Bubonic plague killed more than 25 million people, or at least one third, of Europe’s population during...
History of Disease
Trade and commerce brought enriching effects, but undesirable phenomena such as disease were also transmitted on a...
As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as an historian, he searched for...
The idea that the royal touch could cure the infection persisted for 1,200 years down through the...
Scientific disciplines which study traditional medicine include herbalism, ethnomedicine, ethnobotany, and medical anthropology. Introduction Traditional medicine (also known...
Nurses have always been at the forefront during war, epidemics, and other times of disaster. May 12...
A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat. Tom...