Disease – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:40:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Disease – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com 32 32 How Cell-Based Research Is Transforming Our Understanding of Disease https://brewminate.com/how-cell-based-research-is-transforming-our-understanding-of-disease/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:34:43 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279880 Understanding how diseases develop, progress, and respond to treatment is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine.

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]]> What if the Black Death Had Killed 90 Percent of Europeans? https://brewminate.com/what-if-black-death-killed-90-percent/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:47:31 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279431 If the Black Death had killed nine Europeans in ten, abundant land might have offered little security. Europe’s

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]]> A Charlatan and a Cancer Claim: Harry Hoxsey’s War with American Medicine https://brewminate.com/harry-hoxsey-suppressed-cancer-cure/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:16:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=277970 Harry Hoxsey never produced credible evidence that his herbal tonic cured cancer, but every prosecution helped turn medical

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]]> The Smallpox Epidemic and Vaccine Response That Drove Montreal to Riot in 1885 https://brewminate.com/montreal-smallpox-riot-1885/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:26:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=277713 In 1885, a vaccine-safety failure turned Montreal’s smallpox epidemic into a crisis of trust, giving rumor new force

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]]> The Plague Crossed the Door: Ibn al-Khatib and the Medieval Case for Contagion https://brewminate.com/the-plague-crossed-the-door-ibn-al-khatib-and-the-medieval-case-for-contagion/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:58:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=277640 During Granada’s Black Death, Ibn al-Khatib argued that plague followed people, garments, and possessions, forcing observation into conflict

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]]> No Divine Disease: The Hippocratic Writer Who Took on Epilepsy’s Sacred Healers https://brewminate.com/hippocratic-sacred-disease-epilepsy/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:26:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=277550 Around 400 BCE, an anonymous Hippocratic writer rejected divine explanations for epilepsy, traced it to the brain, and

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]]> Ravenous Natures: Beastly Representations of Cancer in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras https://brewminate.com/ravenous-natures-beastly-representations-of-cancer-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-eras/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:28:26 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=274421 Early modern English medicine imagined cancer through ravenous animals, especially wolves and worms, turning disease into a terrifying

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]]> Knives, Caustics, and Morphine: Cancer Care in the Victorian Era https://brewminate.com/treating-cancer-victorian-era/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:27:41 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=274538 Victorian cancer treatment mixed ambition with agony: radical surgery, caustic pastes, opiates, nursing, and desperate cures at the

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]]> The Bite That Meant Death: Rabies before Modern Medicine https://brewminate.com/rabies-ancient-medieval-history-disease/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:02:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=271891 Ancient and medieval observers recognized rabies in animals and understood the danger of their bites, yet every attempted

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]]> The Killer That Made Henry VIII Flee: The English Sweat https://brewminate.com/sweating-sickness-tudor-england-english-sweat/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=271903 The English sweating sickness struck Tudor England with terrifying speed, killing within hours and defying explanation before vanishing

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