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🧴 An Ottoman Gargle Bottle Inscribed in Turkish, French, Greek, and Hebrew, 1910c #history #historical #medical #medicalhistory #bottle
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
ottomanhistory.bsky.social
📷 Operating Classroom of the Imperial School of Medicine, Istanbul, 1890s #MedicalHistory
May 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Would you eat this dissected gingerbread man based off Jason Freeny's original artwork? #medsky #medicalhistory #skystorians

Photo: Qimmy Shimmy
A gingerbread man. Half of him is dissected and shows the skeleton and guts.
December 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians
A black and white photo of a man suffering from smallpox. His face is riddled with pustules.
March 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
ottomanhistory.bsky.social
💉 Ottoman Rauf-Branded Glass Ampoule and Box for Hypodermic Injections, Early 20th Century #history #medicalhistory #medical #injection
Ottoman Rauf-Branded Glass Ampoule and Box for Hypodermic Injections.
January 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ajwrightmls.bsky.social
1854 Aug 31: Outbreak of cholera at London's Broad Street water pump, which would be investigated by John Snow bit.ly/8q5O7 #histmed #medicalhistory
August 31, 2026 at 10:45 AM
andy-paciorek.bsky.social
#CurrentlyReading
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
#Books #MedicalHistory
#Nonfiction
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
cumberlandjc.bsky.social
Remembering the pain of searching Index Medicus 😂😖

#medicalhistory
A set of books cataloguing and referencing every medical publication before the days of computer search engines
June 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
This artificial hand is nearly 500 years old. It consists of a metal casing which wrapped around the forearm stump & was secured by leather straps. An internal mechanical structure (now missing) may have allowed the fingers to move. The fingers can flex at the largest knuckle joint. #MedicalHistory
An artificial metal casing of a hand with moveable finger joints.
January 31, 2026 at 2:02 PM
ajwrightmls.bsky.social
Today’s Find: “Every Woman her Own Midwife, Or a compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women” published in 1675 tinyurl.com/yxjjyja9 #medicalhistory #histmed
September 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM
csmbr-pisa.bsky.social
Forthcoming Open Access with PSMEMM:

𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰: link.springer.com/book/9783032...

#CSMBR #PSMEMM #MedicalHistory #Quantification #SantorioSanctorius #BritishMedicine #EarlyModern #Consilia #Advises
August 6, 2026 at 8:01 AM
courtneyohearn.bsky.social
Antique Glass Eye Display Case
Panopoly - Toronto, Ontario

#UrbanGaze #UrbanExploration #Weird #Toronto #Antiques #Vintage #Creepy #Eyes #Eyeball #MedicalHistory #Panopoly #EastCoastKin
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
"The Dance of Death," German oil painting, 18th century. It depicts living people from all walks of life encountering skeletal figures who force them to engage in a deathly dance - a metaphor for the inevitability of our ultimate demise. #skystorians #medicalhistory #history
Various scenes showing skeletons dancing with living people, showing them to their graves.
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
ajwrightmls.bsky.social
Today’s Find: Chloroform bottle from the Charles Pfizer & Co, NYC. Found on Pinterest tinyurl.com/yccypc9h Firm established in 1849 tinyurl.com/yc5mws2j #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
January 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Too early for #ValentinesDay2026? Here's a life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century.

Photo: Alex Peck

#medicalhistory #medhist #histmed #skystorians #history #med #sciart
A heart made from papier-mâché showing the veins and arteries in blue and red.
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
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.”

#skystorians #medhist #medicalhistory #histmed
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.
January 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM
ajwrightmls.bsky.social
Today’s Find: “Body-Snatching” published anonymously in London in 1824. Written by Southwood Smith & William Mackenzie tinyurl.com/48fuc4f6 #histmed #medicalhistory
January 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
donnamartina.bsky.social
#earlymodern
#medicalhistory
charlescmann.bsky.social 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · Jan 12
TIL that Thomas Jefferson instructed Lewis and Clark to carry with them smallpox vaccine--technically, an earlier form that used cowpox--that they were to offer to native people they encountered. Jefferson was by no means a friend to native people, but he was an ardent proponent of vaccination...
Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's instructions to Meriwether Lewis (20 Jun 1803): "In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly & conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; allay all jealousies as to the object of your journey, satisfy them of it’s innocence, make them acquainted with the position, extent, character, peaceable & commercial dispositions of the US. of our wish to be neighborly, friendly & useful to them, & of our dispositions to a commercial intercourse with them; confer with them on the points most convenient as mutual emporiums, & the articles of most desireable interchange for them & us. if a few of their influential chiefs, within practicable distance, wish to visit us, arrange such a visit with them, & furnish them with authority to call on our officers, on their entering the US. to have them conveyed to this place at the public expence. if any of them should wish to have some of their young people brought up with us, & taught such arts as may be useful to them, we will recieve, instruct & take care of them. such a mission, whether of influential chiefs, or of young people, would give some security to your own party. carry with you some matter of the kine-pox; inform those of them with whom you may be, of it’s efficacy as a preservative from the small pox; and instruct & encourage them in the use of it. this may be especially done wherever you winter."
January 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
In 1847, James Y. Simpson became the 1st surgeon to use chloroform as an anaesthetic during childbirth. Indeed, the 1st baby born under the drug’s influence was nicknamed Anaesthesia! Duncan Flockhart & Co. Ltd were the 1st British manufacturers of chloroform. #histmed #medicalhistory #skystorians
An old bottle of chloroform complete with yellowing label. Image: Wellcome Collection, London
January 4, 2026 at 9:43 AM
ajwrightmls.bsky.social
Today's Patent Medicine Trade Card: Let's regulate! tinyurl.com/42atakpb From the Helfand Collection @NYAMHistory #histmed #medicalhistory
March 13, 2026 at 11:45 AM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Three glass eyes with portable velvet carrying case and mirror, c.1870. These were likely meant to be carried by an ocularist – someone who specialized in making and fitting prosthetic eyes – to assist them in making the best possible match to the patient’s remaining eye. #medicalhistory #histmed
A small case with three prosthetic eyeballs inside laid against blue velvet. The inside lid also has a mirror.
May 25, 2026 at 10:30 AM
csmbr-pisa.bsky.social
Healing Places 36:
𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚, 𝟏𝟔𝟏𝟐
Via Della Scala 16, Florence, Italy

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #ApothecaryShop #Florence
September 28, 2026 at 6:58 AM
thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
A plaque marking the townhouse where Joseph Lister lived between 1860 and 1869, while he was the Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University.

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#glasgow #plaque #medicine #josephlister #medicalhistory #glasgowhistory #glasgowroyalinfirmary
January 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Here's my morbid rendition of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas... illustrated by @tealcartoons.bsky.social

#Christmas #skystorians #medicalhistory #histmed #histsci

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTn...
'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Episode 4 - Under The Knife
YouTube video by Lindsey Fitz
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
Okay, history friends: I have just found an English recipe from 1600 calling for scrapings of **a Unicorn's horn.** Any idea what that might actually be?
#medicalhistory #historythreads
July 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM