Syrups and electuaries were popular remedies for throat complaints from the 17th century onwards. Here are some...
Disease
The plague’s social and cultural impact has been compared to that of the Black Death that devastated...
The disease killed as much as one third of the population in some areas and devastated the...
They had sophisticated medical treatments at their fingertips – from preventative hygiene to prosthetics. Introduction The conventional...
How he chronicled, commemorated, and mourned his many loved ones who succumbed. This article, Petrarch’s Plague: Love,...
The Hittites recognized that disease was transmitted by contagion from one person to another. In the late...
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Introduction...
Deaths were justified by prevailing ideologies both in Westminster and among the British public. Chief Mato-tope of...
The German city-state was run by merchant families who put trade and economy above residents’ welfare. As...
The wide dissemination of the disease was brought about by the poor sanitary conditions of the city....
The nineteenth century is a decisive time in the development of medicine and the medical profession in...
The contradiction in his character is particularly well illustrated by his behavior during the Philadelphia yellow fever...
Examining what drugs were available in Russia and the great diversity of drugs traded in early modern...
The plague swept through Christian Europe and Islamdom at roughly the same time – between 1347 and...
Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the contemporary world’s...
Nurses have always been at the forefront during war, epidemics, and other times of disaster. May 12...
While there were economic consequences of the 1918 pandemic, most were found to be short-lived. Introduction The...
A little over a century ago, a different pandemic rattled the world when a third of the...
The purpose was to sell more quinine and to remind the world that the Dutch empire was...
Introduction The scientific work that led to the discovery of the causes of infections was possibly the...
Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in 1793. “A new order of things is rising in medicine, as well...
In Britain rabies was certainly known in 1000 CE and probably much earlier. Introduction On the 17th...
Eisenhower’s plan for controlling the flu epidemic at Camp Colt helped establish health care protocols later adopted...
Information was scarce, conflicting, and often exaggerated. In November 1889, a rash of cases of influenza-like-illness appeared...
The close of the 19th century also witnessed dramatic discoveries in the new science of bacteriology that...
The costumes were meant to combat the contagious miasma. This article, Plague Doctor Costumes, was originally published...
This article, London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665), was...
Mary Mallon is perhaps the most prominent example in the U.S. of the unknowing disease carrier. Introduction...
Leprosy and compulsory segregation were connected through the ‘colonial gaze’. Abstract This article is looking at colonial...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...