Henry Gray of #GraysAnatomy in a dissection room, c.1845. Gray contracted smallpox after caring for his nephew, who eventually recovered. On 13 June 1861, the day he was to appear for an interview as a final candidate for a prestigious hospital post, he died at the age of 34.

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N.B. This is NOT an image of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895), the first Black woman to earn an MD in the U.S. It is Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), the first professionally trained African American nurse in the U.S. No images of Crumpler taken during her lifetime are known to exist. Be careful because several websites and publications mistake Mahoney for Crumpler. #medhistory #historodons #blackhistory

Find of the day: a Percocet-branded tape measure, compliments of DuPont. #MedHistory #historodons #BigPharma

This is really neat! If you follow the links you'll find a scan of the skull you can interact with
#newengland #connecticut #vampire #death #genealogy #cemetery #history #wierdhistory #histodons #medhistory #tuberculosis

19th-century ‘Connecticut vampire’ receives forensic facial reconstruction with help from VCU researchers - VCU News - Virginia Commonwealth University https://news.vcu.edu/article/2023/01/19th-century-vampire-receives-forensic-facial-reconstruction-from-vcu-researchers

Tinted, double-hinged spectacles, c.1790. Many opticians believed green or blue glass was easier on the eyes and would reduce glare; while clear glass was too soft and would distort images.

This extraordinary example is from the Wellcome Collection in London.

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The anatomical theater at Davidge Hall, formerly The College of Medicine of Maryland, in Baltimore has been in continuous use for medical education since 1813 and is the oldest such structure in the United States #medhistory #histmed #medicalhistory #history #histodon #Baltimore

Prescription from 1920 for cocaine eye drops
#history #histodon #medhistory #medicalhistory #weirdhistory #oddities #antiques

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Someone in the neighborhood must have had a serious collection of classic books about early women doctors, because I see books like this one turn up regularly in the #littlelibraries. Judging from photos, the real Dr Emily Dunning Barringer didn’t have such a magnificent pompadour. Sad that they left Dr Barringer’s hard-earned title out of the book title. Fuck the patriarchy. #medhistory #womensbiographies

Glass plate for x-ray imaging (pre-1914). From the collection of the Mobile Medical Museum. #historodon #Museums #medhistory

Glass plate for x-ray imaging (pre-1914). From the collection of the Mobile Medical Museum. #historodon #Museums #medhistory

Grave of Thomas Dent Mütter (1811-1859), the American surgeon whose donation of items essentially founded The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Indian Hill Cemetery , Middletown, CT
#taphophile #cemetery #history #medhist #medicine #medhistory #Connecticut #ct #philadelphia #oddities

Grave of Thomas Dent Mütter (1811-1859), the American surgeon whose donation of items essentially founded The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Indian Hill Cemetery , Middletown, CT
#taphophile #cemetery #history #medhist #medicine #medhistory #Connecticut #ct #philadelphia #oddities

Grave of Thomas Dent Mütter (1811-1859), the American surgeon whose donation of items essentially founded The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Indian Hill Cemetery , Middletown, CT
#taphophile #cemetery #history #medhist #medicine #medhistory #Connecticut #ct #philadelphia #oddities

Grave of Simon Whipple Aldrich in Rhode Island
The inscription "Altho’ consumption’s vampire grasp Had seized thy mortal frame..." has connected him to the New England Vampire Panic, though there's no evidence this was a case of exhumation or accused vampires. The lines are actually from a poem that commemorates the 1838 death of abolitionist Joseph Horace Kimball.
#vampire #newengland #history #weirdhistory #tuberculosis #medhistory #cemetery #taphophile #deviantburial #ri #rhodeisland

Grave of Simon Whipple Aldrich in Rhode Island
The inscription "Altho’ consumption’s vampire grasp Had seized thy mortal frame..." has connected him to the New England Vampire Panic, though there's no evidence this was a case of exhumation or accused vampires. The lines are actually from a poem that commemorates the 1838 death of abolitionist Joseph Horace Kimball.
#vampire #newengland #history #weirdhistory #tuberculosis #medhistory #cemetery #taphophile #deviantburial #ri #rhodeisland

A History and Science Lesson About the Gallbladder https://www.autostraddle.com/leigh-cowart-gallbladder-pain/?s=09

#science #MedHistory #history #surgery #biology #health #organs #body #MedAnthro #medical

Tolles Design auch, wäre heute ein Coffee-Maker. #medhistory

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Hey, #MedMastodon #HistoryMastodon #MedHistory, got a question for you!

So my med students seem to enjoy my end-of-class babbling on medical history/oddities to the point that they are now demanding it (I have made it clear they wont get any extra credit because of this and still they insist so I assume their interest is sincere 😂 ).
I usually say ok and ask for a subject. This week they suggested the #BlackDeath (don't ask why).
So I mushed together a few ideas. I concluded with the interaction of #Yersinia pestis and #FMF, bringing the subject back on track (#ClinicalImmunology).

Now I was reviewing some facts and I saw this paper (10.1136/pgmj.2004.024075) by Duncan and Smith on the #PostgraduateMedicalJournal #PMJ. They make quite a case for the underlying cause of the #Plague being some sort of virus, possibly a haemorrhagic fever.
One of the arguments is the selection of yet another variant that might protect against disease - in their proposed model its CCR5-delta32 which protects against HIV-1 and seems to have had a substancial boost in prevalence during the same period of the Bubonic Plague.

I had never heard of this. I found a lot of news reports from the early 2000s on this but seems to have faded away since then as a theory.

I still found it very interesting. Does anyone have any new information on this?
I am aware of the recent isolation of Y pestis and the 2022 Nature paper, but could these two agents not have coexisted, for instance?

#Introduction
Born and raised in Scotland, alumni from #UStA and #RGU. I've been an immigrant Londoner since 1997. I'm a medical librarian, working at LSHTM - hi to all the #MedLibs out there - with a special interest in #SystematicSearch for #SystematicReview.
I'm also a big #LFC fan, history geek - hi to any #BBK #MedHistory alumni - and a #Crochet fan.