You can visit a Iron Lung (Draeger, on of the few surviving models in Austria) at our museum...
IFLScience@iflscience.com · last wk.There are very few people left who still use this obsolete technology. www.iflscience.com/paul-alexand...
Freunde der Path.-Anat. Sammlung Wien des NHM - PASW
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Account der Freunde der Path.-Anat. Sammlung Wien des Naturhistorischen Museums - PASW #bsmuseums
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Wisst ihr noch, die große Pest im mittelalterlichen Westberlin, die so viele Hugenotten hinweg raffte? 👻
When someone died at home, the body wasn't necessarily removed immediately. Families commonly washed, dressed, and prepared their deceased relatives for burial. In some cases, this arrangement lasted for days. #Victorian #history #Halloween #goth
Children could find themselves sleeping beside brothers or sisters suffering from tuberculosis, scarlet fever, or other potentially fatal illnesses. Sometimes, a family member died during the night while sharing a bed with relatives. #Victorian #history #Halloween #goth
In industrial cities, some working-class families lived in single-room dwellings where parents, children, and sometimes grandparents ate, worked, and slept together. When someone became seriously ill, there was usually nowhere else to place them. #Victorian #history #Halloween #goth
Did you know? In the Victorian era, families were so accustomed to living alongside death that they sometimes shared beds with dead or dying relatives? For poor families living in overcrowded conditions, there was little separation between the living, the dying, and the dead. #Victorian #history
4) It is, however, an excellent time for students to educate themselves about the basics of #PublicHealth & how systems of disease surveillance work. There's a regularly updated bibliography on historical pandemics (see ALT-TEXT). And find good PH people to follow, like @helenbranswell.bsky.social.
3) If they ask, "Is this related to the Black Death?," we need to (a) remind ourselves that we don't yet have specifics about this case (incl. whether this is really Y. pestis), but (b) strains descended from the late medieval proliferation of plague do still persist in the region. This is not news.
2) If this is plague, then it's important to point out that plague (unlike smallpox) was never eradicated. We still live w/ it in many natural environments (including in the U.S.), & that's why we *want* on-going research. The circumstances of this Russian lab accident remain to be clarified.
#MedievalSky In case your students this week come in w/ questions about the Russian plague case currently in the news, you can tell them: 1) if this is plague (Yersinia pestis), there is nothing unusual about it (a) being in Russia or (b) being the subject of lab research. Plague is worldwide.
@nytimes.com: Please engage w/ historians. This account comes from ONE source, someone who never set foot out of Italy, let alone witnessed the plague outbreak at Caffa. The fiction was definitively refuted in 2021: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #BlackDeath #historiography
Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain, Embargoes, and Yersinia pestis in the Black Sea, 1346–48 | Speculum: Vol 96, No 1
Abstract:When, how, and why did the Black Death reach Europe? Historians have relied on Gabriele de’ Mussi’s account of Tatars catapulting plague-infested bodies into the besieged city of Caffa on the...
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parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... Flann O'Brien published his Cruiskeen Lawn article on October 4th, 1940. For this reason, we cite an article which connects our museum with the famous Irish literate @flannobriensoc.bsky.social
Atomic Theory by Osmosis, or, Mozart and a Sausage: Tracing the Molecules of Flann O’Brien’s Scientific Satires back to Aldous Huxley
This article broadens the connections between Flann O’Brien and Aldous Huxley beyond the Philip Quarles-inspired novel within a novel format of At Swim-Two-Birds. It posits that Huxley’s mode of satir...
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Riesiges Publikumsinteresse bei der Langen Nacht der Museen
Something not so we'll known from Benjamin Franklin and his connection to anatomy benjaminfranklinhouse.org/the-house-be...
Craven Street Bones – Benjamin Franklin House
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Wer eine Eiserne Lunge sehen möchte: im Narrenturm gibt's Gelegenheit Alles Geschichte - Der History-Podcast: ABENTEUER MEDIZIN - In der Eisernen Lunge Webseite der Episode: www.br.de/mediathek/po... Mediendatei: media.neuland.br.de/file/2122459...
Podcast: ABENTEUER MEDIZIN - In der Eisernen Lunge
Sie wirkt wie ein metallener Sarg: Die Eiserne Lunge gilt als eines der ersten klinischen Geräte zur Beatmung von Patienten. Als während der Polio-Epidemie in den 1950er-Jahren massenhaft Menschen an ...
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The museum charting how humans understand the world. Beautiful, surreal and eerily empty, Vienna's Globe Museum the only public museum on Earth dedicated to globes, and it – quite literally – tells the story of our world. www.bbc.com/travel/artic... #globalmuseum #museums #Vienna #travel #globes
Educational materials used in the 19th century to popularize science through the magic lantern. A mahogany case containing a series of glass plates mounted on wooden frames with mechanisms, it illustrates various phenomena of the Solar System. @foticoscollection #globalmuseum #Victorian #education
These giant African rats sniff out tuberculosis in 3 seconds flat, work microscopes take a full day to do. APOPO's HeroRATs are already saving lives across Africa and Asia.
Almost 110 participants at the lecture about Beethoven's illnesses at the Pathological-anatomical Collection Vienna
Can anybody at @currentarchaeology.bsky.social get back to me about a statement made in this piece yesterday? the-past.com/feature/crac.... I wanted to confirm the claim that a 13th-century case of "plague" had been found at Poulton, Cheshire.
Cracking the genetic code: Illuminating the past and informing the present with ancient DNA
Pioneering research in the Francis Crick Institute’s Ancient Genomics Lab is boosting our understanding of past populations, people, and pathogens. Carly Hilts spoke to Tom Booth and Kat Nilsson and e...
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A tl;dr summary of the following 🧵: the recovery of smallpox aDNA from an early modern Chilean site is a VERY IMPORTANT milestone in the history of this global disease--still the only human disease to be completely eradicated. My reservation is whether claims of a European source are supported.
Did you know? In the Victorian era, some of the poorest families purchased a type of meat known as broxy, which came from the flesh of sheep that had died from disease rather than being slaughtered for food. Broxy could often be purchased for far less than ordinary mutton. #Victorian #history
www.kakanien-revisited.at/beitr/vamp/C... Vampyrism and Habsburg monarchy @emory-f8.bsky.social, you will love it
Der klassische Vampyr als Geschöpf der slawischen Mythologie fand nach ersten schriftlichen Erwähnungen im 14. Jahrhundert erst zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhundert eine europaweite Beachtung, als zwischen 1709 und 1732 im Grenzgebiet zwischen dem Habsburger und dem Osmanischen Reich wiederkehrende Seuchen mit einem charakteristischen Erscheinungsbild auftraten, deren medizinische Hintergründe den dort stationierten Militärärzten unbekannt waren, während die ortsansässige rumänisch-slawische Bevölkerung darin die Folgen des Wirkens von Vampyren wieder erkannte.
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Did you know? In the Victorian era, Spain became the site of one of the world's first large-scale vaccination campaigns against a bacterial disease. Dr. Jaume Ferran i Clua developed an experimental cholera vaccine and used it to inoculate about 30,000 to 50,000 people. #Victorian #history
