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Treasures of the P.I. Nixon Archives - Page 2 of 5 - UT Health Science Center Library
Ether. The photographic image, probably made between 1855 and 1860, was staged to portray Dr. Crawford Long’s original discovery and use of anesthesia. The image shows a surgeon ostensibly preparing to amputate, an anesthetist monitoring the patient’s pulse and administering ether on a cloth, and an assistant standing by with instruments.
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1858 - Florence Nightingale. Photo not discovered until 2006. Florence Nightingale is one of nursing’s most important figures. She gained worldwide attention for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War. She was dubbed “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night to tend to injured soldiers. Early photographs of Florence Nightingale are very rare because she was extremely reluctant to be photographed, partly for religious reasons
drapetomania
Drapetomania (1851), also called draptomania, is a sickness of the mind that makes you want to run away. It affects only black people. It was especially common in the American South in the antebellum early 1800's. The condition did not have a name till Dr Samuel Cartwright gave it one in 1851. It is now widely believed that only blacks got the disease because only they were held as slaves. Their urge to run away was not a disease at all but a very healthy and human desire for freedom.
The Chatham Theatre was a playhouse on the southeast side of Chatham Street (now Park Row) in New York City. It was located at numbers 143-9, between Roosevelt and James streets, a few blocks south of the Bowery. At its opening in 1839, the Chatham was a neighborhood establishment, which featured big-name actors and drama. By the mid-1840s, it had become primarily a venue for blackface minstrel shows. A. H. Purdy. He staged productions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin beginning in 18
The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second only in popularity to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
On the theory and practice of midwifery : Churchill, Fleetwood, 1808-1878 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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