Today's Find: “What If Thomas Beddoes & Humphry Davy Had Attempted Surgical Anesthesia in 1799?” tinyurl.com/yb8w3a9m #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: “A Doctor’s Story” 1984 TV film with Howard E. Rollins, Jr., & Art Carney. A young physician devotes more time to his career than his wife & family trying to prove an old man is not senile tinyurl.com/4x2tumen #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Alice McNeal, MD: Alabama's First Female Anesthesiologist" tinyurl.com/mp7a3ov #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #Alabama #Birminghamal #birminghamalabama

A Park Ranger's life hangs in the balance in this #Medical #suspense #novel. “Death Grip will keep you in #suspense until the last page!” mybook.to/Death-Grip #AwardWinning #KindleUnlimited #kindlebooks #IARTG #MedTwitter #BookTwitter #LiteraturePosts #WeekendReads

Doctor Sophie Herzog: The Gunfighter's Physician circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2025/09/25/doc… via @nlm_collections #histmed #medicalhistory

Spotlight: Rebecca Kyser, Medical Librarian & Artist graphicmedicine.org/spotlight-rebe… via @graphicmedicine

Today's Find: Early black physician in Birmingham, Alabama Dr. Arthur McKinnon Brown tinyurl.com/pzg8s43 Born Nov 9, 1867, died Dec 4, 1939 #histmed #medicalhistory #birminghamal #birminghamalabama #Alabama

Today’s Find: Newspaper ad for the 1942 film “Calling Dr. Gillespie” that appeared in the Gadsden [Alabama] Times 27 Sept 1942 tinyurl.com/yrkr7e65 #histmed #medicalhistory A "maniacal killer" is loose--in the hospital!

Today’s Find: 1925 novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian novelist Alexander Belyaev involves an assistant who keeps Dowell’s head alive & such as that tinyurl.com/565evfxu This translation published 2021 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel “The Marrow of Tradition” One of the main characters is a black physician who returns home to set up practice tinyurl.com/bdzxf94j Racial unrest is heightened by the murder of a white woman & a black servant is accused #histmed

Medical advertising is often thought of as a modern phenomenon, but today's techniques have been shaped by 200 years of medical marketing.

In our new exhibition, "Marketing Medicine: The Art of Selling a Cure," opening on October 11, we explore the co-evolution of medicine and advertising through the lens of medical trade ephemera. We look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition! loom.ly/qPt0rT0

Today's Find: Graefenberg Medical Institute in Dadeville tinyurl.com/4hs9wbks First operating medical school in Alabama Graduate Louisa Shepard was first female MD in the U.S. South. Closed by the Civil War #histmed

Today’s Find: This biography of American actor Edwin Forrest describes his encounter at a laughing gas demonstration as a 14 yo in San Francisco in 1820 tinyurl.com/yxlxvkzu & tinyurl.com/y5m9b64v The portrait of Forrest was taken by Mathew Brady #histmed

Today’s Find: “Born to Love” is a 1931 film starring Constance Bennett as an American nurse working in London during World War I tinyurl.com/3f69fhv4 #histmed #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #histnursing

Today’s Find: “Quarantined” is a TV film that first aired 24 Feb 1970 as the ABC “Movie of the Week” & is set in a clinic in the midst of a cholera epidemic tinyurl.com/s5hymg5 & tinyurl.com/vkmf7zd Gary Collins, John Dehner & Susan Howard were among the stars #histmed

Today’s Find: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's short story "Zerviah Hope" first published in “Scribner’s Monthly” Nov 1880 is about a heroic woman doctor attending victims of a yellow fever epidemic in the US tinyurl.com/r3ldqem & tinyurl.com/uead22n #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Clark Cable is an army surgeon! Lana Turner is an army nurse! In WW II! in this 1948 film “Homecoming” tinyurl.com/n469wc9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfilm