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Old Operating Theatre. London, England, United Kingdom 🇬🇧, 16th June 2024.

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Apr 7

“If it is our mission
to alleviate suffering
as well as to preserve life
there should be no conscientious restraint…”

—Gael Turnbull, “James Young Simpson: If It Is Our Mission…”
from The Hand that Sees: Poems for the quincentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

James Young Simpson (1811–1870) pioneered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic in childbirth

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Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋Mar 29

Podcast on anesthesia practices in babies throughout history. #HistoryofMedicine

They performed Surgery on Babi...

They performed Surgery on Babies Without Anesthesia!

YouTube

aestheticmiscellany Mar 18

From an early 20th-century home medical guide which I discovered in a hotel library a few years ago — note the shifting attribution from masturbation to syphilitic causes

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Jan 28

Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen has written a poem to mark the 300th anniversary of the University of Edinburgh’s medical school. A short film of the poem, animated by students from Edinburgh’s College of Arts, is available to watch via The Scotsman

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/watch-michael-pedersens-poem-to-mark-300th-anniversary-of-edinburgh-university-medical-school-5492523

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WATCH: Michael Pedersen's poem to mark 300th anniversary of Edinburgh University medical school

The 300th anniversary of Edinburgh University’s medical school is an opportunity to look both backwards and forwards, writes Michael Pedersen

The Scotsman

WilliamLMiller Jan 8

I’m currently rewriting the section on the martyrdom of Ignaz Semmelweis in my book Beyond Survival, framing it as the collision of his Weltschmerz with the pervasive nescience of the medical community.
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