Show threadAnja Katharina Peters8h ago
Ich fahre nachher durch #Neustadt am Rübenberge. Was kam da her? - Genau! Die Verbandstoffe, Menstruationsbinden und Schuheinlagen aus #Torfmoos der Firma Marwede. Sehr gut - 1, setzen. #histmed #histpharma #histnursing
Fabienne GallaireOct 6
The State Drug: Theriac, Pharmacy, and Politics in Early Modern Italy
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
#publication
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674299788
https://books.google.fr/books?id=_6xWEQAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false #histmed #histpharma
Fabienne GallaireJul 25, 2025
Pour les amateurs d'histoire de la médecine et de la pharmacie, je rappelle que les Journées du patrimoine sont la seule occasion de visiter le Musée François Tillequin de matière médicale, à la Faculté de Pharmacie, qui en vaut la peine :
https://journeesdupatrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/w/377623/evenement/18667846/visite-guidee-du-musee-francois-tillequin-collections-de-matiere-medicale#/events/18667846
#paris #JEP2025 #histmed #histpharma
AbieFeb 23, 2025
Il y a un quart de siècle mourrait, à l'âge respectable de 90 ans, la première patiente sauvée par la pénicilline, en 1942.
https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/fulton-penicillin-and-chance/
#histmed #histpharma
https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/fulton-penicillin-and-chance/
Fulton, penicillin and chance

On May 27 of this year, in a nursing home in Connecticut’s Northwest Corner, Anne Sheafe Miller died at the age of 90. She owed the last 57 years of her life

Yale School of Medicine
AbieFeb 19, 2025

"By the 19th century, calomel was viewed as a panacea, or miracle drug, and was used against almost every disease, including syphilis, bronchitis, cholera, ingrown toenails, teething, gout, tuberculosis, influenza, and cancer."

"In 1853, Samuel Jackson described the harmful effects of calomel on children (...) causing gangrene on the skin, loss of teeth, and deterioration of the gums."
#histsci #histmed #histpharma #histpoison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calomel

Calomel - Wikipedia

Anja Katharina PetersDec 4, 2024
Habe den berufsbegleitenden Studierenden der #Pflege vom #Torfmoos erzählt. Ich betone: Sie haben gefragt! (Zugegebenermaßen wollten sie nur allgemein wissen, was ich gerade so rumforsche, aber das Tor wurde geöffnet …). Ich dachte ja, dass sie mich endgültig exzentrisch finden, aber sie fanden das Thema toll. #Sphagnum rocks! #histnursing #histmed #histpharma #Moorbewirtschaftung 🌱
Fabienne GallaireOct 23, 2024
"Narwhal tooth powder was thought to have medical powers until the end of the 18th century. A 17th-century English leaflet promised the healing of “Scurvy, Old Ulcers, Dropsy, Running Gout, Consumptions, Distillations, Coughs, Palpitation of the Heart, Fainting Fits, Convulsions, King's Evil, Rickets in Children, Melancholly or Sadness, The Green Sickness, Obstructions”."
Vanessa Sigalas, "The Whole (New) World in a Cup", note 43 p. 18.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/kunsttexte/article/view/88527
#histmed #histpharma #unicorn
The Whole (New) World in a Cup | kunsttexte.de - Journal für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte

Fabienne GallaireOct 8, 2024
Un stock de graines de jusquiame noire datant de l'époque romaine a été trouvé aux Pays-Bas, dans un os utilisé comme contenant !
Toxique, mais aussi, quand elle est utilisée avec prudence, narcotique et anesthésique, la jusquiame noire contient hyosciamine, scopolamine et atropine.
#histsci #histmed #histpharma
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jusquiame_noire
Jusquiame noire — Wikipédia

Fabienne GallaireAug 28, 2024
Did Victorian ladies really take tapeworm pills to stay thin?
No!
The "tapeworm diet" appears to be an unsubstantiated but remarkably long-lived story! For a very thorough examination, read:
https://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/eat-eat-eat-those-notorious-tapeworm-diet-pills/
#histmed #histpharma
'Eat! Eat! Eat!' Those notorious tapeworm diet pills | The Quack Doctor

The tapeworm diet claims a long history, but did our great-grandmothers really fight weight gain with parasites?

The Quack Doctor | History's medical advertisers and their remedies
Fabienne GallaireFeb 17, 2024
Exposition “Les dessinateurs au service de la publicité pharmaceutique”, dans les Salons du Doyen, au sein de la Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris, 4 Av. de l'Observatoire, Paris 6e.
Attention expo très courte : seulement du 26 février au 8 mars 2024, du L au V.
#histmed #histpharma #VisualCulture