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Medicine
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:...
Grants and Oddities. This patient is shown to have sprouted vegetable offshoots after taking 132 boxes of vegetable...
In Ancient Greek texts, the king Lycaon is punished for misdeeds by being turned into a wolf....
Balgo artists: Miriam Baadjo (b. 1957),Tossie Baadjo (b. 1958), Jane Gimme (b. 1958), Gracie Mosquito (b. 1955),...
Left: Sumerian medical clay tablet – Medical clay tablet from Nippur dated to about 2200 BC is...
Everett Historical / Shutterstock The 1918 pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” or the “Spanish Lady.” By...
An unhealed gash on the forehead suggests that the man died a violent death, perhaps in battle....
Edward Jenner, who pioneered vaccination, and two colleagues (right) seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, with the dead...
With the rapid pace of vaccine development in recent decades, the historic origins of immunization are often...
In May 1796, Edward Jenner was asked to inoculate an eight-year-old pauper child named James Phipps. By...
From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine...
Hippocrates, the “father of medicine” / Public Domain By the 5th century BCE, there were attempts to identify...
Dated to the New Kingdom (c. 1570 – c. 1069 BCE), and specifically to c. 1200 BCE, the text...
Alexandria – View of ruins of the Serapeum from Pompey’s Pillar / Photo by Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia...
The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wikimedia...
EPB/35960/A: François Mauriceau, The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed...
Blessing from the Medicine Man, Howard Terpning®, 2011 / The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Native American concepts of health...
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in...
Voynich Manuscript. / Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Wikimedia Commons Can we hope to find new remedies by...
An illustrated scene at Bedlam from Hogarth’s series of paintings ‘A Rake’s Progress’ / Wikimedia Commons A history...
M0004635 Fragment of bas-relief in the from of a temple / Wellcome Library Ancient Greek philosophy and...
A Neolithic (3500 BCE) skull showing evidence of a trephination operation – the removal of a part of the cranium to...