , a physician & pioneer in the use of x-rays in cancer treatment tinyurl.com/3ecfxrnh This Associated Press story appeared in the Gadsden [Alabama] Times 17 July 1959 #histmed

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Adelaide Humphries' 1956 medical romance, "New England Nurse". One of the pseudonyms of Adelaide Morris Rowe [1898-1979] who wrote numerous titles in the genre tinyurl.com/5fva6u78 #histmed #histnursing

Dr. Marcus Wheatland was born in Barbados in 1868 & earned his M.D. from Howard University in 1895. He established his medical practice in Newport, RI, where he introduced the 1st X-ray machine, a new device of which he was a renowned expert.

Dr. Mary Fitzbutler (b. 1869) was the daughter of Dr. Henry Firtzbutler, a man who’d fled enslavement in Virginia before earning his MD from the University of Michigan. Mary’s mother, Sarah, was the first Black woman to obtain a medical degree in Kentucky.

Today’s Find: 1949 film “Lost Boundaries” based on the life of Albert Johnson, a light-skinned black physician who passed for white in New England in the 1930’s & 1940’s tinyurl.com/ufljpez #histmed