#HistMed #HistNursing #HistPublicHealth #HistSewage

One part of my #histPublicHealth collection focuses on dogs, and I have a fair number of rabies tags and certificates, and licenses, and I find them so evocative, as objects embodying human-animal relationships and pasts. This dog license is from 1931 in Ontario.

Teaching cholera in #histpublichealth tomorrow, and Im beginning with two bits of music: a modern folk version of Stephen Foster's 1854 Hard Times Come Again No More, and Fanny Mendelssohn’s Cholera Cantata, composed to honor victims of the cholera epidemic in Berlin of 1831.

The thing I don't really get about people of Robert K*nnedy Jr's generation overall is that they witnessed the polio and smallpox vaccination programs in action, and the power of vaccines. Just a truly remarkable series of moments in #histmed #histPublicHealth. And yet.

Found this card from the State of New Jersey Board of Health, c. 1899 tracing smallpox cases in Newark, but the curious thing is that I found this in an Indian seller's collections, all the way over in Bombay. Ephemerae can be so fascinating. #histmed #histPublicHealth

Recent #histmed #histPublicHealth acquisition: a nearly 100 year old Diphtheria Protection Certificate issued in Ohio, which also features the public health messaging: "No Child in Ohio Need Die of Diphtheria", issued by the State Director of Health.

Contrast this to the preaching tone of many ads, or the use of disability or sick bodies to provoke fear in the audience, this is just compelling, simple. #histmed #histPublicHealth Yul Brynner American Cancer Society anti-smoking PSA youtu.be/iikQoFpNBNg

I collect #histmed #histPublicHealth stamps, seals and ephemera, and sometimes the graphic design on these stamps is so beautiful.

One of my recent #histPublicHealth #histmed finds recently, is just so incredibly cool. A tuberculosis seal issued by the Spanish protectorate of Morocco, in 1951. Im really intrigued by (what I think is) the adaptation of the cross of Lorraine here, absolutely fascinating.

I love the graphic design on this: from a recent #histPublicHealth acquisition, a 1949 booklet issued by the John Hancock Insurance company "What You Can Do: About Tuberculosis" #histmed

"Athletes do not smoke: It's a matter of life and breath" A recent acquisition, a Christmas seal issued by the Quebec Christmas Seals Society, in 1971. This seal served as public health messaging, as well as likely raising funds. #histmed #DisHist #histPublicHealth

Expanding my collection of vaccination certificates, and trying to find more Canadian #histPublicHealth since I'm living here now and working University of Toronto Scarborough. And finally, today, found a century old certificate issued by the Department of Public Health, Toronto. #histmed #histSTM

One of my favourite little things in my #histVaccination #histPublicHealth collection is this little pin featuring Tom the cat, presumably for an pet vaccination program. #histmed #envhist

Recent acquisition: a 1924 seal issued by the Tuberculous Veterans' Association of Canada #histPublicHealth #hismed #DisHist

"Help Fight TB" Two new seals for my collection, mid-20th century seals issued as part of anti-tuberculosis programs, including the TB Association of India. The use of the double-barreled cross marks a TB Christmas seal. #histmed #histPublicHealth #DisHist

Made one of my most expensive but glorious purchases for my collection yet, a beautiful smallpox vaccination kit. Can't wait to put this front and center in the exhibit my University of Toronto Scarborough students are curating for their Health Histories class. #histmed #histSTM #histPublicHealth

"U. S. Army Hospital Number 30, Royat, France: Patients at moving picture show wearing masks because of an influenza epidemic, c. First World War." Source: National Library of Medicine #histmed #histPublicHealth

"The Crusade of the Double-Barred Cross" This US Christmas seal "bond" was given to contributors to tuberculosis associations as "proof" of the promise that the funds would go towards improving the conditions for TB patients. #histPublicHealth #histmed #ephemera

Reading for today's lectures on polio, disability, and history, and I'm somewhat depressed to realise that simply stating these facts in public today summons the absolutely rabid anti-v*xx crowd (cw: dated language on disability) #histPublicHealth #histmed

Im a teaching a #histPublicHealth course this semester, focusing on vaccination pasts, and one question I ask students is if they think that smallpox could be eradicated in 2023, had it not been eradicated in the 20thc. Increasingly, students are answering no.