Medicine – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:41:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Medicine – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Great Battle between George Washington and His Dentures https://brewminate.com/the-great-battle-between-george-washington-and-his-dentures/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:37:55 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=102129 The British were a pain, to be sure, but what really caused him trouble were his teeth. Introduction

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]]> Medicine in Classical Antiquity https://brewminate.com/medicine-in-classical-antiquity/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:03:19 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=134334 From the earliest times, treatments involved incantations, invoking the gods , and the use of magical herbs, amulets,

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]]> Medicine in the Middle Ages https://brewminate.com/medicine-in-the-middle-ages-2/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:02:49 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=134340 In the second century, Origen wrote, “For those who are adorned with religion use physicians as servants of

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]]> The Medieval Medical Response to the ‘Black Death’ https://brewminate.com/the-medieval-medical-response-to-the-black-death/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:08:53 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=143180 The Black Death served to promote medical innovations that laid the foundations of modern medicine. By Joseph A.

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]]> Simon Forman: Elizabethan Quack Physician, Astrologer, Alchemist https://brewminate.com/simon-forman-elizabethan-quack-physician-astrologer-alchemist/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:02:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=168460 Forman’s casebooks reveal details of his thousands of clients, and his diary provides an invaluable insight into the

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]]> Still Wondering Whether You Should Get One of Those Home DNA Tests? https://brewminate.com/still-wondering-whether-you-should-get-one-of-those-home-dna-tests/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:04:35 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=166566 The verdict is in: the possible rewards significantly outweigh any possible downsides. Most people searching a DNA ancestry

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]]> Big Pharma Spends Big to Block Drug Price Controls https://brewminate.com/big-pharma-spends-big-to-block-drug-price-controls/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 18:16:06 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=165289 The pharmaceutical industry targeted key lawmakers to thwart attempts to contain drug costs. By Victoria Knight, Rachana Pradhan

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]]> The GOP and Big Pharma Plot to Kill Drug Price Reforms https://brewminate.com/the-gop-and-big-pharma-plot-to-kill-drug-price-reforms/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 18:15:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=165293 Drug industry lobbyists are “urging Republican senators to scuttle the drug-pricing language”. The pharmaceutical industry and its allies in

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]]> School Vaccine Mandates since the 19th Century https://brewminate.com/school-vaccine-mandates-since-the-19th-century/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:29:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=164176 Laws tying school attendance to vaccination go back to the 1800s. Introduction The ongoing battles over COVID-19 vaccination

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]]> Viruses Are Both the Villains and the Heroes of Life https://brewminate.com/viruses-are-both-the-villains-and-the-heroes-of-life/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:28:48 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=164190 Viruses are also genetic innovators – and possibly the pioneers of using DNA as the genetic blueprint of

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