12/04/2022
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Tomorrow’s lecture is SOLD OUT in person, but you can still attend virtually. sign up for the virtual ticket to receive the Zoom link.
“ACT UP is often remembered for its most dramatic moments...While these were powerful visuals, the organization’s core focus was on improving patient-centered care.”
ACT UP pressured the government, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies for more patient-centered care during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic.
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Today is , an opportunity for people around the world to use their individual power of generosity to support their communities and the causes that matter to them.
As a nonprofit organization, everything we do is made possible by through gifts from generous donors like you! Your gift of $100, $50, or $10 ensures that IMHM can continue to fulfill its mission by providing a unique, immersive, and thought-provoking experience for all through tours, public and school programs, and community projects that spark curiosity and a love of learning.
"Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been around for centuries...The traditional practice involves the use of plants, animals, and minerals. It works on the principle of maintaining the delicate balance between 'yin' and 'yang'-;the opposite but interconnected forces said to be at the core of all creation-;to prevent diseases and maintain health."
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been around for centuries. With a history of almost 3000 years dating back to the early Zhou Dynasty, it has been incorporated into China's present medical system.
“Air Force surgeons were confronted with a bomb, literally. But instead of coming face-to-face with a device, they were confronted with a patient who had a live gr***de embedded in his back, essentially making the patient a walking human bomb.”
On November 5, 1965, Air Force surgeons were confronted with a bomb, literally. But instead of coming face-to-face with a device, they were confronted with a patient who had a live gr***de embedded in
“Back in 18th century Amsterdam, people started to realize that, in some cases, the 'apparently dead' were not always 'actually dead.'”
And a glimpse of where science and technology is taking us.
"Sanger was a nurse, sexual health educator, activist and writer, but not a physician. From today’s lens, she was also a complicated figure who adhered to some pseudoscientific and discriminatory beliefs."
Back then, as now in some ways, reproductive rights and abortion were hotly contested issues.
We still have space to join online! Starting soon: The Fall 2022 Installment Forensic Science Lecture Series begins at 5:30pm (Eastern). Laura Scheid and Erica Christensen of the Western Michigan Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine’s (WMed) Body Donation Program present "Historical and Modern Anatomical Donation Practices."
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“Marines wounded on Peleliu were simultaneously treated and evacuated as combat conditions permitted...during the first few days on Peleliu, the fighting was so intense that the wounded were collected and initially treated at beach evacuation centers…” r/medical-care-peleliu-september-1944
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Buried alive: it's a common fear... 🕸️
And for Anton Joseph Wiertz (1806-1865), who created 'The Premature Burial' in 1854, it was a real concern.
Because this picture wasn't just an act of Wiertz's imagination. Rather, it was created during a cholera epidemic and intended to protest the number of people who were buried... but *not quite dead* 😱
Taphephobia (the fear of being buried alive) is one of the many phobias examined in Kate Summerscale's new book: The Book of Phobias and Manias.
Read an extract on our website https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Y0U4GBEAAA__16h6, or pick up a copy in all good bookshops... 🎃
Image: A man with cholera buried prematurely. Photograph after painting by A. J. Wiertz.
“Cancer is a really good example of science and culture being intertwined with each other, and not really being very easy to separate out.”
Do you know why it’s called cancer? “The first identification of the word cancer is from the Ancient Greeks. They...
"Forty years ago, Dr Ray Osheroff sued a US hospital for failing to give him antidepressants. The case would change the course of medical history – even if it couldn’t help the patient himself"
Forty years ago, Dr Ray Osheroff sued a US hospital for failing to give him antidepressants. The case would change the course of medical history – even if it couldn’t help the patient himself
“The shocking deaths of seven people in the Chicago area from tampered bottles led to a massive recall—and generated fears around candy poisonings.”
The shocking deaths of seven people in the Chicago area from tampered bottles led to a massive recall—and generated fears around candy poisonings.
"This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on human evolution...Paabo has spearheaded research comparing the genome of modern humans and our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, showing that there was mixing between the species."
This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo for his discoveries on human evolution.
Tonight's George H. Rawls, MD Memorial Lecture on the History of Minorities & Medicine, features a presentation and panel discussion with Ezelle Sanford III, PhD, Earle U. Robinsin, MD, Norma Erickson, and Rebecca Robinson on "A Mecca of Minds: St. Louis's Homer G. Phillips Hospital, Racial Segregation, and the Training of Black Medical Specialties" and the connections to Indianapolis. There's still time to sign up, so save your spot now!
Pictured: Earle U. Robinson, Jr., MD; photo courtesy of Rebecca Robinson
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This year's Annual George H. Rawls, MD Memorial Lecture on the History of Minorities & Medicine, features a presentation and panel discussion with Ezelle Sanford III, PhD, Earle U. Robinsin, MD, Norma Erickson, and Rebecca Robinson on "A Mecca of Minds: St. Louis's Homer G. Phillips Hospital, Racial Segregation, and the Training of Black Medical Specialties" and the connections to Indianapolis.
Pictured: Ezelle Sanford III, PhD is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Race, Science, and Society in the Center for Africana Studies at The University of Pennsylvania.
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Are you familiar with the new digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis? You'll love it! Check out their entry on George H. Rawls, MD in whose memory our Annual George H. Rawls, MD Memorial Lecture on the History of Minorities & Medicine is named. Our second annual lecture is coming up this Thursday. Learn more and find out how to register on our website!
(June 2, 1928-May 16, 2020). Born in Gainesville, Florida, George Rawls graduated as the valedictorian from Florida A&M University. He earned his M.D. from Howard University School of Medicine in… Read More »George Rawls
"In American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics, author Kevin Hazzard, a former paramedic, spotlights the Black men in Pittsburgh who pioneered the profession and formed a model for emergency medical services that other cities copied."
In "American Sirens," author Kevin Hazzard spotlights the Black men in Pittsburgh who pioneered America's modern emergency medical service.
Pictured: George H. Rawls , MD, Indiana University Clinical Professor of Surgery and founding director of the Master of Science in Medical Science program at IU School of Medicine, was a pioneer for African American surgeons in the Indianapolis community and a lifelong advocate for advancing minority representation in medicine.
In 2021, the Indiana Medical History Museum has established the Annual George H. Rawls, MD Memorial Lecture on the History of Minorities & Medicine.
This year's lecture features a presentation and panel discussion with Ezelle Sanford III, PhD, Earle U. Robinsin, MD, Norma Erickson, and Rebecca Robinson on "A Mecca of Minds: St. Louis's Homer G. Phillips Hospital, Racial Segregation, and the Training of Black Medical Specialties" and the connections to Indianapolis.
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“The worst epidemics and pandemics have ravaged humanity throughout its existence, but which were the deadliest?”
The worst epidemics and pandemics have ravaged humanity throughout its existence, but which were the deadliest?
Today is World Alzheimer's Day, a day to raise awareness about this devastating neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia. The German neuropathologist and psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) described the first known case of what would become known as Alzheimer's disease in 1906.
Our understanding of the disease and its various forms has improved dramatically since that time, but there's still so much that we don't know. According to the National Institutes of Health, there are currently no approaches that have been proven to effectively treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Many thanks to Rita Kohn at NUVO for covering our upcoming George H. Rawls, MD Memorial Lecture on the History of Minorities and Medicine presented by Dr. Ezelle Sanford III. Save your spot today. Visit our website for more information.
When the Indiana Medical History Museum emailed a message to attend the 2022 George H. Rawls, MD Memorial Lecture on the History of Minorities and Medicine on September 29, at
Join us this morning at 11am for the LAST FREE GARDEN TOUR of the season!
Join us Saturday at 11am: FREE Guided Tour of the IMHM Medicinal Plant Garden!
Our volunteers from the Purdue Master Gardeners of Marion County will once again be offering a FREE guided tour of the Indiana Medical History Museum Medicinal Plant Garden on the first and third Saturdays of the month from June through September.
Come see the newest updates in the garden including additional plants, paved walking paths, and the Vincent Angotti Memorial Fountain!
No reservation is needed, but space may be limited. Meet at the garden entrance arch ten minutes prior to tour start time. Garden tours do not include access to the Museum.
Everything You Didn't Need To Know About Henry VIII's Ulcerated Leg
King Henry VIII has gone down as being one of the greatest medieval villains - a man with a tyrannical attitude and penchant for killing people he disagreed with (executing approximately 57,000 people in his time on the throne). However, it's possible that his inhumane ways may have stemmed from...
“Efficient, double electric pumps are only 30 years young, but contraptions for expressing breast milk have been around for millennia”
Efficient, double electric pumps are only 30 years young, but contraptions for expressing breast milk have been around for millennia
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) History of Genomics Program—the only field-specific history program within the National Institutes of Health (NIH)— celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
In August 2022, NHGRI History of Genomics Program celebrates 10 years of chronicling how the field of genomics began and evolved, with a particular emphasis on the role of NHGRI.
"A limb amputation on a human 31,000 years ago shows an “advanced level of medical expertise developed by early modern human foragers,” reports a new study."
A limb amputation on a human 31,000 years ago shows an “advanced level of medical expertise developed by early modern human foragers,” reports a new study.
A Historian’s Quest to Unravel the Secrets of Mary Seacole, an Innovative, Long-Overlooked Black Nurse
During the Crimean War, the Jamaican businesswoman operated a storehouse and restaurant that offered food, supplies and medicine to British soldiers
Join us Saturday at 11am: FREE Guided Tour of the IMHM Medicinal Plant Garden!
Our volunteers from the Purdue Master Gardeners of Marion County will once again be offering a FREE guided tour of the Indiana Medical History Museum Medicinal Plant Garden on the first and third Saturdays of the month from June through September.
Come see the newest updates in the garden including additional plants, paved walking paths, and the Vincent Angotti Memorial Fountain!
No reservation is needed, but space may be limited. Meet at the garden entrance arch ten minutes prior to tour start time. Garden tours do not include access to the Museum.
Cursing and swearing was an inseparable part of army life. The medical departments were not immune.
Surgeon James L. Dunn confessed in letters to his wife that he said "something like swearing" when an ambulance overturned. It was not the only time Dunn admitted to expressing himself with colorful language.
He was in good company. C.H. Stedman complained that an ambulance driver he met was "the most vulgar, ignorant, profane man I ever came into contact with."
Hospital Steward Spencer Bonsall put it more eloquently when writing of a tired ambulance driver attempting to extricate his wagon from a "slough of despond" who offered "several fervent blessings for Virginia roads, the rebels, spavined horses, and the man that invented the rascally one horse ambulances."
Notes:
Kerr, Paul B., "Civil War Surgeon - Biography of James Langstaff Dunn, M.D.," Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2005, page 81.
C.H. Stedman, Letter to Dr. George H. Gay, September 7, 1862, quoted from Report to Wm. J. Dale, Surgeon General, Massachusetts: Boston, Oct. 1862, by George Henry Gay, Massachusetts: Surgeon General's Office, 1862, page 7.
Bonsall, Spencer, "Well Satisfied with My Position: Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall," Michael A. Flannery and Katherine I. Oomens editors, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2007, pages 36-37.
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"Washington, District of Columbia. Ambulance train at Harewood Hospital. Miller. (v.7, p. 313, Ambulance train at City Point, Va.)," Library of Congress.
"Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their research on French statistician Jacqes Bertillon’s data driven investigation into how many deaths could be associated with the 1889–1890 influenza epidemic in Paris."
Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their research on French statistician Jacqes Bertillon’s data driven inve…
"DOCTORS AND DISTILLERS: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails"...an interview with Camper English.
New book from Camper English is an examination of the interconnected history of alcohol and medicine from ancient times to modern times... revealing how and ...
On August 19, 1888, physician, suffragist, and temperance leader Mary F. Thomas died in Richmond. The North Carolina native married Dr. Owen Thomas and accompanied him to medical lectures. In 1845, she heard Lucretia Mott speak and became a supporter of women’s suffrage. After graduating from Penn Medical University in 1854, she and her husband lived and practiced medicine in Fort Wayne for several years, before moving to Richmond.
In 1859, she became the first woman to address the Indiana General Assembly, alongside Mary Birdsall and Agnes Cook, demanding protection for married women’s property rights and the right to vote. She is also known for providing hospital service during the Civil War, serving as physician for the Home for the Friendless in Nashville, Indiana, and for urging the Indiana State Medical Society to accept women physicians.
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3vNMYLB
The image of Dr. Thomas below is courtesy of Elaine Gepford and the Mincer Family Descendants.
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