Harry Hoxsey never produced credible evidence that his herbal tonic cured cancer, but every prosecution helped turn...
Medicine
Follow humanity’s changing efforts to understand illness and preserve life. These histories examine healers and patients across centuries while revealing how knowledge, belief, institutions, and inequality shaped the practice of medicine.
Rio’s smallpox vaccine worked, but the state imposed it through institutions already associated with demolition, forced removal,...
People relied on plants to treat sickness long before modern pharmacies opened their doors. Early civilizations experimented...
During Granada’s Black Death, Ibn al-Khatib argued that plague followed people, garments, and possessions, forcing observation into...
Around 400 BCE, an anonymous Hippocratic writer rejected divine explanations for epilepsy, traced it to the brain,...
The microbes in your gut influence how your immune system reacts to bacteria and viruses. Introduction Takeaways...
Oh, the marvelous wellness world. It never stops surprising us with all kinds of new products that...
Because, for me, the problem of internal worms was a very serious one, now I want to...
Charming family scenes in Victorian adverts for children’s medicines were in stark contrast to some of the...
In Ancient Greek texts, the king Lycaon is punished for misdeeds by being turned into a wolf....
Left: Sumerian medical clay tablet – Medical clay tablet from Nippur dated to about 2200 BC is...
The historical analyses of Thomas McKeown regarding global population growth from 1700 to the present stirred controversy,...
In ancient Mesopotamia the gods infused every aspect of daily life and this, of course, extended to health care....
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...
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...
The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wikimedia...
MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on...
Image by Pablo Blasberg As daylight saving time looms, researcher sheds light on health effects of not...
As many as 70 million Americans may not be getting enough sleep. Men get fewer hours of...
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...
Nurse B.K. Morris gives a flu shot to Winifred Quinn during a press event on the flu...
By (left-to-right) Dr. Gerardo Chowell, Dr. Cecile Viboud, and Dr. Lone Simonsen / 03.05.2018 Chowell: Professor...
Children at a school in Antananarivo, Madagascar, during a plague outbreak, Oct. 3, 2017. AP Photo/Alexander Joe By...
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”...
In the age of social media, fears and rumors about outbreaks and epidemics can quickly spread out...