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Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "From the Garden's Edge"

Today’s Find: In the 7th ep of “Dr. Quinn, Medcine Woman” 13 Feb 1993, “The Great American Medicine Show”, Dr. Elias Jackson & Dr. Quinn discuss medical school alma maters—he Johns Hopkins, she Women’s Med Coll Penn tinyurl.com/2jwxfp3j & tinyurl.com/2wfdmuxj #histmed #medicalhistory

1936 Feb 13: American Society of Anesthetists founded . Became the American Soc of Anesthesiologists in 1945 tinyurl.com/5xtejceh #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Douglas [27 Aug 27 1877 – 13 Feb 1951] was a very popular American author & minister tinyurl.com/mtbwbd5t Also wrote "The Robe" & "Magnificent Obsession". This title "Disputed Passage" published 1939, pb 1973 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

Today’s #Alabama Book: Joseph Ray & Lillian Worley, “Alabama's Heritage; a Study of the Public Administration of Natural Resources (1947)
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Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "From the Eastern Shore"

Today’s Find: Anesthesia History Calendar tinyurl.com/2s3badwm [PDF] I’ve also made this resource available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/5n857wpy #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1809 Feb 12: Abraham Lincoln was born. In 1857 he prosecuted a case with a chloroform-induced insanity defense tinyurl.com/belxlxo #histmed #medicalhistory

Today's Patent Medicine Trade Card: Burbank's Pharmacy "Pure Drugs & Family Medicine" in Manchester via the Library Company of Philadelphia tinyurl.com/3hj5ut4j #histmed #medicalhistory

1809 Feb 12: Charles Darwin was born. As a medical student Darwin discovered the horrors of pre-anesthesia surgery, which led to him leaving med school bit.ly/16XPJLX Gave chloroform to his wife during her labor 1850 tinyurl.com/5n7smn85 #histmed #DarwinDay

Today’s #Alabama Book: “The Early Stories of Truman Capote” has 14 pieces written in his late teens & early twenties. These tales show skills soon to mature in later writings. “The Moth in the Flame” is explicitly set in Ala. The main character in “Lucy” is from the state tinyurl.com/2p89t3v4

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Flowers in a Vase"

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Lees was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Fetter, wife of a physician, who wrote 7 books & many articles & stories tinyurl.com/3cfwf646 Died 22 Jan 1973. This paperback published in 1947 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

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Today’s Find: “Dr. Hudson’s Secret Journal” an American medical TV drama that aired in syndication 1955-57. Based on Lloyd Douglas’ 1939 novel of that title tinyurl.com/mw9vpzns A 1957 episode is available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/3na5z8t7 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: “Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case” a 1940 crime drama with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore & Larraine Day. Fifth of the ten Kildare films tinyurl.com/5apwd6zv Available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/2p8apvpa #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfilm

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama on Some U.S. Postage Stamps (6): Authors” tinyurl.com/w4zhfdb #alabama #postagestamp #alabamayesterdays

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Hello, Bird!" one of her many cherub paintings

How Alabama gives us a never-ending lesson in Black history | Alabama Reflector By pushing their voices off campuses and out of classrooms, leaders remind us that controlling Black Alabamians has always been this state's priority.

How #Alabama gives us a never-ending lesson in Black history alabamareflector.com/2026/02/09/h...

Today’s Comic: “Myra North, Special Nurse” ran as a daily comic strip in U.S. newspapers from Feb 10, 1936 until March 25, 1939 tinyurl.com/y6tmpynv & tinyurl.com/y22h83re #histmed #medicalhistory #histnursing #nursinghistory

1878 Feb 10: French physiologist Claude Bernard died. Among his many other accomplishments he published “Lectures on Anesthetics” in 1875 tinyurl.com/yx4mdeh7 He was born 12 July 1813 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today's Find: "Twilight Zone" episode "Twenty-Two" 10 Feb 1961 A professional dancer is hospitalized & dreams about a sinister nurse at the morgue. Arlene Martel played the nurse who declared "Room for one more, honey" tinyurl.com/y6w4wvwq #histmed #histnursing

1827 Apr 5: Joseph Lister was born. British surgeon & pioneer of antiseptic surgery with carbolic acid tinyurl.com/nzbvx5h Died 10 Feb 1912 #histmed #medicalhistory

1950 Mar 22: Bernice R. Walters [1 Sept 1912-10 Feb 1975] became the first female physician assigned to a U.S. Navy vessel tinyurl.com/zbrwhn89
She later served as Chief of the Anesthesiology Service, Queen’s Hospital, Hawaii #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: Encyclopedia of Alabama entry on legendary #UAB cardiac surgeon John W. Kirklin [1917-2004] tinyurl.com/y93747to #BirminghamAlabama #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Got the US 231 South of Montgomery Blues (2)” tinyurl.com/v5bzdvy #alabama #montgomeryalabama #alabamayesterdays

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Barn in Snow"

Today's Vintage Book Cover: By the prolific Arlene Hale who wrote numerous medical romances www.fantasticfiction.com/h/arlene-hale/ #histnursing #nursinghistory #histmed #medicalhistory

Today's Vintage Pulp Cover: This nurse means business. This issue of the pulp magazine "Thrilling Detective" was published in Feb 1942 . The magazine ran from 1931 until summer 1953 tinyurl.com/ybomgewc #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today's Find: 26 Aug 1921 "Will Use Lethal Gas on Convicts" tinyurl.com/y839w9km Nevada first U.S. state to use gas for executions in Feb 1924 tinyurl.com/jt5kjsjNotes gas will be a form of anesthesia administered by an "anaesthetician" physician or male nurse #histmed #medicalhistory

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Iris"