For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years...
Medicine
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...
Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron. By Amy Lifson A...
Sforza was an early scientist who experimented with chemistry and medicine. By Amy Lifson Caterina Sforza, the...
In this period, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went hand in hand with...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
Looking beyond an initial impression to dissect what is happening beyond the surface in particular historical contexts....
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
Eighteenth-century medical practitioners faced menaces like cholera, dysentery, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, syphilis, typhus, typhoid, tuberculosis, and...
Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? On...
Examining the death, and the life, of Florence Nightingale, the great nursing heroine of the Crimean War....
Staring at bloodied soldiers in a train station one fateful April day, Clara Barton rolled up her...
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....
Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni’s Hidayat al-muta’allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled...
Rebecca Rego Barry on Dr. David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and...
Almost everything we know about Dr. Lionel Wafer comes from his own pen. He enters the historical...
The spread of yellow fever was a result of complex ecological and demographic changes produced by the...
Recent phylogenetic analyses suggest that the yellow fever virus is approximately 1,500 years old. In many environmental...
Many diseases have affected the outcomes of battles or the political leanings of a country, but few...
Alexander the Great’s cause of death has been contentious since antiquity. By Nathan Gamble (left) and...