Most alternative medicines and therapies do no better than a properly controlled placebo group. So a lot...
Medicine
In this period, hospitals preserved both the symbolic and material link to the Church and religion, based...
Examining the type of anesthesia and techniques employed to prepare patients for invasive surgery in ancient Rome....
We should take a hard look at how each of us may be undermining community health in...
James Graham, founder of the Temple of Health, benefitted from his undeniable flair for showmanship and his...
The history of surgery is a fascinating collection of knowledge from various civilizations dating back up to...
Reviewing the great surgical advances in the United States in the last century. By Dr. Yeu-Tsu Margaret...
Rasse des Noeux was a considerable bibliophile and man of letters. Why do we often sign and...
Retracing the history of media technologies in the practice of medicine. Reba Benschoter readied herself to speak...
She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but...
Most medical historians agree that one of the most important advances in medicine was the use of...
During the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests...
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...
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...
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...
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...