While we don't have an official date, there's lots of family love for Archie this #Diaversary month! All the best from the #birthplaceofinsulin . #BantingHouse #birthplaceofinsulin #thisplacematters #banting #T1D #T2D #insulin #diabetes #museums #ldnmuse #histmed #LetsEndDiabetes

As we welcome our new residency class, we look back on the origin of 'resident.' The term originated at HSS (formally called the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled) in 1887 as a title for physicians-in-training. #HistMed #MedEd

Never too early to start planning your weekend. Consider touring the #birthplaceofinsulin . This weekend, we are offering additional tours in Cantonese & Mandarin. Sat & Sun: 11am-4pm.
#bantinghouse #thisplacematters #t1d #t2d #insulin #diabetes #museums #cdnhistory #histmed

The father of modern surgery, Joseph Lister was born #OTD in 1827. Lister transformed the surgical world when he introduced his antiseptic technique into hospitals. His work was greatly influenced by Louis Pasteur's work on putrefaction. #histmed

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth 🧠

Quite a lot of my research focuses on the history of mental health in Wales.

Here's a thread on the people and places I am researching 📚

#Wales #History #histmed

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth 🧠

I recently discovered that my 4xgreat-grandmother was a patient in Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum.

I am writing something about her life at the moment.

#Wales #History #histmed

Beautiful sagittal section of the head showing the brain and cerebellum by Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory

Nach fast drei Jahren Arbeit ist endlich mein neuer Sammelband zur Geschichte der Pflege im Nationalsozialismus erschienen. 🎉 #histmed #histnursing

Anatomy of the knee from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter #histmed #anatomy #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

Passed by the Censor. Orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps pose for a quick late-1914 Instagram story. Possibly a personal pocket Kodak camera shot developed locally?

Detail in the ALT.
#HistMed #HistNursing

James Young Simpson died at the age of 58 #OTD , 1870. Simpson is known for discovering the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. His family were offered a burial spot at Westminster Abbey but they turned it down, opting to bury him at Warriston Cemetery in Edinburgh. #histmed

Red Cross worker Miss Anna Rochester lights the cigarette of injured U.S. soldier at evacuation camp #WWI #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

An Emerson iron lung circa. 1950s #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

#valentinesday2024 . This rare, wax-injected #heart is one of the earliest in our collection. Likely to be from an 18c dissection & one of several hundred specimens we can directly link to the work of the #Monro dynasty of #Anatomy Professors Edinburgh Medical School #histmed #Edinburgh

Reminder that grants of up to £1,000 are available to support research projects, courses, or activities related to the history of nursing and midwifery.

🚨 Deadline Friday at 5pm
💻 Find out more and apply online
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RCN History of Nursing Forum

#HistNursing #HistMed

#TriviaTuesday time! Can anyone tell us what this piece of equipment from our archives is? We’ll take fun answers too!

Association of Anaesthetists #MedTwitter #HistMed

The earliest known medical illustration of people with syphilis, Vienna, 1498 #histmed #syphilis #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory

#OTD 1868 in our Faculty Hall, Joseph Lister presented his findings on antiseptic surgery. The Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society minutes record that momentous occasion #histmed #Lister

Intricately detailed dissection from Vesalius's 1543 De humani corporis fabrica #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory

Sectional plan of the gravid uterus in the third and fourth month, from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter #anatomy #histmed #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory