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Austrian scientist & paediatrician Clemens von Pirquet demonstrating the use of fresh air for treating tuberculosis at Vienna Children’s Clinic, 1912. Pirquet made discoveries in diagnostic tests for TB & pioneered a tuberculin skin test that bears his name
#WorldTBDay #WorldTuberculosisDay #histmed #medhist #historyofscience #histsci #archives #libraries
Natural History of Human Teeth (1771) by Scots surgeon & scientist John Hunter. Involved in transplanting healthy teeth from paupers to wealthy patients, Hunter also famously inoculated himself with gonorrhoea to test if it would develop into syphilis
#histmed #histsci #medhist #scottishsurgeons #archives #libraries #rarebooks #18thcentury #bookstadon #books #historyofscience
It's International Day of Education so here's a surgical student being examined in front of his peers, (dated 1912). Looks fun?
#InternationalDayofEducation #EducationDay #histmed #history #medicalstudents #surgerystudents #surgeons #students
Some #FoldOutFriday to celebrate the end of the first week back at work! This beauty from the 17th century was one of the most popular surgical texts of its day: 'Marrow of Chirurgery with The Anatomy of Humane Bodies According to the Most Modern Anatomists' (1685)
#rarebooks #library #libraries #books #archives #Edinburgh #surgery #histmed #anatomy #medhist #Edinburgh
We close today for the festive break and re-open Wed 4th January. We wish fellows, members, researchers, friends and followers a happy and peaceful holiday. We hope to see more of you on Mastadon in 2023 for books, archives and histmed! 📚
#library #libraries #histmed #archive #archives #medhist #books #Edinburgh #christmas #Scotland #RCSEd #surgeons #surgeon
A district nurse braving the wintry elements in rural Scotland, 1920s.
#histmed #histnursing #scotland #snow #winter #nursing #nurse #medhist
We've had our first snow of the season in Edinburgh today. Here's the view from the Library and Archive office! The sculpted figures are our COVID-19 memorial to NHS workers by artist Kenny Hunter.
It's pretty cold in Scotland today, so here's some suitably attired students from a Medical Physics class outside the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, dated 1903
#history #histmed #histsci #medhist #edinburgh #Scotland #medicine #archives #winter #manuscripts #library #libraries #students
