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  1. Just published online: Lola Digard's investigation of the expanding role of surgeons and medical professionals in legal proceedings in late medieval Ghent, and its relevance to public health, governmentality, and medical authority.
    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #publichealth #legalhistory #medhist #medmed

  2. The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work. #EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory

  3. We are hosting a panel/ roundtable, #Decolonising Public Health in History, 8/9 April, bringing a #premodern historical lens to the discussion of public health today. Please share!

    Registration: forms.gle/GKtKKzrbr5Jm...

    Event Info: premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1449

    #medhist #gphw2025

  4. 📰 Numa crónica publicada no Diário de Notícias, Francisco George considera que o livro "O Essencial sobre o IPO Lisboa", de Helena da Silva, "para além de oportuna, [a obra] assume indiscutível interesse, sobretudo no contexto atual de eleições, visto que apresenta propostas a serem implementadas a curto, médio e longo prazos. Acaba por ser a história do IPO desde a sua fundação até ao futuro."

    dn.pt/6478214147/opiniao-pesso

    #Histodons #NewBook #HistoryOfHealth #MedHist #IPOLisboa #NovoLivro

  5. 📕 Na tarde do dia 5 de Fevereiro, no âmbito das comemorações do centenário do IPO Lisboa, vai ser apresentado o livro "O Essencial sobre o IPO Lisboa", da autoria de Helena da Silva.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/essenci

    #Histodons #HistoryOfHealth #MedHist #HistoryOfMedicine #IPOLisboa #Oncology #InstitutoPortuguêsDeOncologia #HistóriaDaSaúde #HistóriaDaMedicina #Oncologia

  6. “Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, with accompanying text stating treatments. Tag yourself as a wound. 😂

    #histmed #medhist #histodon #histodons #twitterstorians #twitter #twittermigration #history #medical #medieval

  7. Victorian medicine chest, which contains medications for pain relief, such as opium. It also includes a set of scales, weights, a pill tile, and a spatula. It was probably used in the home or by an apothecary.

    Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.

    #histodons #histodon #history #histmed #medhist #medical #museum #museums #Twitter #twittermigration #twitterstorians

  8. Three glass eyes with portable velvet carrying case and mirror, c.1870. These were likely meant to be carried by an ocularist – someone who specialized in making and fitting prosthetic eyes – to assist them in making the best possible match to the patient’s remaining eye.

    #histodons #histodon #histmed #medhist #medicalhistorian #museumobject #musuem #eye #history #twitter #twittermigration #twitterstorians

  9. I was interviewed a while back for this great episode of the 99% Invisible podcast on the Hogeweyk model of dementia care homes. The reporter does a great job of putting dementia care in the historical context necessary to really understand this story.

    #dementia #DementiaCare #history #medhist

    99percentinvisible.org/episode

  10. During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

    #histodon #histodons #histmed #medhist #twitter #twittermigration #history #WomenSTEM

  11. 📙 Helena da Silva é uma das editoras da obra "Pequenas Cidades no Tempo. A saúde", resultado de uma selecção de textos apresentados no colóquio "Pequenas Cidades e Saúde da Idade Média à Época Contemporânea".

    🔓 O livro está disponível em #AcessoAberto: run.unl.pt/handle/10362/152873

    #Histodons #MedHist #HealthHistory #HistoryOfMedicine #NewBook #OpenAccess #SmallCities #HealthPolicies #HistóriaDaSaúde #SaúdePública #HistóriaDaMedicina #PolíticasDeSaúde

  12. With ONE WEEK to go, @TealCartoons & I have just received our finished copies of #PlagueBusters! Thrill your kids - big or small - with tales of history's deadliest diseases. 💀

    Amazon - bit.ly/3ByrDZJ
    B&N - bit.ly/3hrYdpe
    IndieBound - bit.ly/3huyOLB

    #kidsbook #plague #histmed #medhist #histodons #bookstodon #booktoot

  13. 🆕 We have some great news:

    the journals #Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento and #HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, both published with the support of the IHC, have been accepted for indexing by the #Scopus platform! 🥳🎊

    👉 ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/aniki-host-

    @histodons
    @filmstudies
    @historyofmedicine

    #Histodons #OpenAccess #SciHist #FilmStudies #TechHistory #MedHist #HistoryOfScience #MovingImages #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfTechnology

  14. TOMORROW: I'll be doing a virtual event with the National WWI Museum at 1 pm CST (that's 7 pm for UK attendees). I'll be talking about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WWI, followed by Q&A. Event is FREE! Please register: theworldwar.org/events/facemak

    #histodons #histodon #twitter #histmed #medhist #histsci #plasticsurgery #books #bookstodon #booktoot

  15. Scarificator, late 17th century. This instrument with spring-loaded blades delivered many cuts simultaneously. Afterwards, the doctor placed a heated cup over the site. As it cooled, blood was forced out of the wounds.

    Photo: University of Melbourne.

    #histodons #histodon #history #histmed #medhist #histsci #instrument #scientific #science #medicine #doctors

  16. “One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.

    Follow me for more medical history content!

    #histmed #histsci #histodons #histodon #twitterexodus #twittermigration #medhist #DYK #bigpharma

  17. During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

    #histmed #histsci #WWI #warhistory #war #medhist #science #womeninstem #womenshistory #histodon #histodons #twittermigration #twitterexodus

  18. Watercolor of a malignant growth springing from the eye of a woman, 19th century. The eye protruded for two months. In the righthand corner, you can see a monochrome sketch of the eyeball and tumour after its removal. [Image: Wellcome Collection] #histmed #histodons #histodon #history #medhist #histsci #illustration

  19. This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (c.1787) is now housed at the Javier Puerta Museum. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. It demonstrates the merging of art and science.

    #histodon #histodons #histmed #sciart #histsci #medhist #anatomy

  20. Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to be on Twitter (X) these days.

    The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.

    #twitterstorians #twittermigration #histodons #histmed #histodon #medhist #dentalhistory #dentist

  21. Male skeleton showing wear pattern to teeth resulting from long-term pipe smoking, c.1660. It was excavated from the Patuxent Point site, Calvert County, MD. All of the skeletons uncovered (men, women, and children) showed signs of smoking. #histodons #histodon #skull #histmed #medhist #smoking #skeleton #histsci #archaeology #archaeologist

  22. This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.

    #histodons #histodon #histmed #medhist #medical #history #DYK

  23. This is a photo of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri at the turn of the 20th century. The walls were painted by a surgeon who wanted to give patients something to look at while they waited for their anesthesia. A beautiful merging of art and medicine.

    #histsci #histmed #medhist #sciart #art #oldphoto #medhistorian #surgery #histodon #histodons

  24. The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. Learn more in my book THE FACEMAKER: linktr.ee/drlindseyfitzharris

    #histodons #histodon #history #histmed #histsci #medhist #medhistorian #twitterstorians #twittermigration #twitter #TIL #writer #writing #nonfiction

  25. THE FACEMAKER is out today in paperback! 🇬🇧

    It tells the poignant true story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of WWI's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

    I'd be grateful for your support: amzn.to/442MiS5

    #books #histodon #histodons #history #WW1 #WarHistory #plasticsurgery #war #author #writing #twitterstorians #historian #medhist #histmed