Renaissance anatomist, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendende, was born 20 May 1537 #histsci #histmed
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/jerry-the-builder-from-the-waterfall/
You can read a summary of Nolan et al. (2025) work here https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/medieval-man-with-crippled-knee-reveals-disability-care/; the full #openaccess article is here https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2025-0043/html
#bioarchaeology #osteology #medieval #histmed (4/4)
"L'adultère est entré chez nous avec ses gros sabots, familier, grossier obligatoire comme la rougeole."
Obligatoire comme la rougeole... (1965)
#histsci #histmed
https://www.babelio.com/livres/Groult-Le-feminin-pluriel/34208#
"By early modern Roman law, persons born deaf, if they could neither speak nor write, could not make their last will and testament. In the event recounted here, thanks to a coordinated effort by her family, her advocates, papal officialdom, her beneficiaries, and Magdalena herself, the formally impossible proved possible."
#dishist #histmed #histdroit
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/abs/magdalena-deaf-and-mute-makes-her-roman-will-1590/D9A3913B6EC8509228EE56BA48181EE7
"Pendant plus de deux millénaires, les termes d’hydropisie, anasarque, voire leucophlegmasie ont qualifié un état d’œdèmes généralisés. Bien que non spécifique, cela correspond le plus souvent à ce qui est dénommé, de nos jours, l’insuffisance cardiaque congestive."
Mot du jour / Word of the day : Anasarque / Anasarca, œdème sévère et généralisé produisant un gonflement diffus des tissus.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasarque #histmed
It's the spring 40% off sale at the University of California Press! All month! All books 40% off for books shipped to addresses in the US and Canada! Free shipping starts at not much ($40?)
Is this the perfect time to buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY? Enter the code MAY40 at the checkout when ordering directly from the press. #books #history #science #politics #histsci #histmed.
"Quand la civilisation actuelle comparaitra au tribunal de l’histoire pour avoir tué, détruit, laissé mourir, par tous les moyens possibles, mêmes administratifs son avocat, comme circonstance atténuante, fera valoir la CHÈVRE-NOURRICE."
https://bibliotheque.academie-medecine.fr/correspondance-1892/
#histmed #histsci #animhist
Des rats pesteux peints par Poussin dans sa Peste d’Asdod (1630).
#animhist #histmed #sciart
https://www.nicolas-poussin.com/oeuvres/peste-asdod/
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Peste_d%27Asdod
Collab improbable Pavlov x Hippocrate : les quatre "types nerveux".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_typology
#histsci #histmed #animhist
"Pavlov’s experiments were funded in part by the public sale of the gastric juice of dogs as a cure for chronic indigestion in humans."
#TIL #histsci #histmed
https://kingdomofdogs.org.uk/gastric-juice-for-sale
Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA - 
#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #MastoArt
à ne pas confondre avec
Word of the day: Proband, individu sujet d'une recherche en génétique.
du latin probandus, de probare (examiner, (é)prouver, juger).
https://www.etymonline.com/word/proband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proband
#motdujour #wordoftheday #histmed
Word of the day: Probang, outil médical long et flexible utilisé pour retirer des corps étrangers de l'oesophage ou les pousser vers l'estomac.
Amis toubibs, connaissez-vous une traduction française ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probang
Image via https://x.com/surgeonshall/status/1909531672271339676/photo/1
#motdujour #wordoftheday #histmed
“Anywhere you have categories, you also have monsters.” On Sunday with Steve Rainey for #BBC Radio Ulster, I talked about why people invent monsters. Begins at 43:05 minutes. 1/n
#ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sunday with Steven Rainey - G2...
Heute vor 185 Jahren starb der britische Künstler William Heath, bekannt v.a. für seine Radierungen, Karikaturen & politische Cartoons. Ein Ausschnitt eines seiner Werke schmückt das Frontcover von #WerkstattGeschichte 78/2018 "krank machen": "Monster soup commonly called Thames water ...", 1828.
Zugleich ein Lesetipp am #Weltgesundheitstag: 
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/krank-machen/
Sourire du jour : #histsci #histmed #histchem
Pour les curieux
- green vitriol = sulfate de fer hydraté
- spirit of harthorn = esprit (=distillat) de corne de cerf = ammoniaque
- brimstone = soufre
- quicksilver = vif-argent = mercure
- aquafortis = eau-forte des graveurs = acide nitrique.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/humourous
#Agenda 1er mai, 9h-17h : Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century,
Free and Online One-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop http://histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/04/contagion-et-contamination-au-xixe.html
#histsci #histlitt #histmed
Der japanische Mediziner & Anthropologe Buntaro Adachi starb heute vor 80 Jahren. Er untersuchte als erster Zusammenhänge von Ohrenschmalzkonsistenz & Achselschweißgeruch – kein Aprilscherz! Was dies mit "Rassenphysiologie" zu tun hat, erklärt:
Julia Gebke, Achselschweiß und Ohrenschmalz: #Medizin und #Anthropologie zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 87/2023, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-87-julia-gebke/
Unser neues Heft #WerkstattGeschichte 91 "körpermaße" ist erschienen! 1/
Im Thementeil, hg. v. Cornelia Aust, geht es diesmal um das Vermessen & Vergleichen von Körpermerkmalen v.a. im 18./19. Jh. Wie trug dies dazu bei, geschlechtsspezifische & rassistische Differenz herzustellen und so Körpereigenschaften zu essenzialisieren?
