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The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

[1/8] Allow us to introduce you to #JohnTaylor (1703-1772), the St Thomas’ Hospital-trained #oculist accused of blinding #Handel and killing #Bach! Denounced as a charlatan by the medical profession, he

#histmed #twitterstorians: I'm looking for a good image from the 1918 flu focused on avoiding infection. Photos of people in masks, a US government poster, etc. Any ideas? Probably won't

Conevery Bolton Valencius

Historians have been pretty clear about this point. https://twitter.com/EENewsUpdates/status/1245724107053895683 Many others as well! Please thread your favorite books on the long history of health and environment. @H_EnviroHealth #twitterstorians #e

Hopkins Med Archives

#LabWeek2020 recognizes laboratory professionals who are essential to healthcare and medical research. We'd like to feature some photos of lab professionals from our collections. #medtech 1959 photo of a lab

It's the big day! Welcome to #BSHSGlobalHist! We’re sharing #HistSci #HistTech & #HistMed research from around the world, from prosthetics to astrophotography, big history to small science, oral history to

Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD

TW: medical racism Yesterday I posted about distancing disability claims/benefits/accommodations from medicine. This is part of the reason why. BIPOC have historically never received equivalent care in the system. 1/7https://www.npr.org/sec

ENT & Audiology News

Oscar Wilde’s Final Irony - a thread#entsurgery #otology #earsurgery #histmed #entauds The celebrated writer and poet, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. At

Melanie Kiechle

This piece by @zeynep explaining the significance of the CDC and WHO announcing that the coronavirus is airborne--and why it took so long to get here--is really great. I want

The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

[Thread ] Have you heard about #toothtransplants in the past? They were particularly popular by the 18th c. Why? Sugar abuse! By this period the wealthy classes were hooked on

DisabilityStor1

Thread #twitterstorians #histmed1.Since some of you asked how I set up the #unessay assignment in my courses, here is how I do this (with examples of how it can inspire

Okay, since @KevinMKruse now seems to have given his imprimatur to this piece in the @washingtonpost today about #nCoV2019 & past plagues, it seems time for a mini-thread about #medhist

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[THREAD] Recommandations #Youtube pour #Halloween. Le confinement, ça craint, mais avec de bonnes chaînes Youtube, c'est mieux ! Je vous ai préparé une sélection de vidéos très...de chaînes que j'apprécie

Michelle Cohen, MD

The history of public health is also the history of women in health care. Let’s take a moment to reflect on how the discipline of public health arose out of

I wrote this piece for @STATNews to mark the tricentennial of the start of the Great Plague of Provence, the last of the great* outbreaks of plague in W. Europe.

Kelly S. O’Donnell

As most of you know, I am beginning to work on my second book (lol), which will be a history of doctors' wives in America. One of the big reasons