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  1. Sep 3

    Pictures of surgical tools at Kom Ombo, Egypt

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  2. Sep 3

    A licensed ♀ surgeon from the Kingdom of Naples, 14th century. The license is particularly intriguing due to this claim: "females, by their honesty of character, are more suited than men to treat sick women, especially in their own diseases."

    The text of a license to practice surgery in the Kingdom of Naples, given to Maria Incarnata at Naples, 1343. Source: Monica H. Green, “Medicine in Southern Italy: Six Texts (twelfth–fourteenth centuries),” in Katherine L. Jansen, Joanna Drell, and Frances Andrews, eds., Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), p. 325. Translated from: Raffaele Calvanico, Fonti per la storia della medicina e della chirurgia per il regno di Napoli nel periodo angioino (a. 1273-1410) (Naples: L’Arte Tipografica, 1962), p. 261.
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  3. Sep 2

    Anatomy of the lacrimal apparatus of the right eye from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter

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  4. Sep 2

    Feeling a mighty thirst for all things this Thursday? Quench it with this from , Johann Tollat von Vochenberg's work of for a variety of ailments.

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  5. Sep 4

    Today’s Comic Book: “Girls’ Romances” #46 Sept 1957

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  6. Sep 4

    Essay prize in the for - please RT / send to suitable candidates!!

    🏆We are glad to introduce the 1st Nuncius Essay Award! The 2022 Nuncius Prize, which is supported by , will be awarded to the best original essay related to the material and visual history of science, technology and medicine. Further information below 👇
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  7. 10 hours ago

    (Exhibition) Physicians' Flowers

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  8. Sep 3

    How have metaphors of cycles and circulation been used to understand reproduction? A team of historians has explored these relationships in depth - from menstrual cycles and treatment cycles to population cycles and more:

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  9. Sep 5

    Acquisition : a series of polio immunization records for a family from Raleigh, NC, c. 1964. I haven’t personally seen any such vaccination cards with such vivid imagery from the time (not that they didn’t exist) but the 🛑 sign is fascinating.

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  10. Sep 6

    13th century illustration of the circulatory system

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  11. Sep 3

    The Legacy Center is home to many OG teaching tools, like this life-size fold-out “manikin.” This chromolithographic anatomical chart was designed and patented in 1886 by James T. White. Talk about !

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  12. 16 hours ago

    US public health campaign poster from the 1920s attempting to limit spread of TB

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  13. Sep 3

    What a stellar lineup of talks the has organized!! I'm so looking forward and am humbled to be included among such brilliant colleagues. Register here:

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  14. Sep 2

    I am so thrilled to be part of this amazing line up! So many great scholars!!

    The VIRTUAL 2021 Lapidus Center Conference will be held on October 6-8, 2021. It is going to be amazing. Learn more and register here:
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  15. Sep 2

    If there's one thing 2020-present has taught us, it's that everyone in this country desperately needs to take a class.

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  16. Sep 3

    Hey folks! I'm currently collecting new books for review for JHMAS. If you have a new book, please make sure I get a copy to send out! Have your press send me your book! Potential reviewers, watch this space—I'll have a dozen+ books to place in coming weeks.

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  17. Sep 8

    This is gold.

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  18. Sep 3

    📸 from the 1956 Volunteer Yearbook

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  19. Sep 2

    "The use of fetal images expanded rapidly with the growing use of ultrasound imaging in the ‘70s and ‘80s & the rise of the Christian Right." Images & the anti-choice movement:

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  20. Sep 4

    Colour plate showing impetigo figurata pustules on hand By: Thomas Bateman Published: H.G. Bohn, London : 1849. Plate XXXIV

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