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History of Medicine
by ROSE FOSTER
Part 1: from bonobos to Lesbos
It took almost 6000 years for exercise to become respectable
From Paleo to the Fertile Crescent to Grain Brain and back
by TILKE ELKINS
It seems to be human is to suffer from depression — and women suffer more
by JACKIE ROSENHEK
The long evolution from lemon-soaked pessaries to the Pill
In medieval times, a bowl of blood advertised an unusual assortment of services
They say two heads are better than one, though not everyone would agree
Dr Lulu Hunt Peters penned the first best-selling diet book ever when much of the world was slim on good sense
How a shock to the heart jump-started emergency medicine
The way we look at The Change has certainly, well, changed
Cannibalism is hard to swallow, but honeyed humans were the medicines of yesteryear
Frostbite ravaged untold armies, people and appendages until doctors warmed up to the right treatment
How doctors managed to insert hope into the lives of couples worldwide — even if it took a few shady tricks along the way
Royal babymakers and their often miserable path to motherhood
For millennia, breast cancer treatments were equal parts grisly and ineffective, until William Halsted came along
