Most medical historians agree that one of the most important advances in medicine was the use of...
Medicine
Explore the history of medicine from ancient healing practices to modern breakthroughs — stories of science, struggle, and survival.
During the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests...
Measles cases have spiked as a growing number of anti-vaxxers, opting out of immunizations for their kids,...
Even before the 1952 and 1953 outbreaks, labs had been worked diligently to find a cure for...
Why are prescription drugs so inaccessible and expensive in the United States? By Devin Duffy Rebecca Hovde...
Considered in historical context, Purdue’s plan to peddle opioid addiction medicines to vulnerable people is not so...
Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron. By Amy Lifson A...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
The measles outbreak traced back to Disneyland has spread to eight states, with as many as 95...
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
The London Clinic / Photo by Ben Gilbert, Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons What have snakes, unicorns and...
Patents, patients, and stunted progress in pursuit of the dollar. By Deborah Gleeson and Hazel Moir Efforts...
Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis. By Domenica...
Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons It’s 15 years since England’s last public post-mortem, but what was the history...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
Rebecca Rego Barry on Dr. David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and...
The illustrations in medieval herbals are beautiful and mysterious. But if you know how to read them,...
Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, the Ayurvedic Man picture book presents a visual history...
Saltaire Victorian village – Bradford, Yorkshire, England. UNESCO World Heritage Site As a regional forensic expert, Thomas...
The diagnosis: a skeletal doctor measures a patient’s pulse, L. Crusius / Wellcome Collection, Creative commons Texts that...
An 18th-century trade card reveals a lot more than its owner might have intended. By Julia Nurse...
From hunting rare bugs to harvesting the world’s most expensive plant parts, conservator Cheryl Porter will try...
Dr. David Ayoub, with his chin in his hand, after testifying on behalf of James Duncan during...
A huge expansion of the population of New Orleans created the perfect environment for the spread of...
The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met...
Detail from a coloured etching after C-L. Desrais depicting people gathered around the “baquet” at one of...
Venus’s bathing. (Margate). Side way or any way., Thomas Rowlandson / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Fashionable seaside towns...
The Wizard of Oz promised results he could not deliver but was convincing in his presentation. Diet...
Taming of the Shrew, 1809, by Washington Allston / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Public Domain In Shakespeare’s...
Profile of William Shakespeare, c.1793 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile:...