Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays new blog post “Football in Gadsden in 1908” tinyurl.com/5n9xjr5j #football #GadsdenAlabama #alabamayesterdays

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

"Jack and Jill" Feb 1960. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_an... Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription at tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine

Today's Find: Diane Brewster as "Dr. Alice" in an episode of the U.S. western TV series "Tales of Wells Fargo" first broadcast on Feb 23, 1958. Dale Robertson played Jim Hardie tinyurl.com/y9lnukmz #histmed #medcialhistory #medicaltv

1954 Feb 23: First mass clinical trial of the Salk polio vaccine began at an elementary school in Pittsburgh tinyurl.com/3gfbxxoe #histmed #medicalhistory #polio #jonassalk

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. A suncatcher from Amia featuring one of her images

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama Photos of the Day: Gayfers” tinyurl.com/y33f7497 #MobileAlabama #Alabama #alabamayesterdays #gayfers

1908 Feb 22: At a Physiological Soc of London meeting Augustus D. Waller described his chloroform balance to regulate anesthetic delivery. First device to measure concentrations received by the patient. tinyurl.com/ybxh78eu #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1907 Feb 22: Actor Robert Young was born tinyurl.com/tuxdtub One of his iconic roles was the family physician in "Marcus Welby, M.D." a U.S. TV series that ran from 1969 until 1976 tinyurl.com/ydeldr7w He died 21 July 1998 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today's Find: Article in British Medical Journal 22 Feb 1873 by A. Prichard, "Chloroform Accidents" tinyurl.com/y433t7rv #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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

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

2019 Feb 12: Best-selling Alabama author W.E.B. Griffin died. tinyurl.com/y49f96pt Early in his writing career he co-authored numerous M.A.S.H. books under his real name William E. Butterworth #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama

1824 Feb 21: Englishman Henry Hill Hickman wrote a letter to the Royal Society's Thomas Andrew Knight describing experiments w/CO2 for painless surgery in dogs bit.ly/1s9ckfl #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: 21 Feb 1924 newspaper article about painless childbirth in Paris using diethylamine tinyurl.com/ycol6l3s #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1915 Feb 21: Actress Ann Sheridan was born tinyurl.com/27uluwzj In this 1938 "Mystery House" film, she plays nurse Sarah Keate; she played the same character in another film that year, “The Patient in Room 18” She died 21 Jan 1967 tinyurl.com/y5sur3h3 #histmed #histnursing

Today’s Alabama Album: Bobbie Gentry’s “Fancy” some of which was recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals tinyurl.com/y328mcdk Produced by Rick Hall. Tara Murtha’s essay about the title song is at tinyurl.com/y6rwzl7y #alabama #bobbiegentry #famestudios

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Movies with Alabama Connections: The Sin of Nora Moran” tinyurl.com/y6qvgogp #alabama #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. Cross stitch bks published in the 1980s w/patterns from her work

Today's Patent Medicine Trade Card: "Thy aches & ills shall vanish!" tinyurl.com/nkhhrp8n More on bitters at tinyurl.com/4ffzta78 #histmed #medicalhistory #patentmedicine

1783 June 19: Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Ferdinand Serturner was born in Neuhaus, Germany. In 1805 Serturner, an assistant apothecary, discovered morphine, the active ingredient in laudanum. Serturner died 20 Feb 1841 tinyurl.com/y77sjebd #histmed

Today’s Find: U.S. western TV series “Branded” episode “Yellow for Courage” first broadcast Feb 20, 1966, is about diphtheria AND a female doctor played by Patricia Medina. The series starred Chuck Connors tinyurl.com/y585vc66 #histmed #medicalhistory

1909 Feb 20: Smoking Opium Exclusion Law passed by the Congress. First ban of non-medical use of a substance in the U.S. bit.ly/1DC4m24 & naabt.org/laws.cfm & tinyurl.com/yxwce63u #histmed #medicalhistory

1925 Feb 20: Film director Robert Altman was born tinyurl.com/3x6v66zd One of his best known works is "M*A*S*H" [1970] a black comedy set in the Korean War & following the staff at a mobile army surgical hospital tinyurl.com/hbwznjbc #histmed #medicalhistory Died 20 Nov 2006

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays new blog post “A Trip Down Memory Lane” tinyurl.com/yeytavnz #pelhamalabama #alabama #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. "Strawberry Jam"

Today’s Find: This May 1932 issue of “Amazing Stories” included tales by two physicians, David H. Keller’s “Metal Doom, pt. 1” & Miles Breuer’s “The Perfect Planet” tinyurl.com/263sx3uj & tinyurl.com/9893y3j3 #histmed

Today’s Find: A few years before he played Dr. “Bones” McCoy on “Star Trek” DeForest Kelley made 3 appearances on the TV western “The Lone Ranger”; in this last appearance 4 June 1953 he played Dr. Barnes tinyurl.com/4bjrvkhc #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama Photo of the Day: A Newsboy in Mobile in 1914” tinyurl.com/y33m7kaf #alabama #mobilealabama #alabamayesterdays #lewishine

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. "Best Friends"

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Is that horse feeling neglected? Stuart wrote 18 Harlequin romances, many medical. This one published in 1962 tinyurl.com/uuur8x7h She died in 1986 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction

Today’s Find: William Monk is a former policeman & now a private inquiry agent in Victorian England in more than 20 novels by Anne Perry tinyurl.com/y27c5qvh

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Two Actors from Huntsville’s Lee High School” tinyurl.com/y3pkswgk Kim Dickens & Ned Vaughn #Alabama #alabamayesterdays #huntsvillealabama

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. "At Wheeler's Farm"

Today’s Find: “Dr. Six-Gun” follows physician Ray Matson in the U.S. West in the 1870’s. Karl Weber played Matson on the NBC radio series that ran 2 Sept 1954-13 Oct 1955 tinyurl.com/39xeklbh Episodes at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/10b1cz3a #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Comic: “Nurse Betsy Crane” ran from Aug 1961-March 1964 for a total of 16 issues tinyurl.com/y474zzt9 This issue is the final one #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

1781 Feb 17: French physician Rene Laennec of stethoscope fame was born bit.ly/Ms6nK2 He died 13 Aug 1826 #histmed #medicalhistory

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

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. "Fall Chickadee"

"Jack and Jill" Feb 1959. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_an... Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription at tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine

Today’s Find: Bek Nelson as Nurse Purdy in “The Killer” episode of “Man with a Camera” TV series starring Charles Bronson, first broadcast 19 Oct 1959 tinyurl.com/yjn2fx44 & tinyurl.com/y4ps3fhy #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Barbara Bonham wrote a few romance novels tinyurl.com/4d26ey3s This one published in 1965 was her first & apparently the only medical one #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

Today's Find: Item in NY Journal 16 Feb 1896 "Very Remarkable Horse Surgery" tinyurl.com/y8rt4l2s Ether or chloroform used #veterinaryhistory

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Valley Elementary in #Pelham, 1964-2015” tinyurl.com/vhavv7f #Alabama #alabamayesterdays #pelhamalabama

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. "Big Brother's Trick"

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Della Field seems to have published only two medical romances, this one in 1963 & "Vietnam Nurse" in 1966 tinyurl.com/yjnv55mb Perhaps a pseudonym? #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

Today’s Find: "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse" episode of the classic “Perry Mason” TV series was first broadcast on 15 Feb 1958. Something going on in the doctor's office tinyurl.com/y8ouy9md & tinyurl.com/gugrsox #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

1829 Feb 15: American surgeon S. Weir Mitchell was born. Civil War veteran, studied causalgia, phantom limb, wrote fiction, poetry, etc. tinyurl.com/27tyw679 Died 4 Jan 1914 #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. "Strawberries"

Today’s Find: “Without dissent”: Early Black Physicians in Alabama tinyurl.com/y7fbmcyn #histmed #medicalhistory #Alabama