Entrance to Boerhaave Museum, Leiden, Netherlands / Photo by Erik Zachte, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. H.G. (Rina) Knoeff /...
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Compiled by Jenny Goellnitz An Introduction to Civil War Medicine During the 1860s, doctors had yet to...
Trapped by the Cold War and scarred after a failed revolution, Hungary fought one of its greatest...
A page from the journal of Henry Walsh Mahon showing the effects of scurvy, from his time...
Poseidon taking chocolate from Mexico to Europe, a detail from the frontispiece to Chocolata Inda by Antonio Colmenero de...
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Elisa Lazarri / 01.16.2018 Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Sciences Cornell University “Rampant” and “elderly”...
Map of Northern France from Calais in the north to Paris in the south in 1811. Image...
Portrait of Vesalius featured in De Humani Corporis Fabrica / U.S. National Library of Medicine City streets, a...
Denis Burkitt / Wellcome Library Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911-1993), while posted at the Mulago Hospital and Makerere Medical...
Image of banking from a medieval illuminated manuscript By Robert Naranjo / 01.10.2008 Modern banking has its...
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus...
In the age of social media, fears and rumors about outbreaks and epidemics can quickly spread out...
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in...
Photo from Max Pixel By Dolly Stolze / 10.31.2017 For me, zombies are probably the scariest of the...
At Radcliffe’s Science Symposium, “Contagion: Exploring Modern Epidemics,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett said there is need...
An illustrated depiction of a scene of Lincoln lying in state. Internet Archive Book Images By Dr. Brian...
A pair of identical twins. The one on the right has OCD, while the one on the...
The unlikely coincidence of a local hospital record and a census led by a pioneering physician has...
Ambroise Paré, Les œuures d’Ambroise Paré, conseiller, et premier chirurgien du roy (Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1579), pp....
Jean Fee shows photos from her time as a nurse midwife for the Frontier Nursing Service. /...
A quantum dot: A high-resolution transmission electron micrograph of cadmium telluride nanoparticles. (The scale bar in the...