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Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Evening Star" one of several quilt patterns she created

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 11h

Today’s Find: “Every Woman her Own Midwife, Or a compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women” published in 1675 tinyurl.com/yxjjyja9 #medicalhistory #histmed

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 11h

1752 June 13: English novelist Frances Burney born. On Sept 30, 1811, Burney underwent a mastectomy for suspected breast cancer; she refused drugs & alcohol. In 1812, Burney wrote a letter abt her experience of surgery w/out anesthesia tinyurl.com/zqquny9 #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 15h

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Allan Cemetery in Northern Shelby County" tinyurl.com/ydxjwec9 #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s Find: Dr. Mark Piper [Paul Fix] was the first physician aboard the USS Enterprise in "Star Trek:The Original Series" when the TV show premiered in 1966. He was soon replaced by Leonard McCoy [DeForest Kelley] tinyurl.com/4yuvzhnt #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s Find: “The Indian Doctor” a British medical comedy that ran for 15 episodes in 2010-2013. The titular character begins practice in a mining village in south Wales in the 1960’s tinyurl.com/2yuexw9d #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1927 Sept 29: Dutch physician & Inventor of the first practical ECG/EKG Willem Einthoven died tinyurl.com/md24rah Won a Nobel Prize in 1924. Born 21 May 1860 #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Jack and Jill" Sept 1966. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_an... Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription at tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Treetop Melody" one of several Franklin Mint plates w/her art

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s Vintage Book Cover: Margaret E. Sangster [1894-1981] was a prolific author of short stories, novels and radio scripts; this title is her only medical novel tinyurl.com/4rafbcfy #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's Photo: Patients at the Soboba Indian Hospital in California ca. 1940 tinyurl.com/yaunguzy #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's Find: 28 Sept 1887 reprint of newspaper article "The Chloroform Myth" and its supposed use by robbers tinyurl.com/y9arqhc2 #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Sketch for a House"; Prince Royal was an art gallery in Virginia

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “University of Alabama Takes Over Jefferson Hospitals” tinyurl.com/4cvyz82m #Alabama #BirminghamAlabama #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Dogwood Duet" one of several Franklin Mint plates w/her art

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's Vintage Book Cover: This novel by William Johnston was a tie-in to "The Nurses" TV series broadcast in the U.S. Sept 27, 1962, to May 11, 1965 tinyurl.com/y724zr59 Johnston was a prolific author tinyurl.com/mrxz2mah #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's Find: "Marcus Welby, MD", was a very popular U.S. TV show that ran from 1969-1976 tinyurl.com/ydeldr7w Robert Young played the kindly family doctor. This Sept 27, 1969 issue was the first of several featuring the show on the cover #medicalhistory #medicaltv

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1792 Sept 27: The fabulous British illustrator & caricaturist George Cruikshank was born. He died 1 Feb 1878. One of his medical works is "Headache" tinyurl.com/d39rhoz #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "#Birmingham Photo of the Day (63): Quinlan Castle" tinyurl.com/y874ktvx Demolished in 2022 #Alabama #BirminghamAlabama #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] now available on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Anne's Collection" ornament & pillow

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today's Find: "Carol's Second Act" is a US TV medical comedy about a woman who has raised 2 children, retires from teaching, goes to medical school & is beginning her internship tinyurl.com/yy9caskl Premiered on CBS Sept 26, 2019; cancelled May 2020 #medicalhistory #medicaltv

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1888 Sept 26: Poet T.S. Eliot was born "Like a patient etherized upon a table" said his character Prufrock tinyurl.com/6p8hb Eliot died 4 Jan 1965 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1926 Sept 26: Singer & actress Julie London was born. Among other film/TV roles she starred in "Emergency!" a popular US TV show in the 1970's tinyurl.com/ap5hugo Died 18 Oct 2000 tinyurl.com/y6f3b53t #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1818 Sept 26: English physician James Blundell attempted the first human-to-human blood transfusion tinyurl.com/lglnmzy The patient, a man named Brazier, died three days later #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today’s Find: Review at the Alabama Writers Forum by Edward Journey of “The Battle of Danziger Bridge” the new book by #amosjasperwrightiv tinyurl.com/bduu779k See also www.amosjasperwright.com #literaryfiction #southernfiction #indiefiction

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's Photo: Babies & hospital staff at the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indian Agency, North Dakota, ca. 1945 tinyurl.com/yy98bqju #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1881 Oct 15: English author P.G. Wodehouse born. His novel “Laughing Gas” involves inhalation hijinks in a dental office bit.ly/1wXROzw #OTD He died 14 Feb 1975. Cover shown is first UK edition published 25 Sept 1936 #dentalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's Vintage Book Cover: This Sharon Heath [there is another author by that name] published several nurse romances tinyurl.com/mwksmztk This title published in 1967 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post on "Pelham in the 1880s" t.co/O2ua16fNav #Alabama #PelhamAlabama #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Alabama Photos of the Day: The 1969 Sesquicentennial" tinyurl.com/ybeokf69 #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's Find: Newspaper article 24 Sept 1894 "Uses for Chloroform: Some Interesting Suggestions Advanced by Professor Wilder of Cornell" tinyurl.com/tqx3jan #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's Find: Item in the NY Journal 24 Sept 1896 "Morphine Killed Wachs" tinyurl.com/y8lse9u9 Wife states the drug was his only relief from heart failure #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's Find: Item in the NY Journal 24 Sept 1896 "Takes Nips of Chloroform" tinyurl.com/y8lse9u9 Emily Nevins "a chloroform fiend" arrested a fourth time #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today’s Find: After his successful “Ben Casey” Vince Edwards starred in another medical TV series, “Matt Lincoln” as a psychiatrist who started a telephone hotline for troubled teens tinyurl.com/yc8ckkyn The show ran for 16 episodes 24 Sept 1970-14 Jan 1971 #histmed #medicaltv #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's Find: "A selected list of books on military medicine and surgery: Sept 24, 1917" tinyurl.com/hn29zek #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's Find: Here's an issue in PDF format of the Birmingham Arts Journal from 2013 t.co/DXsa1PXJ8N My poem “at night” is on page 28 #BirminghamAlabama #Alabama

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's Find: 1888 12 June long newspaper item "Indian Arrow Poison" tinyurl.com/y7a8zkgw The exotic curare #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory The "flying death" in the O.R.: tinyurl.com/3xc6vurc

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1939 Sept 23: Sigmund Freud died. Did extensive research w/Karl Koller on cocaine #histmed #OTD tinyurl.com/4fv9yauj Did some other stuff too tinyurl.com/ye22xk6k #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's Find: 1966 article "Halsted's Low Surgical Mortality Was the Envy of Surgeons Across the Globe" tinyurl.com/y7wfzvl3 Wm Halsted born 23 Sept 1852, died 7 Sept 1922 #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Harris Transfer & Warehouse Company" tinyurl.com/yc3lw3bh #BirminghamAlabama #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today’s Find: “Janet Dean, Registered Nurse” starring Ella Raines began airing in syndication in March 1954 for 39 episodes. First U.S. TV series to focus on nursing tinyurl.com/2p9hybct Closing credits for “The Putnam Case” at tinyurl.com/3a5sbk8a #histmed #histnursing

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1876 Aug 12: Author Mary Roberts Rinehart born tinyurl.com/y7cffgkq Despite title this 1919 collection focuses on nursing practice. Rinehart trained as a nurse & married a doctor. Most famous for her mysteries Died 22 Sept 1958 tinyurl.com/y9ocmb4p #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1885 Sept 22: Film director, actor, producer Eric von Stroheim born tinyurl.com/yyefwwep Best known film probably "Greed" [1924] based on a Frank Norris novel. Follows the life & love of dentist McTeague in San Francisco tinyurl.com/yybpmwjn #histdentistry #dentalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1791 Sept 22: English scientist Michael Faraday was born. His 1818 essay compared the effects of ether & nitrous oxide. He was working with Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution at the time. Died 25 Aug 1867 tinyurl.com/yp6fj4z3 #histmed #medicalhistory

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AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Jack and Jill" Sept 1960. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_an... Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription at tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine

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