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History of Medicine
by JACKIE ROSENHEK
Chickenpox and smallpox aren’t the same thing, but it took over 200 years to figure that out
From inhalants and injections to tinctures and tonics, all have been employed over the eons by physicians to ...
Medieval medicine's version of anesthesia was oftenworse than surgery itself
Can making contact with a monarch heal scrofula or was that just a 17th-century superstition?
Is spontaneous human combustion a myth or a supernatural medical mystery?
The infamous plague doctors of the Middle Ages were a fearsome sight
The famous medical journal was the brainchild of a radical reformist
Why one man’s whale poop is another’s medical gold
How mosquitoes and malaria met their match
by FRANÇOIS MAI
From pop music to politics, the iconic composer has shaped the cultural landscape for 182 years
McGill’s own Dr Charles Drew fought racism to create the world’s first blood bank
Robert Burton discussed depression in a whole new way... back in 1621
by DR JOHN COCKER
Was Dr John Bodkin Adams a fraudster, a serial killer or a darn good FM?
The first stethoscope was a simple tube, but docs soon discovered that two earpieces were twice as nice
How the lumbar puncture came to be one of medicine’s most precious diagnostic procedures
