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Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Lavender", one of an herbal series

Today’s Find: Tricia Taylor’s 2022 book, “Zero to Ten: Nursing on the Floor” tinyurl.com/4rn8858c Stories from 40 years of nursing experience in four U.S. Southern states including #Alabama #histmed #histnursing #nursinghistory #medicalhistory

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

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Halloween Back in the Day” t.co/gHaqqgmJyq #Alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: A 21” Miss Curity Doll from the 1940’s created to promote the Curity line of nursing products; the brand continues today in bandages, diapers, etc from CardinalHealth tinyurl.com/3ucff59h #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today's Find: "Perry Mason" episode “The Case of the Pathetic Patient” first broadcast on Oct 28, 1961. A doctor is accused of malpractice & complications & murder follow tinyurl.com/wkqmgrv #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Alabama Yesterdays blog post "Back in the Days of the Poll Tax" t.co/Re1x5n8y1J #alabama #alabamayesterdays

Today’s Find: “Praxis” was an alternative newspaper published in Auburn, Alabama in the early 1970’s t.co/tccRLbOBrG [PDF] This issue is 6 Oct 1971

1964 Oct 27: Film version of #Alabama author William Bradford Huie's book “The Americanization of Emily” was released t.co/8qL2hLlCZH

Today’s Find: “Providence” an American medical TV series with a female physician main character who leaves her practice as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon to return home. Ran from 8 Jan 1999 until 20 Dec 2002 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv tinyurl.com/55v73bjc

Today’s Find: American nurse Ellen La Motte’s 1916 book “The Backwash of War” tinyurl.com/ybdv9uzg #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Seale, was the pseudonym of Mary Jane MacPherson (d. 11 March 1974)[1] and A.D.L. MacPherson (d. 30 October 1978), a British writing team of over 45 romance novels from 1932 to 1971 tinyurl.com/ywt7m2ab This one from 1958 #histmed #medicalfiction

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Aria" teapot, cup & saucer, one of several China designs

Today’s #Alabama Book: “Alabama Noir” edited by Don Noble is a collection of short stories in Akashic Books long-running series t.co/yp9dJddnRP & t.co/krBbwEegah

Final morning on one of our visits to #stgeorgeislandflorida 26 October 2023

1945 Oct 26: Actress Jaclyn Smith was born tinyurl.com/5djhue26 She played #FlorenceNightingale in this TV movie first broadcast 7 April 1985 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: California newspaper article 26 Oct 1909 “Anaesthesia Tablets Accomplish Results” in Turkey tinyurl.com/y783pe99 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1919 Oct 26: Newspaper item on post-World War I Hungary tinyurl.com/gm3qsmm "No chloroform or ether" Operations done w/out anesthesia #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: A.J. Wright, “Early Use of General Anesthesia in Alabama, 1847-1853” tinyurl.com/3tuvkf3e #alabama #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: “#Tuscaloosa” is a film set in the #Alabama city in 1972 t.co/XQ3kbKFCDL Released 5 Oct 2019 Based on the 1994 novel by W. Glasgow Phillips t.co/gxdlwjAq2i

1976 Oct 25: Last of surviving Scottsboro Boys Clarence Norris pardoned by #Alabama Gov. George Wallace t.co/yoyELCDOtg

Today’s Comic: “Ben Casey” #4 Feb 1963 tinyurl.com/mm75n4bs Based on the American medical TV series with Vince Edwards that ran 1961 to 1966 tinyurl.com/3redb9ta #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalcomic

1902 Oct 25: Author Frank Norris died. In his novel “McTeague” the titular dentist attacks a female patient who is under ether anesthesia. Filmed as “Greed” in Eric von Stroheim’s 1924 silent movie bit.ly/1sHdl0L & tinyurl.com/yybpmwjn #histmed #histdentistry

1819 July 4: Edward R. Squibb born. His pharmaceutical firm founded in 1858 manufactured medicinal products safer, cleaner and more standardized than most then available. First order was for 18 pounds of chloroform. Squibb died 25 Oct 1900 tinyurl.com/y7vdd28l #histmed #medicalhistory

"Jack and Jill" Oct 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

Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] on Fine Art America for prints, mugs, greeting cards etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly watercolors for 50 yrs. "Christmas Bird" tote bag, one of many of her holiday images

Today’s Find: My son Amos Jasper Wright IV is on the program at Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge Oct 31 with his latest work of fiction “The Battle of Danziger Bridge” tinyurl.com/48439w46 #amosjasperwrightIV #lousianabookfestival #literaryfiction

Today’s Find: Anesthesia History Calendar tinyurl.com/2s3badwm [PDF] I’ve also made this resource available at the Internet Archive tinyurl.com/5n857wpy #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today's Comic Book: "Doctor Tom Brent, Young Intern" from October 1963, no. 5 comics.org/issue/170427/ Only 5 issues published, all that year #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalcomic

#Alabama Book of the Day: Published 1969 t.co/mNad0HQKfV Kelly born in Excel 16 Oct 1926, died 11 Dec 2014

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

Today’s Find: #Alabama native & heavyweight champion boxer Joe Louis appeared on a 23 Oct 1960 episode of “This is Your Life” t.co/URQii782e2 & t.co/NtMcAnohNA More about Louis at t.co/VhMqvx9KFB

1869 Oct 23: John Heisman was born. He coached football at #Auburn 1895-1899. Died Oct 3, 1936 t.co/sYmKyqjNnH #Alabama #AuburnUniversity

1941 Oct 23: Mobile, Alabama native Francis Maybrick died in poverty in Connecticut. She spent 14 years in prison in England for the murder of her husband James on 11 May 1889. "Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years" was published in 1904 t.co/grIVy3nT1l #alabama

Today's Photo: U.S. President Bill Clinton visiting a patient at Walter Reed Hospital 23 Oct 1993 tinyurl.com/y686yl9t #histmed #medicalhistory

Today's Find: Saturday Evening Post cover from Oct 23, 1943 tinyurl.com/yalgpmpg "Lighting His Cigarette" by Jon Whitcomb #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

2002 Oct 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis began; ended 3 days later with around 170 deaths, probably with the use of a fentanyl derivative tinyurl.com/kpzowbm & tinyurl.com/mr378vz7 #histmed #medicalhistory

2008 Nov 4: Author & physician Michael Crichton died tinyurl.com/bwhy7j8 Early in his career he published this 1970 book looking at the hospital experiences of five people. He was born Oct 23, 1942 #histmed #medicalhistory

1922 Oct 23: Actress Colleen Gray was born tinyurl.com/y4bs2cd2 Among her many roles was the 1950 film noir "The Sleeping City" with Richard Conte, filmed at Bellevue Hospital in NYC; she played nurse Ann Sebastian tinyurl.com/oxpy5wq She died 3 Aug 2015 #medicalfilm #medicalhistory

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

Today’s Find: A.J. Wright, “Hidden Legacies: Early African-American Physicians in Alabama” tinyurl.com/4r8huzu7 #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama

We’ve published over 1,800 essays since NC started in 2014! Over the past few weeks our editors have been creating mini-syllabi based on different themes. This week we’re sharing our “The Personal is Historical” Syllabus: nursingclio.org/2026/10/21/t...

Today’s Find: “The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness and Recovery” a 2026 collection edited by Meghan O’Rourke tinyurl.com/57u269u2 #histmed #medicalhistory #poetry

Today’s Find: This sign appears in “The Empty Sleeve” episode of the TV Western “Rawhide” first broadcast 2 April 1965 tinyurl.com/767rc62p #histmed #medicalhistory

It’s been two years since the publication of my second book, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. I wrote this book amid the carnage of the COVID-19 pandemic and dedicated it to the memory of a remarkable young man—and every person who has been touched by HIV and AIDS. 🗃️

Today’s Find: “Saturday Evening Post” cover 22 Oct 1949 “Leaving the Hospital” by Stevan Dohanos tinyurl.com/bdnrdhn8 In addition to those for other magazines, Dohanos created 125 Post covers in the 1940's & 1950's #histmed #medicalhistory

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

Today's Find: Blog post "Birmingham Photo of the Day (15): Tornado of 1901" t.co/nMznP96kt4 #Alabama