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Attached is the main part of a summer 1856 medical journal advertisement for Dr. Taylor's Water Cure Establishment. The second item is my commentary on the ad plus information about the early development of physical therapy in the United States. If you are interested in the histories of physical therapy and massage therapy, my posts (TribeOfJesse) at FamilySearch.org under the names of George Herbert Taylor and George Henry Patchen in the Sources sections may be worth your while to look through. For some reason, the Person record for Dr. George H. Taylor are hard to find at FamilySearch. The easiest thing is to search on the name of his son, William George Langworthy Taylor of Lincoln, Nebraska, and then link to the father. FamilySearch can be a bit hard to use until one gets used to it. Search on a person's name and in the Results list many entries have something like a decorated < symbol. Clicking on it ought to lead to a Person record. My most numerous and extensive posts are under the Sources heading. Click on a Sources entry and it ought to expand considerably. The present entry is under the year 1856 and has the title, "Swedish Movement Cure Department at Dr. Taylor's Water Cure, Summer 1856." None of these words should throw you. It is not an article about hydropathy but rather a post about early physical therapy. Incidentally, Dr. George Henry Patchen went on to become the medical theoretician of chiropractic. W.G. Langworthy Taylor wrote a 1937 textbook about spiritualism titled "Immortality." Dr. Charles F. Taylor's grandson, also named Charles Fayette Taylor, was one of the most important pioneers of aviation. A lot of brilliant people were in this Taylor line.

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I just finished reading Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. It's a harrowing read, and I feel much more educated on pregnancy and how unwed mothers were treated in the days before legal abortion. But one thing about the story kept niggling at me. It's set in Florida in 1969, and measurements were referred to in metric. As in, how many litres of blood in a human body, and how many centimeters a cervix is dilated.

Now, maybe it's different in the medical profession, but metric wasn't introduced in Canada until the 70s when I was a little kid. And as far as I know, Americans still haven't adopted the metric system for whatever reason.

Sooo... was this something the editors didn't catch, or am I wrong about metric not being used in 1969 Florida?
#metric #medicine #Books #obstetrics #MedicalHistory

A plaque marking the townhouse where Joseph Lister lived between 1860 and 1869, while he was the Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University. During this time, he also worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he developed the basis for antiseptic surgery that is one of the core elements of modern medicine. If you have ever had surgery of any kind, there's a good chance you owe your life to the work Lister carried out while he lived here.

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From: Daniel Anderson, Sci-fi and Fantasy Author

This is a real, intact human nervous system.

In 1925, two medical students in Kirksville, Missouri were challenged to dissect a cadaver's nervous system, starting from the brain downward, but leaving the entire system in one piece. The process took the students - M.A. Schalck and L.P. Ramsdell - over 1,500 hours. Their "blood, sweat, and tears" produced this extraordinary display, located at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University (ATSU) in Kirksville.

There are only 4 of these in the world.

Original Post can be found here.

Good Morning #Canada
Today, I have my annual visit to my cardiologist as a follow-up to my 2018 open heart surgery. Coincidentally, I learned a few days ago that the surgeon who had his hands all over my heart, Dr. Tirone David, will soon be on Canada’s #WalkofFame. The Walk of Fame is adding a Science, Technology and Innovation category in 2025 and Dr. David will be among the first inductees.

#CanadaIsAwesome #Pioneer #MedicalHistory
uhnfoundation.ca/press/legenda

UHN FoundationLegendary surgeon Dr. Tirone David to be inducted into Canada’s Walk of FameCardiovascular surgeon at University Health Network’s Peter Munk Cardiac Centre recognized for global contributions to medicine UHN Foundation is proud to announce that Dr. Tirone David, an internationally acclaimed cardiovascular […]

I did not expect to find this #podcast about the #bbl as interesting and surprising as I did. Credit to Dr. McElroy for bringing a lot more thought and care to a pop culture topic that has some intense power in American culture but that I at least hadn’t thought much about. maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbon #sawbones #medicalhistory #beauty

Maximum Fun · Sawbones: Brazilian Butt Lift | Maximum FunSome cosmetic surgeries include adding silicon or plastic to enhance the figure. But what if the extra fat came from your own body?

New in the Canadian Historical Review (I am one of the co-editors): a fine article tracing current vaccine hesitancy to shifts in parenting and the rise of neoliberalism in the late 20th century.

Kathryn Hughes , Catherine Carstairs, "'Needling Doubts': Maternalism, Neo-liberalism and Intensive Parenting as the Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in English-speaking Canada, 1980–2007"

doi.org/10.3138/chr-2023-0006

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBiirthday to Sir William Osler, born on this day in 1849 in Bond Head Ontario. Sir Osler was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Many of the approaches to medical training he advocated - medical residency programs and a medical curriculum that includes bedside interaction with patients - are still cornerstones of medical education today.

#CanadaIsAwesome #MedicalHistory
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

www.thecanadianencyclopedia.caSir William OslerSir William Osler, physician, writer, educator (born 12 July 1849 in Bond Head, Canada West [Ontario]; died 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England). Osler was a ...