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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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Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Birmingham Photo of the Day (64): Medical Alumni Building" tinyurl.com/y9668jsb #Alabama #BirminghamAlabama #alabamayesterdays #histmed #medicalhistory

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Today’s Find: 3 Oct 1921 newspaper item “Writer Prepared to Undergo & Write of Gland Operation” under local anesthesia tinyurl.com/ybko9o4n #histmed #medicalhistory

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Today’s Find: Wikipedia has a nice list of fictional medical examiners at tinyurl.com/5b499bv4 Jack Klugman played Quincy in the NBC US TV series broadcast from 3 Oct 1976 until 11 May 1983 tinyurl.com/yk6rkjkk #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

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Today’s Find: 3 Oct 1885 newspaper article on “Ancient Anaesthetics” tinyurl.com/ybnh2mxg #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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Todays’ Find: Linda Caldwell’s 2020 biography of John Gorrie (3 Oct 1803 – 29 June 1855), “He Made Ice & Changed the World”, a U.S. physician who developed mechanical cooling in an effort to help his malaria & yellow fever patients tinyurl.com/3rt3c4j4 #histmed #medicalhistory

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Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "My Grandmother & the Progressive Farmer" tinyurl.com/y8qhon9c #GadsdenAlabama #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

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Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Alabama Photos of the Day: Carol Highsmith's Motel" tinyurl.com/ya5kysu5 #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

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Today’s Find: Anna May Wong in “King of Chinatown” She plays a physician in this 1939 crime film tinyurl.com/485f6bx8 & tinyurl.com/yc7bdkpz #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm

Today’s Find: “Scrubs” a U.S. medical TV series originally ran 2 Oct 2001-17 March 2010. The comedy-drama focused on physicians & nurses at a teaching hospital tinyurl.com/4d6wbusb #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv

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Today’s Find: “Dr. Ken” an American comedy medical TV series that ran on ABC 2 Oct 2015 to 31 March 2017. Created by Ken Jeong, a physician who became a standup comedian tinyurl.com/v3kt8u8 & tinyurl.com/akxdbshc #histmed #medicaltv #medicalhistory

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1961 Oct 2: Popular American TV medical drama "Ben Casey" premiered on ABC; the show ran until 1966 tinyurl.com/pjbc4q8 Vince Edwards starred as the young, intense--and of course handsome--neurosurgeon #medicalhistory #medicaltv #histmed

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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. "Flower Basket" one of several quilt patterns she created

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Today’s Find: Alabama Nursery Co., Huntsville Fall 1904 catalog t.co/SQluHpO8L9 #HuntsvilleAlabama #Alabama

Todays’ Find: “This Woman is Dangerous” 1952 crime film with Joan Crawford & Dennis Morgan. She plays a gangster’s moll who needs risky eye surgery; he’s the surgeon. Sparks fly #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm tinyurl.com/4u63pyzn

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1964 Oct 1: Baseball greats Don Drysdale, Leo Durocher & Willie Mays appeared in "The Donna Reed Show" episode "Play Ball" as volunteer orderlies at the hospital where husband Alex is a pediatrician & to play in a charity game tinyurl.com/y248wtyp #histmed

1893 Oct 1: Author Faith Baldwin born tinyurl.com/zga5ah7 She wrote over 100 novels, including a few medical ones #histmed #histnursing She died 18 March 1978 #medhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Lucy and Tallulah” tinyurl.com/y8r4wdon #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

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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

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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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

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

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

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

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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. "Dogwood Duet" one of several Franklin Mint plates w/her art

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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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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