Illustration of the Cannabis Sativa plant from the 6th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript, Vienna Dioscurides, c. 512 CE #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Auguste Deter in 1902 - the first patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease #histmed #Alzheimers #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

German psychiatrist Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer first described 'presenile dementia' in 1906 #histmed #historyofmedicine #historyofpsychiatry #pastmedicalhistory

Cocaine Toothache Drops - Instantaneous Cure! Circa 1885 #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

A photo portrait of the Bedonkohe Apache leader and medicine man, Geronimo. Taken in 1898 by Frank A Rinehart. #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

U.S. Public Health cancer awareness poster circa. 1950 #histmed #publichealth #beatcancer #pastmedicalhistory #historyofmedicine

Phrenology chart from the late 1800s #phrenology #histmed #hostoryofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

38 years ago a woman in Coventry sent a letter to some scientists. That letter went on to be the most important in Alzheimer's research. Last year, I met Carol Jennings, who wrote it. 1/

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Beautiful sagittal section of the head showing the brain and cerebellum by Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) #anatomy

Prof. Sambhu Nath De (1915 – 1985), who discovered the cholera toxin and successfully demonstrated the transmission of the cholera pathogen. #histmed #historyofmedicine #microbiology #pastmedicalhistory

William T.G. Morton (1819-1868) - the American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anaesthetic in 1846. The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anaesthesia became a life long obsession for him. #histmed

American Civil War solider with gangrenous wound of the elbow. #histmed #history #militarymedicine #history ofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu were the first two female doctors to qualify in India #histmed #WomenInMedicine #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

The frog test - injecting the urine of a pregnant woman into the African clawed frog causes an ovulation response. From the 1940s to 1960s, tens of thousands of frogs were injected with human urine and used as pregnancy tests in this way.

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A portrait of Rudolf Virchow, painted by the artist Hugo Vogel in 1861. Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Book plate from 1920s showing the 'proportions of a healthy child' #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) - anatomist, physician, and author of the influential 'De humani corporis fabric' #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory

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