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Printed recipe. Reads: For swelled legs. Take salt herrings, open them, pulling out the back-bone, lay them to the soles of your feet: by doing this once per day, for 7 days, you will experience the benefit.

Sore legs? Considered putting herrings on your feet? - Handy 1785 medical tip

An advert for "Cocarettes" depicting a woman smoking on the front of the package, and a list of reasons to smoke them on the back.

The COCARETTE was a cigarette made with coca & tobacco leaves, c.1885. The company claimed that coca was “the finest nerve tonic and exhilarator ever discovered.”

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Black and white photo of a woman with short hair sitting in a chair with her legs crossed. She's dressed in trousers and a long coat. Pinned to her lapel is the Medal of Honor.

Mary Edwards Walker worked as a surgeon for the Union Army during the Civil War. She was captured by Confederates after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians & arrested as a spy. She's the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor - pictured here, wearing it.

A round brown token with an arm holding a coffee pot emerging from the clouds. Around the edge are the words ‘Lawrence Short Net’.

☕ *An arm emerges from a cloud to fill a cup from a pot of coffee*…

No, you’re not dreaming. This delightful image appears on a 17th century token minted in Oxford.

From 1648–1672 and again from 1788–1815 the Royal Mint did not produce any small change.

A relatively small wooden chest. The lid opens up to reveal spaces for 8 glass bottles. There are also two doors on the front of the chest which have spaces for 2 bottles each. The open doors reveal 2 small drawers in the body of the chest.

This medicine chest dates from the 18th century. The chest includes 2 pewter containers & 10 glass bottles, 9 of which have pewter tops and one that has a glass top. The design of this bottle is slightly different and may be a replacement, it would have contained peppermint oil.

Today’s Find: “Wife, Doctor and Nurse” is a 1937 American comedy film with Loretta Young, Warner Baxter & Virginia Bruce as the title characters tinyurl.com/5fhwmt6t Hijinks ensue #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm #lorettayoung #warnerbaxter #virginiabruce

Handwritten list of surgical instruments

A handwritten inventory of surgical instruments from Glasgow Royal infirmary, 1825. You can find out what was in the store by viewing our digitised copy heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/192

Today’s Find: “The Genuine Tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a Physician in Pekin, For the Murder of the Mandarin Tonwin, Treasurer to the Army of the Emperor of China” published in London in 1746 tinyurl.com/5mny3e2m #histmed

A set of seven different-shaped surgical instruments

This is a set of seven Roman surgical instruments. Of the set at least three appear to probes; being long thin instruments with a broadened flattened head. One of the items is a small bowl with a spout let into one side and may be for blood letting.

Illustration of a man holding a jar of urine up to the light to inspect it

Physician performing #uroscopy from the manuscript Theoria Medicinae Naturalis dating from c.1630. It's attributed to Conrad Goltzing. But who was Goltzing? We know very little about the book, its author or how it came to be in our collection 🤔
#historyofmedicine #manuscripts #archives

Printed recipe. Reads: Inflammation of the eyes. 1. Cheese put on the eyes. 2. Sugar put in the eyes. 3. Mouse-ear, with polenta, applied plaister-ways. 4. The leaves of great house-leek applied. 5. Parsley, with bread, or polenta

Parsley, leek, bread, polenta and cheese...another 18thc recipe where the nice food gets applied on the skin and the patient has to eat dung

Today’s Find: John Tytler [17 Dec 1745-11 Jan 1804] was a scientific dabbler; first in Great Britain to go up in a balloon, which he designed; wrote 100s of articles for the 2nd ed of the “Encyclopedia Britannica” & fell & drowned in Salem, Mass tinyurl.com/yfp6mw2c #histmed #medicalhistory

Acquaintance of John Hunter, who observed that Foote’s growing reckless and erratic behaviour after a leg amputation without anaesthesia might be result of the this had caused.

Three Willow sticks. Each has a pointed end and a frayed end.

Our #TriviaTuesday object this week comes from late 19th century Japan. They are made of willow and the longest is 20 cm in length. What are they?

Opening concert of this year’s Buckingham Summer Festival coming soon. Start a week of fabulous recitals and concerts! 🎶
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Steel screw with horse-hair filled pads and cotton canvas straps.

Tourniquet's have been in use since 4th century BC. The Petit tourniquet was designed by Jean Louis Petit in 1718, who added the screw mechanism. It would have been used with a long surgical knife and bone saw during amputation to limit blood supply and reduce blood loss.

Page from a lecture notebook with handwriting and a colour labelled illustration identifying the muscles of the buttocks, thigh and lower leg.

Lecture notebook lying open at pages of handwriting and illustrations of the skull and bones of the shoulder to elbow.

Lecture notebook open at pages with handwriting and illustrations of the muscles of the leg and full body from behind. There is a snake weight holding the pages in place.

Lecture notebook open at a page with handwriting and illustrations of the forearm bones, and some skeletons fencing.

This art & anatomy lecture notebook belonged to Edinburgh surgeon Patrick Heron Watson, c.1856. The only @rcsed.bsky.social Fellow to have been President twice, some argue he inspired his pupil Arthur Conan Doyle's character 'Dr Watson'. Digitised here: archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?

Printed text, reads: For a stupid person. Any who finds a stupidness, and forgetfulness, in themselves, they ought to drink Hysop always instead of Tea, and in so doing, by using it as Tea, for 14 or 15 days, they will suddenly find the good thereof. Probatum est.

A handy 18thc cure for stupidity. Just swop your cup of tea for Hyssopus officinalis, a medicinal plant

Find out more about the history of tea in our exhibition ‘Hooked’ www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...

Chinese students on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Student speaker on Tiananmen Square, 1989.

Tank 305 rolling onto Tiananmen Square with students dispersing.

Sole figure blocking 4 tanks on entering Tiananmen Square.

#OTD 1989, the Chinese government sent the military to end peaceful student demonstrations on Tiananmen Square for things like greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech.

A photo of a skull that shows severe pitting at the top. The nasal bone shows erosion and damage too. This particular skull is from the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Maryland.

The severe pitting on this skull is the result of tertiary syphilis. Notice the erosion of the nasal bone. So prevalent was syphilis in the 19th century that “no nose” clubs popped up around London. People gathered together to celebrate the fact that their noses had fallen off due the disease.

A long cord of electric wire wrapped in plastic, connected two metal prongs and a plastic box. Another two copper prongs that connect to the box.

The first #TriviaTuesday instrument of June was first introduced in the early 20th century. It's full length is 23 cm. Any ideas what it is?

New light on ancient medicine in Macedonia and Northern Greece The ‘overlooked and underestimated’ history of an ancient Mediterranean region on the development of contemporary medicine has been explored at an international workshop co-organised by the University. Focusing upon new and old techniques of analysis

New light on ancient medicine in Macedonia and Northern Greece

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Dark blue background with white text which reads: can you guess this week's words from our Wohl Pathology Museum? There are 2 words- both are made up of 5 letters. Clues: An anagram of Slelb Ylaps This condition is named after a Scottish surgeon, who discovered that damaging cranial nerves can cause facial paralysis. It is a temporary weakness of lack of movement that usually affects one side of the face.

The final #WordOnWednesday of May comes from our Wohl Pathology Museum.

Can you solve the anagram?

Dark blue background with white text which reads: can you guess this week's word from our History of Surgery gallery? The word is made up of 7 letters. Clues An anagram of Ulostic A medic specialising in diagnosing and treating eye diseases This old medical term comes from the Latin for ‘eye’.

This week we are looking for a word that you could find in our History of Surgery Museum.
Can you solve the #WordOnWednesday riddle?

A black and white sketch of an operating theatre. In the centre a man in a robe and neck ruff dissects a body. Surrounding him are three tiers of observers watching. At the rear of the image a skeleton stands overseeing the display

This is the first anatomy theatre in Leiden, set up by Prof Pieter Pauw. He filled the space with prints, skeletons and skulls (under the table) – all to serve as educational resources for students, even when a dissection was not underway

Happy birthday Juliet! What a lovely memento to have of the big day 🥰