Edward Jenner, who pioneered vaccination, and two colleagues (right) seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, with the dead...
Medicine
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...
The Plague at Ashdod, by Nicolas Poussin / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The word influenza is derived from the...
By Dr. Gabrielle Chapman / 06.23.2015 Associate Dean, Graduate School Syracuse University In September 1955 at the...
A horse-drawn Vancouver General Hospital ambulance / City of Vancouver Archives, Public Domain The story of an amazing man...
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut...
Kunstmuseum St Gallen/Wikimedia Commons If the thought of undergoing surgery fills you with dread, spare a thought for...
Bloodletting was treatment for infection in the past. Wellcome Library, London, CC BY While some ancient therapies proved effective enough...
Drawn directly from the flesh. Public Domain Review/Flickr, CC BY-SA By Dr. Richard Gunderman / 12.31.2014 Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts,...
Not the one we have fixed in our imaginations. Peter Paul Rubens, 1638 Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer ofrationality and fount of eternal...
A baby with an encephalocele. Photograph by F.A. Hudson, 1869. Wellcome Library reference no. 34335i.3. By Dr. William...
The Battle of Waterloo, by William Sadler / Wikimedia Commons By Julia Nurse / 06.18.2015 Collections Researcher...
By Dr. Jane Draycott / 05.17.2017 Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Classics: Ancient Science and...
Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily...
What will it take to finish polio off in the last three countries where it persists? AP Photo/B.K....
A prisoner looks out a window on March 26, 2015, from Zhdanivskaya prison in Ukraine, were TB...
Researchers from the UK & Japan have identified how the brain’s natural painkilling system could be used...