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History of Medicine
by JACKIE ROSENHEK
Did postpartum depression transform a 14th-century peasant into a madwoman or a mystic? Postpartum depression has received a ...
Did a cook from a US military training base cause the great flu pandemic of 1918? 'Tis the ...
It wasn't until the 19th century that doctors mastered the ancient art of embalming If every ancient Egyptian ...
Urine was once the number-one way to diagnose disease -- and predict the future The science and art ...
Franz Mesmer captivated patients with both his charisma and crazy magnetic cures Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, ...
From ancient pharaohs to the kings of France, the upper crust loved their enemas Ah, the enema. Shooting ...
Was Jack the Ripper one of our very own? Since Lizzie Borden wielded her infamous axe 113 years ...
A morbid cottage industry sprung up around the corpse-crazy anatomists of yesteryear Once upon a time, nobody willed ...
Did a lady doctor in drag transform obstetric care in Ancient Greece? Some medical historians say the story ...
Undetectable and deadly, arsenic has always been a powerful ally Death by poison... it sounds almost romantic these ...
The search for safe smallpox inoculations ended in a barn Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Fly, the ...