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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. "Maple Leaf"

Today's Vintage Book Cover: First published 1964, this edition 1968. Rachel Cosgrove [ 11 Dec 1922-10 Oct 1998] also wrote fantasy & romances tinyurl.com/9ru4w4c4 & tinyurl.com/mw735x28 & tinyurl.com/95wendzm #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

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Today's Find: This issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" is dated Oct 10, 1914. The long-running American magazine began publication as a weekly in 1897; it currently appears six times a year #histmed #histnursing tinyurl.com/s5dmrysc #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

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Today’s Find: Physician Ernest M. Poate [10 Oct 1884-1 Feb 1935] wrote novels & stories featuring two detectives, a psychiatrist & the other a NY pathologist. Beginning in 1931 he held the new chair in neuropsychiatry at Duke Univ tinyurl.com/bwnw3x7u #histmed #medicalfiction #medicalhistory

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Today’s Find: Malcom Hadden Smith was an American artist who lived in Huntsville #Alabama from 1959 until his death 11 June 1966 tinyurl.com/qv6yagk Worked for NASA, designed covers for many science fiction & other magazines. This cover is Feb 1948

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Today’s Find: A.J. Wright, “Humphry Davy’s Small Circle of Bristol Friends” in the “Middle East J Anesthesiology” 13(3):233-279, 1995 tinyurl.com/knnc7mnv #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #humphrydavy #thomasbeddoes

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Today's Patent Medicine Card: Phenyo-Caffein Company operated late 19th-early 20th centuries tinyurl.com/26425y4t #histmed #medicalhistory

1883 Oct 9: Ralph M. Waters was born. With his work at the Univ of Wisconsin he became known as the "Father" of academic anesthesia in the U.S. tinyurl.com/bjgl9de He died 19 Dec 1979 tinyurl.com/27nh4pt2 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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Today's Find: Newspaper article 9 Oct 1887 "Burglars & Chloroform" tinyurl.com/wzqxl8d "Burglars Do Not Use It" #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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Today’s Find: One of my articles, “Wanted Dead or Alive: Alabama’s Outlaw Heritage” tinyurl.com/3e2pnaj7 Published in 1981 in “Alabama Living” magazine #Alabama

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Today’s Find: I’ve done a couple of blog posts on my collection of bookmarks from #Alabama bookstores tinyurl.com/unz5bnx & tinyurl.com/tc3sx24 Jonathan Benton operated from 1992 until 2009 in two different places in the Birmingham area tinyurl.com/uxqg2r9

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Today's Vintage Book Cover: Arlene Hale [1924-1982] wrote more than 100 novels, many medical tinyurl.com/bdh2c6m5 This title published 1975 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

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Today’s Find: Ad for Drs. Dozier & Dozier Medico-Surgical & Electro-Therapeutic Institute at 117 & ½ 21st St in Birmingham #Alabama Bham Age-Herald 8 Oct 1907 tinyurl.com/y7ukh6kk #histmed #medicalhistory

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Today's Find: Cliffbourne Hospital in Washington, DC, during the Civil War tinyurl.com/y74syzkz Drawn by cartoonist Clifford Berryman for a Washington Post article published 8 Oct 1902 #histmed #medicalhistory

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Today’s Find: “Gunsmoke” episode “Home Surgery” on radio 13 Sept 1952 & TV 8 Oct 1955. Rancher has gangrenous leg & Marshall Dillon has to amputate. Surgery not shown, just preop prep—boiling water, bandages, horse tail hair to tie off arteries & liquor consumption. Patient dies #medicaltv #histmed

Today’s Find: “Empty Nest” American TV comedy centered on pediatrician Harry Weston in Miami that ran for seven seasons on NBC from Oct 8, 1988, to April 29, 1995. First 5 seasons featured his work in a hospital & his Southern nurse Luverne tinyurl.com/45wy9nwe #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

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Today’s Find: #Alabama Suffrage Bulletin Oct 1915-Mar 1917 [PDFs] t.co/ElMjif5WjL In 1920 Tenn. was 36th state to ratify U.S. constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. Alabama not one of those states, despite strong local effort t.co/DfmfeJR15A

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Today’s Find: 7 Oct 1913 newspaper item “Artificial Breathing” tinyurl.com/ycwx5fyz “Continuous insufflation of air into the lungs” via windpipe tube #histmed #medicalhistory

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Today's Find: Item from the New York Morning Herald 7 Oct 1837 about animal magnetism activity in NYC tinyurl.com/ybwpkptz #histmed #medicalhistory

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1869 Apr 8: Neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing born. In 1895 he & E. A. Codman developed an anesthetic record at Massachusetts General Hospital tinyurl.com/3anrkxxv Cushing died 7 Oct 1935 #histmed #medicalhistory #anaesthesiahistory

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1894 Oct 7: Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes died. In a Nov 1846 letter to William Morton he suggested the word "anaesthesia" for the effect of ether inhalation for surgery bit.ly/1086ZeF & tinyurl.com/ybk9u5v4 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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Today’s Find: My son Amos’ third book is now available, “The Battle of Danziger Bridge” a collection of interlocking stories published by Livingston Press tinyurl.com/yp5xbfmy & www.amosjasperwright.com & tinyurl.com/yysbnxud #amosjasperwrightiv #literaryfiction

Today’s Find: Two #Alabama authors have stories in this Aug 1951 issue of “10 Story Magazine”: Tom Roan’s “Wagons to Nowhere” & one by William Vance tinyurl.com/yatemmpp & tinyurl.com/y9vpthpj

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Today’s Find: One of my articles, “See You in the Funny Papers: Anesthesia in Cartoons & Comics” Int Cong Series, 2002, pp 547-551 tinyurl.com/48dcm7bh #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #medicalcartoons #medicalcomics

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Today's Find: Newspaper article reprinted from the Richmond Whig 6 Oct 1842 on "Animal Magnetism" tinyurl.com/yb8jtfc2 #histmed #medicalhistory

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2006 Oct 6: Expert in pediatric anesthesia etc C. Ronald Stephen died tinyurl.com/pfaokvt Also prominent in the anesthesia history community & certainly a mentor to me on that subject #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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Today's Find: 6 Oct 1916 newspaper item; patient "Talks During Operation" on his brain tinyurl.com/ybu9lv3u #histmed #medicalhistory

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Today’s Find: Birmingham, Alabama native Louise Fletcher in the Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Larcenous Lady” first broadcast 17 Dec 1960. With her is Edward Platt tinyurl.com/y8aw7njs #Alabama

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Today’s Find: My son Amos Jasper Wright IV is on the program at Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge Oct 31 with his latest work of fiction “The Battle of Danziger Bridge” tinyurl.com/48439w46 #amosjasperwrightIV #lousianabookfestival #literaryfiction

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Today's Vintage Book Cover: Roy Sparkia [31 Oct 1924-6 Nov 1992] was a visual artist & author who wrote several medical novels; this one published in 1961 tinyurl.com/4hrv9cd7 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

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Today's Comic: "Nellie the Nurse" a Marvel title that first ran 1945-Oct 1952 tinyurl.com/yb76r52d This one is #6 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalcomic

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Today’s Medical Barbie: Dr. Barbie, Dr. Ken & Nurse Whitney, from 1987 tinyurl.com/vcsazc7y #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

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Today’s Find: Book by Gregory Chapman, MD, UAB cardiologist, “A Strong & Steady Pulse: Stories from a Cardiologist” tinyurl.com/5b3bfz5z Don Noble’s review: tinyurl.com/yc4rp6yr #histmed #BirminghamAlabama #Alabama #medicalhistory

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Today’s Find: “Drunken Angel” Excellent 1948 film by Akira Kurosawa in which an alcoholic doctor treats a yakuza gangster with tuberculosis #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm tinyurl.com/4xxvtpvu Eddie Muller recently screened this title on his “Noir Alley” on TCM

Today’s Find: “Rx” a novel by Garin Cycholl. When his father dies a man takes over his name & medical practice in a new town in a politically unstable America tinyurl.com/mr44bdvp #histmed #medicalfiction #medicalhistory

1931 Oct 4: "Dick Tracy" comic strip launches tinyurl.com/834joas Various story lines over the years feature medical themes/scenes. Here the criminal Karpse has a problem with ether in a 1938 story tinyurl.com/y3uxyfqq #histmed #medicalhistory

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