AJ Wright

AJ Wright

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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/

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Today’s Find: A 21” Miss Curity Doll from the 1940’s created to promote the Curity line of nursing products; the brand continues today in bandages, diapers, etc from CardinalHealth tinyurl.com/3ucff59h #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today’s Find: “Providence” an American medical TV series with a female physician main character who leaves her practice as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon to return home. Ran from 8 Jan 1999 until 20 Dec 2002 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv tinyurl.com/55v73bjc

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Seale, was the pseudonym of Mary Jane MacPherson (d. 11 March 1974)[1] and A.D.L. MacPherson (d. 30 October 1978), a British writing team of over 45 romance novels from 1932 to 1971 tinyurl.com/ywt7m2ab This one from 1958 #histmed #medicalfiction

1819 July 4: Edward R. Squibb born. His pharmaceutical firm founded in 1858 manufactured medicinal products safer, cleaner and more standardized than most then available. First order was for 18 pounds of chloroform. Squibb died 25 Oct 1900 tinyurl.com/y7vdd28l #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: My son Amos Jasper Wright IV is on the program at Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge Oct 31 with his latest work of fiction “The Battle of Danziger Bridge” tinyurl.com/48439w46 #amosjasperwrightIV #lousianabookfestival #literaryfiction

1941 Oct 23: Mobile, Alabama native Francis Maybrick died in poverty in Connecticut. She spent 14 years in prison in England for the murder of her husband James on 11 May 1889. "Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years" was published in 1904 t.co/grIVy3nT1l #alabama

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We’ve published over 1,800 essays since NC started in 2014! Over the past few weeks our editors have been creating mini-syllabi based on different themes. This week we’re sharing our “The Personal is Historical” Syllabus: nursingclio.org/2026/10/21/t...

nursingclio.orgThe Personal is HistoricalWelcome to the Nursing Clio Mini Syllabi Series! We’ve been publishing essays since 2014, and with over 1,800 essays, we’ve assembled an incredible database of histories of gender and m…

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It’s been two years since the publication of my second book, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. I wrote this book amid the carnage of the COVID-19 pandemic and dedicated it to the memory of a remarkable young man—and every person who has been touched by HIV and AIDS. 🗃️

Today’s Find: “Saturday Evening Post” cover 22 Oct 1949 “Leaving the Hospital” by Stevan Dohanos tinyurl.com/bdnrdhn8 In addition to those for other magazines, Dohanos created 125 Post covers in the 1940's & 1950's #histmed #medicalhistory