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‘Cabinet of Materia Medica for the Major Examination Published by Evans, Lescher and Evans, London; and Evans, Sons and Co, Liverpool’ Circa 1860 - 1880 https://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/artwork-detail/814272/18676/victorian-mahogany-cased-cabinet-of #histsci #histmed #histpharma #histedu

Le médecin en musicien ? Un rapprochement moins étrange qu'il n'y paraît, à une époque où les montres n'avaient pas de trotteuses pour objectiver la fréquence d'un pouls. https://books.google.fr/books?id=halGAAAAcAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA1#v=onepage #histsci #histmed #histtech #histmus

Petite histoire de la désinfection du courrier : https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/01/history-of-disinfected-mail.html #histmed #histsante

Enfin disponible en ligne : la thèse "Génie de la collection et échanges savants au XVIIe siècle, le modèle social et la symbolique culturelle du cabinet de curiosités" de Lorenzo Cirrincione ! #histsci #histmed #histnat #materialCulture #materialhistory #histart #collections

Mot du jour : Ophtalmofantôme. https://numerabilis.u-pariscite.fr/s/numerabilis/item/5641001 #motdujour #histmed #PSTN

"Milk sickness is a kind of poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol." "Dr. Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby is credited with identifying the plant in the 1830s. Legend has it that she was taught about the plant's properties by a Shawnee woman." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sickness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima#Toxicity #histsci #histnat #histmed #womeninSTEM