Ancient DNA
At 75, I’m enormously bored with life. My eyes are not good . . . can’t read for more than a few minutes. I love world literature, just can’t do it anymore. So I’ve become a cinephile. A movie lover.…
Category History of Medicine
Self Experimentation
It was the cover image (above) that got me started on this subject. You see, people constantly and consistently post memes such as this with no context. The context missing from this particular meme is that no animal or human…
Robert Liston—Scottish Surgeon (1794-1847)
Twitter is being destroyed (undermined) by its spoiled rich owner, but I’ve still found lots of mentors there. This entire article has been lifted directly off of Twitter, and I’m unable to reference the author’s name since the account belongs…
The Maverick MD
There is a book out that everyone needs to read. Why? Because it’s a whack upside the head and once in a while we all need a good whack upside the head. It’s about a man who cured cancer, Dr…
A Brief History of Human Experiments
There are many more black marks in our American history than the recent abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. Far too many. Sadly, many of them were perfectly legal. Did you know that your government has the right to experiment on…
The History of Vitamins
(and a short history of scurvy, beriberi, and pellagra) Our knowledge of the chemical composition of vitamins and their importance in nutrition is relatively young, whereas the history of vitamin deficiencies goes back centuries. Scurvy is probably the first illness…