AJ Wright
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social
Interested in medical history, Alabama history & culture & the price of hard-boiled noir in China. Lots of my Alabama history stuff can be found at https://alabamayesterdays.blogspot.com/
Today’s Alabama Book: New collection of seven Jim Hanvey stories by prolific Alabama author Octavus Roy Cohen. He lived in Birmingham during the 1920’s & 1930’s tinyurl.com/2yds98zu #birminghamalabama #alabama
January 19, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Alabama Book: New collection of seven Jim Hanvey stories by prolific Alabama author Octavus Roy Cohen. He lived in Birmingham during the 1920’s & 1930’s tinyurl.com/2yds98zu #birminghamalabama #alabama
Today's Find: "Slaves to the Drug of Dreams" i.e., chloroform & its "Beauteous Visions" NY Journal 19 Jan 1896 tinyurl.com/y3rowszk That article nearby "Slay People for Their Fat" in Sierra Leone is pretty weird, too #histmed #medicalhistory #addiction
January 19, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Today's Find: "Slaves to the Drug of Dreams" i.e., chloroform & its "Beauteous Visions" NY Journal 19 Jan 1896 tinyurl.com/y3rowszk That article nearby "Slay People for Their Fat" in Sierra Leone is pretty weird, too #histmed #medicalhistory #addiction
1819 Aug 25: James Watt died. Among his other accomplishments, he helped support the gas inhalation research of Thomas Beddoes & Humphry Davy 1799-1800 in Bristol tinyurl.com/mpzkwrq & tinyurl.com/57nj4v3m Born 19 Jan 1736 #histmed #medicalhistory
January 19, 2026 at 1:04 PM
1819 Aug 25: James Watt died. Among his other accomplishments, he helped support the gas inhalation research of Thomas Beddoes & Humphry Davy 1799-1800 in Bristol tinyurl.com/mpzkwrq & tinyurl.com/57nj4v3m Born 19 Jan 1736 #histmed #medicalhistory
Today’s Find: ARB Munro’s short story “Wourali [curare]: A Tale of British Guiana” in “Chamber’s Journal” 19 Jan 1896 tinyurl.com/hjrwfhdh Curare later the basis of muscle relaxants in anesthesia tinyurl.com/46886hp6 #histmed #anesthesiahistory #medicalhistory
January 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Today’s Find: ARB Munro’s short story “Wourali [curare]: A Tale of British Guiana” in “Chamber’s Journal” 19 Jan 1896 tinyurl.com/hjrwfhdh Curare later the basis of muscle relaxants in anesthesia tinyurl.com/46886hp6 #histmed #anesthesiahistory #medicalhistory
1809 Jan 19: Edgar Allen Poe was born. Wrote 3 stories featuring mesmerism bit.ly/179dq4P Wrote some other stuff, too. Died 7 Oct 1849 #histmed #medicalhistory #mesmerism
January 19, 2026 at 12:50 PM
1809 Jan 19: Edgar Allen Poe was born. Wrote 3 stories featuring mesmerism bit.ly/179dq4P Wrote some other stuff, too. Died 7 Oct 1849 #histmed #medicalhistory #mesmerism
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Magnolia Memory"
January 19, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Magnolia Memory"
"Jack and Jill" Jan 1959. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_an... Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription at tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine
January 18, 2026 at 4:47 PM
"Jack and Jill" Jan 1959. This "better magazine for boys & girls" began in 1938 & continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_an... Alabama Yesterday blog posts on a childhood subscription at tinyurl.com/3xvzyar7 & tinyurl.com/yvfxkdwf #alabamayesterdays #childrensmagazine
Today's Vintage Book Cover: By way of T.S. Eliot? Isabel Stewart Way published a number of romances, including medical. This one from 1962 tinyurl.com/bdf3u4p7 #histmed #medicalhistory
January 18, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Today's Vintage Book Cover: By way of T.S. Eliot? Isabel Stewart Way published a number of romances, including medical. This one from 1962 tinyurl.com/bdf3u4p7 #histmed #medicalhistory
1779 Jan 18: Peter Mark Roget was born in London. He worked with Thomas Beddoes & Humphry Davy on nitrous oxide experiments in Bristol in 1799, long before he began work on his thesaurus tinyurl.com/y9hrsvtk & tinyurl.com/56rp3vmy #histmed Died 17 Sept 1869
January 18, 2026 at 12:46 PM
1779 Jan 18: Peter Mark Roget was born in London. He worked with Thomas Beddoes & Humphry Davy on nitrous oxide experiments in Bristol in 1799, long before he began work on his thesaurus tinyurl.com/y9hrsvtk & tinyurl.com/56rp3vmy #histmed Died 17 Sept 1869
1913 Jan 18: Actor Danny Kaye born. Repairs a malfunctioning anesthesia machine with a pen in the 1947 film "Secret Life of Walter Mitty" bit.ly/1xAz0Ld He died 3 Mar 1987 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
January 18, 2026 at 12:43 PM
1913 Jan 18: Actor Danny Kaye born. Repairs a malfunctioning anesthesia machine with a pen in the 1947 film "Secret Life of Walter Mitty" bit.ly/1xAz0Ld He died 3 Mar 1987 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Remembering Charles Hubbert” tinyurl.com/y3p34ckz #Alabama #alabamaarchaeology #alabamayesterdays
January 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Remembering Charles Hubbert” tinyurl.com/y3p34ckz #Alabama #alabamaarchaeology #alabamayesterdays
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Fish Tail I & II"
January 17, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Fish Tail I & II"
1790 Apr 17: Ben Franklin died. He was a participant in the first investigation of Franz Mesmer's "animal magnetism" claims. Did some other stuff, too tinyurl.com/3xeetsy7 Born 17 Jan 1706 #histmed #medicalhistory
January 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM
1790 Apr 17: Ben Franklin died. He was a participant in the first investigation of Franz Mesmer's "animal magnetism" claims. Did some other stuff, too tinyurl.com/3xeetsy7 Born 17 Jan 1706 #histmed #medicalhistory
Today’s Find: Newspaper item 17 Jan 1921 “Inject Ether into Veins of Patient” tinyurl.com/yc3uf2to “New Method of Producing Anaesthesia” at Elm Hill Hospital in Boston #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
January 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Today’s Find: Newspaper item 17 Jan 1921 “Inject Ether into Veins of Patient” tinyurl.com/yc3uf2to “New Method of Producing Anaesthesia” at Elm Hill Hospital in Boston #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
1637 Sept 8: English physician Robert Fludd died. One of the earliest to time the pulse bit.ly/1rELdv8 Supported William Harvey's blood circulation idea. Born 17 Jan 1574 #histmed #medicalhistory
January 17, 2026 at 12:57 PM
1637 Sept 8: English physician Robert Fludd died. One of the earliest to time the pulse bit.ly/1rELdv8 Supported William Harvey's blood circulation idea. Born 17 Jan 1574 #histmed #medicalhistory
2010 Jan 17: Author Eric Segal died tinyurl.com/yc9b536z Best known for his novel "Love Story" he also published "Doctors" in 1988 that follows the fictional members of the Harvard Medical School class of 1962 tinyurl.com/ycoltpq2 He was born 16 June 1937 #histmed #medicalhistory #ericsegal
January 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM
2010 Jan 17: Author Eric Segal died tinyurl.com/yc9b536z Best known for his novel "Love Story" he also published "Doctors" in 1988 that follows the fictional members of the Harvard Medical School class of 1962 tinyurl.com/ycoltpq2 He was born 16 June 1937 #histmed #medicalhistory #ericsegal
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Still Life with Flowers I"
January 17, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Still Life with Flowers I"
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama Book Store: Anders in Auburn” tinyurl.com/zyeb9emr #auburnalabama #alabama #alabamabookstore #alabamayesterdays
January 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama Book Store: Anders in Auburn” tinyurl.com/zyeb9emr #auburnalabama #alabama #alabamabookstore #alabamayesterdays
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😀 It has been a while since posting last about mosasaurs, but this one was my second best Alabama mosasaur find of 2025. There is more of the jaw and skull but these are the best teeth. Late Cretaceous (Campanian). Specimen: University of Alabama Museums paleontology coll. #FossilFriday‼️ #fossil
January 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM
😀 It has been a while since posting last about mosasaurs, but this one was my second best Alabama mosasaur find of 2025. There is more of the jaw and skull but these are the best teeth. Late Cretaceous (Campanian). Specimen: University of Alabama Museums paleontology coll. #FossilFriday‼️ #fossil
Today’s Find: “University Hospital” is a 1995 American medical TV drama focused on four student nurses tinyurl.com/krwm86fp & tinyurl.com/wnffvh35 Nine episodes broadcast between 16 Jan & 1 May #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
January 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Today’s Find: “University Hospital” is a 1995 American medical TV drama focused on four student nurses tinyurl.com/krwm86fp & tinyurl.com/wnffvh35 Nine episodes broadcast between 16 Jan & 1 May #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
Today’s Find: 16 Jan 1931 Calif. newspaper article “Local Man is Visitor at His Own Operation” while under spinal anesthesia tinyurl.com/ybzvwm63 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Today’s Find: 16 Jan 1931 Calif. newspaper article “Local Man is Visitor at His Own Operation” while under spinal anesthesia tinyurl.com/ybzvwm63 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
Today's Find: Jan 16, 1851 Augusta [Georgia] Daily Chronicle & Sentinel newspaper article describing 27 cases of chloroform use in NY by Drs Barnes & Sacks tinyurl.com/yd4g3t6x #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
January 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Today's Find: Jan 16, 1851 Augusta [Georgia] Daily Chronicle & Sentinel newspaper article describing 27 cases of chloroform use in NY by Drs Barnes & Sacks tinyurl.com/yd4g3t6x #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "His Favorite Redhead"
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "His Favorite Redhead"
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Pansy Round"
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Over 1000 works created by Huntsville, Alabama artist Carolyn Shores Wright [1929-2023] available on Fine Art America for prints, coffee mugs, etc carolynshores-wright.pixels.com Painted mostly in watercolor for 50 yrs. "Pansy Round"
Today’s Find: Chloroform bottle from the Charles Pfizer & Co, NYC. Found on Pinterest tinyurl.com/yccypc9h Firm established in 1849 tinyurl.com/yc5mws2j #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
January 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Today’s Find: Chloroform bottle from the Charles Pfizer & Co, NYC. Found on Pinterest tinyurl.com/yccypc9h Firm established in 1849 tinyurl.com/yc5mws2j #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory