
A terrible disease, a worse treatment
For millennia, breast cancer treatments were equal parts grisly and ineffective, until William Halsted came along
In medieval times, a bowl of blood advertised an unusual assortment of services
Dr Lulu Hunt Peters penned the first best-selling diet book ever when much of the world was slim on good sense
Frostbite ravaged untold armies, people and appendages until doctors warmed up to the right treatment