Pneumonia has shaped medicine from its earliest documentation by Hippocrates to the latest breakthroughs in treatment and prevention. 🫁📚
Its long history shows how persistent — and preventable — this disease can be.
#Pneumonia #MedicalHistory #PublicHealth #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/the-long-history-of-pneumonia-from-hippocrates-to-modern-medicine/
#medicalfiles #medicalhistory #chronicillnesshumor #chronicillnesslife #chronicillnessmemes #chronicillness
![When someone asks about my medical history [pic of guy pointing at dumpster to cop] i'll have you know the contents of that dumpster are private.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/537/731/252/073/590/original/97ff14fbaa8bf679.png)
Fascinating article on the abundance of medical reference books & notes on remedies in medieval England:
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30906
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#MedicalHistory #medieval #manuscripts @medievodons
The Spanish flu (so-named because the Spanish press openly reported on the outbreak while other World War I belligerents suppressed the news) broke out in March 1918 at Camp Funston, an army camp in Kansas, and struck young, healthy adults with greater ferocity than any other demographic group. #History #1918FluPandemic #FirstWorldWar #Flu #Influenza #MedicalHistory #Medicine #Pandemic #SpanishFlu #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25348-en/
Marie Maynard Daly Rewrote The Rules Of Modern Medicine, This Is Her Story https://shinemycrown.com/marie-maynard-daly-rewrote-the-rules-of-modern-medicine-this-is-her-story/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MarieMaynardDaly #WomenInScience #MedicalHistory #Trailblazers #DiversityInMedicine
Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids https://arstechni.ca/kP8K #children'sbooks #medicalhistory #medicine #Culture #Science #books
#CurrentlyReading The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris #Books #MedicalHistory #Nonfiction
💉 New on the blog → From Leeches to Mummies: Outrageous Historical Cures That Did More Harm Than Good
Plague doctors, owl soup, and powdered mummy medicine — people tried it all in the name of “healing.” Spoiler: most of it made things worse. #WeirdHistory #MedicalHistory #Voguegenics
Allergies?! #bloodletting!
#KätToon #Aderlass #Satire #Medizingeschichte #medicalhistory #Mittelalter #medival
Folk have been making overblown medical claims for cold water for a long-time.
Turns out one of the first proposals for a controlled trial (on #scabies fwiw) was a C19th Irish Dr trolling a cold-water proponent.
Our new #OpenAccess #HistoryofMedicine paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11845-025-04027-x
#ColdWaterTherapy #RCTs #MedicalHistory #scabies #IrishMedicine
Photo: Man swims in cold water. Credit: Oleg Dubyna from Poltava, Ukraine. From Wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_swims_in_cold_water_(34807325734).jpg
This lead cast from the late 19th century shows a right hand with a supernumerary thumb. The medical term for this condition is Polydactyly.
Surgeons' Hall Museums
@surgeonshall #globalmuseum #museums #medicalhistory
Little plane with big history returns home to honour pioneering pilot
By Vanessa Mills
A tiny plane once used to deliver medical care across the Western Australian outback has returned to Broome for the first time in decades to honour its original pilot Robin Miller.
#History #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #MedicalHistory #Polio #RegionalCommunities #VanessaMills
💊 From miracle tonics to snake oil, quack cures shaped health culture in the 19th & early 20th centuries — often at great risk. 🕰️
#History #MedicalHistory #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/quack-cures-and-self-remedies-in-the-19th-and-early-20th-centuries/
After a brutal jousting accident in 1536, Henry VIII’s festering leg wound reshaped his reign—fueling paranoia, tyranny, and decline. Behind the throne, pain ruled the king’s every step.
#HenryVIII #TudorHistory #RoyalInjury #MedicalHistory #TudorSecrets #VizlaShorts #ShortsHistory #RealKings #LegWound #AncientHistory #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read More:https://www.ancient-origins.net/videos/henry-viii-health-video-0020763
#chronicillness #autoimmune #chronicallyill #chronicillnesshumor #chronicillnessmemes #autoimmunememes #fibromemes #fibromyalgia #spoonie #chronicillnesslife #spoonielife #chroniclife #medicalhistory
19th-century Britain had Black doctors.
They earned their degrees. They saved lives.
And then… history tried to erase them.
This is the story of what they faced—and how they endured.
https://brewminate.com/the-secret-lives-of-britains-first-black-physicians-in-the-19th-century/
#Brewminate #BlackHistory #HiddenFigures #MedicalHistory #ReclaimHistory
Anti-vaccine movements are older than you think.
Inoculation cults, protests, riots—it’s a chaotic history that keeps coming back in new forms.
Because fear is always evolving.
https://brewminate.com/a-short-history-of-vaccine-objection-vaccine-cults-and-conspiracy-theories/
#Brewminate #VaccineHistory #AntiVax #MedicalHistory #ScienceMatters
TODAY IN HISTORY: August 6, 1890
The first electric chair execution wasn’t just a legal event—it zapped open debates about science, ethics, and who controls the human body.
Still relevant. Still unresolved.
Tarry Hardware Opinion – Ep. 56
In which we have a tarry hardware opinion, try to stop thinking about our problems, grab something to eat, and chuckle at wily writers.
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If the sound of all that doesn’t offend you, please click play: […]
https://offgrid.tlmb.net/2025/07/27/tarry-hardware-opinion-ep-56/
The medication that Henry Chapman Mercer was taking when he died. Can anyone guess which medication made his illness fatal?
Picture taken at Fonthill Castle in Pennsylvania.
https://www.risible.games/acfway?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
