“Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.” Moliere The Revolutionary war is ended, a new century is begun, our first president has passed away and we are the Democratic Republic in the modern world. So, what are your options if you become ill? If you lived in the cities your first […]
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Mercury, the element, not the planet, was nicknamed “quicksilver” because it is silver in color and a liquid at room temperature. In German, the word is “quacksalber.” Mercury is a toxic heavy metal. In the fifteen hundreds, physicians were a highly untrained lot, having learned most of their trade as apprentices. Herbalism was the medicine […]
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Biography , History of Medicine
A brilliant woman (the first two receive 2 Nobel Prizes) who gave us radium and and came to the conclusion it could cure cancer, though it ended up being the bane of many who wound up in an early grave.
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You will NOT believe when the first government instituted mandate concerning health care was issued. You will not believe it.
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How we got the health care we got instead of the health care we need. This story will just make you sick. Though it should be made into a movie.
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The history of medicine has always been the history of alternative medicine, for every new idea, every new theory, every new method of healing has come not from within the bastions of conventional medicine, but rather from outside the current convention. Being the hippopotomonstrosity that medicine is and always has been, its members do not […]
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