It was not until the Persian Invasion of 525 BCE that a cash economy was instituted in...
History
The relationship between cocaine and medical practitioners in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Introduction Cocaine is...
How medical pioneers and health innovations shaped the landscape of medicine in the 19th century during disease...
Disease is thought to be caused by intrusion or soul loss, evil spirits, sorcerers, or broken taboos....
This would have been placed in a grave to embody the shaman’s power that would help the...
Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The Hippocratic philosophy on health care provision applied standards and ethical rules that are still valid today....
From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphed. Not malaria. Not cholera. Not AIDS, influenza, measles, or...
Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic. On September 12, 1918, Dr. Royal S. Copeland put the...
The toxic properties of arsenic were known by Hippocrates in 370 BCE. By John Frith Introduction Arsenic...
In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
Scurvy killed more than two million sailors between the time of Columbus’s transatlantic voyage and the rise...
The Code of Hammurabi and writings from ancient Greeks mention this “lung wasting” disease and their treatments...
Civil disobedience can be distinguished from other active forms of protest, such as rioting, because of its...
Lela Mae and the others were unwitting pawns in a segregationist game. Introduction After three days on...
Russians refer to the event as the “Caribbean Crisis.” Cubans refer to it as the “October Crisis.”...
The use of forced labor and the development of labor camps to “re-educate” anyone deemed as “bourgeois”...
The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together...
Great Britain hoped that the Intolerable Acts would isolate radicals in Massachusetts and cause American colonists to...
While tremendously popular in Britain, George was hated by rebellious American colonists. Introduction George III (George William...
The establishment of petroleum as a tradable commodity and natural resource triggered a paradigm shift in the...
Mechanical machinery in the medieval centuries used innovative sources of energy to generate motion and mechanical power....
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....
Mark Antony, one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic, offered the nation’s elected leader,...
His work catapulted Powers to international fame in the 19th century. Introduction They say Ideal beauty cannot...
Phips became governor of Massachusetts, arriving in Boston from England in May 1692, with the witch-hunt well...
The notion of religious liberty and of freedom of conscience was not recognized. Introduction Inquisition, (capitalized I)...
Christianity began in first century C.E. Jerusalem as a Jewish sect, but quickly spread throughout the Roman...
One of the earliest creatures to appear in the tales and legends of ancient China, the dragon...
The tlacuilo (codex painter) tradition endured the transition to colonial culture. Introduction Aztec codices (singular codex) are...