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. "Cup of Sweet Peas"

Today's Find: Bill from St. Vincent’s Hospital Birmingham, Alabama 29 Dec 1937 tinyurl.com/z4cndvxv Note ether charge. See also tinyurl.com/nd6rwyeb #histmed #medicalhistory #birminghamalabama #anesthesiahistory

1849 July 12: William Osler, Canadian physician & one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital was born tinyurl.com/3ufjfnsm This photo shows him around 1912. He died 29 Dec 1919 #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. "Merry Wreath I & II"

"Jack and Jill" Dec 1966. 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: Doc Savage, crime fighting hero of the pulp magazines, inventor & “physician & surgeon—and a mighty good one, the tops in his line” tinyurl.com/5n6mbk8e #histmed #medicalhistory

Today's Find: You can find collections of my anesthesia & medical history tweets for 2018-early 2023 at wakelet.com/@AJWright3871 #histmed #histnursing @wakelet #anesthesiahistory #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today’s Find: American Red Cross parade in Birmingham, Alabama 21 May 1918 tinyurl.com/yyjps9yh #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. "Evening Stroll"

Today’s Find: “Medical Investigation” is an American TV series that ran on NBC for 20 episodes Sept 9, 2004-Mar 25, 2005. An elite team from the National Institutes of Health investigates unusual public health crises tinyurl.com/yaudnq7a #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Alabama Book of the Day: Stephen Mooney [1913-1971] was a poet & literary scholar born in the state. Also taught at universities of #Alabama & South Alabama. This book “New from the South” published in 1968 tinyurl.com/y7y4llot

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. "Radishes"

Today’s Find: Ethel Lynn, M.D., [1881-1960] “The Adventures of a Woman Hobo” published in 1917 tinyurl.com/56thws7j & tinyurl.com/jzuta54a & www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62971 This work is a fictionalized memoir #histmed #medicalhistory

Alabama Book of the Day: Rose Fies lived 1881-1971 tinyurl.com/y8jpe5pb Book published in Birmingham in 1943 #alabama #alabamapoet #alabamapoetry #sipsey #rosefies

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. "Yuletide Cardinal"

Today’s Find: Galen “Doc” Adams, MD, is pulling a tooth as Marshall Matt Dillon looks on in “The Queue” one of the “Gunsmoke” TV show’s half-hour episodes first broadcast 3 Dec 1955 tinyurl.com/h8xmg77 No dentist in Dodge in the 1870’s #histmed #histdentistry #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Ad for Collier’s Drug Co. in the Birmingham Age-Herald 7 Apr 1907 Product listings are “Daily Helps” [patent medicines] & “Wines, Whiskies, Brandies” tinyurl.com/yc2h3xrr #histmed #medicalhistory #Alabama #birminghamal #birminghamalabama

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. "Train Station"

Today’s Find: English author Charles Reade’s 1877 novel “A Woman-Hater” includes among its characters female physician Rhoda Gale tinyurl.com/y3dccj8t #histmed #medicalfiction #medicalhistory

Alabama Book of the Day: Author, actor, U.S. congressman Milford Howard published this book "If Christ Came to Congress" in 1928 tinyurl.com/psjhs7a #alabama #milfordhoward

A friend was processing the George Wallace collection at the Alabama state archives. She sent me a copy of a letter to Wallace parents asking him to not “stand in the schoolhouse door” in June 1963. It was from my parents.

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. "Saint Nicholas III & IV"

Today’s Find: Margaret Vandercook’s 1917 book “The Red Cross Girls Under the Stars & Stripes” & her 1916 book that puts the Red Cross Girls "in the British Trenches" tinyurl.com/2p8asfak#his... #medicalhistory #medicalfiction #ww1

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Birmingham’s Five Points South in 1987” tinyurl.com/bdjce6yj #alabamayesterdays #birminghamal #birminghamalabama #alabama

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama Photos: USO Club in Talladega in 1942” tinyurl.com/2p96yc5w #talladegaalabama #alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: “Tension” is a 1950 film noir in which Richard Basehart plays a pharmacist with an unfaithful wife, played to slutty perfection by Audrey Totter tinyurl.com/y9898xto Squibb seems to have a presence in these stills #histmed #medicalhistory #pharmacyhistory

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. "Saint Nicholas I & II"

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Some Pelham Christmas Ornaments” tinyurl.com/3a9auuxe #Alabama #pelhamalabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: In the 1947 film “High Wall” Steven Kenet’s wife has been murdered & he can’t remember what happened. Rather than face a trial, he is sent to an asylum where he undergoes “narcosynthesis” [light dose of sodium pentothal] to help his memory.

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 Stream in Snow"

Alabama Book of the Day: "Sam", one of Lonnie Coleman's lesser known novels; also wrote “Beulah Land” etc tinyurl.com/ybrxnxkz Spent his teen years in #montgomeryalabama & #tuscaloosaalabama #lonniecoleman #alabama

Today’s Find: Ad for Drs. Dozier & Dozier Medico-Surgical & Electro-Therapeutic Institute at 117 & ½ 21st St in #Birmingham #Alabama Bham Age-Herald 8 Oct 1907 tinyurl.com/y7ukh6kk #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama #birminghamal #birminghamalabama

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. "Rooster with Apple"

Today’s Find: Read more about flight surgeon & physician John Paul Stapp’s incredible rocket sled experiments at tinyurl.com/o9dej38 He died 13 Nov 1999 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: Article “Chloroform Used by Daring Thief” in the Birmingham Age-Herald 18 May 1911 tinyurl.com/y9fgae9f #Alabama #histmed #medicalhistory #birminghamalabama #birminghamal

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. "Christmas Birds" from her "Bird Life" series

Today’s Find: Syndicated newspaper item by John Kendrick Bangs 6 July 1913 lamenting the “alarming epidemic of good health” tinyurl.com/ydb47wg5 Bangs [1862-1922] was a prolific American satirist tinyurl.com/yc958r3o #histmed #medicalhistory #johnkendrickbangs

Alabama Book of the Day: Selma native Eddy Gilmore won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting from Moscow tinyurl.com/y3ybqjtx #alabama #selmaalabama #eddygilmore

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. "Jester I & II"

"Jack and Jill" Dec 1961. 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

Ditto. Currently reading this one myself and enjoying it

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Susan Hayward: Cleburne County Property Owner" tinyurl.com/hvnzgzw #Alabama #alabamayesterdays #susanhayward

Today’s Find: Saturday Evening Post 11 Dec 1954 “A Farewell to my Newborn Son” - author A.E. Hotchner lost his infant son through a medical blunder tinyurl.com/yvv5hxrd See also tinyurl.com/54n65t84 #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. One of her many 'Bird Life" series paintings

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "The 1898 USS Alabama Battleship" tinyurl.com/hg65zgd #alabama #alabamayesterdays #battleship

In the winter of 1911 Sinclair & first wife Meta lived in the "utopian" town of Fairhope #alabama across the bay from Mobile tinyurl.com/y5pksxx9 He began his novel "Love's Pilgrimage" during that time.

Today’s Find: Article “Uses Chloroform to End Her Life” in #Birmingham Age-Herald 6 Feb 1906 tinyurl.com/y8yn6vjx Happened in a #Selma #Alabama #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

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. "Home for the Holidays" one of her many Christmas paintings

Today's Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Christmas Past in Alabama" #christmas #alabama #alabamayesterdays tinyurl.com/mrydr78d

Today’s Find: Dr. L.L. Funk presented his spinning anesthesia device at a dental meeting in Chicago. This article from Washington [DC] Times 16 April 1916 tinyurl.com/3yku2kaw See also tinyurl.com/5n6akbwv #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #dentalhistory