Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? On...
Medicine
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...