During the American Revolution, more soldiers died from illness than from combat. This was the reality of the state of the art of medicine and would be so right up to World War I. By WWI, it wasn’t so much that medical science had advanced to such a degree as to reverse this situation as […]
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The date is July 18th, 1845. Anarcha visits Dr J Marion Sims who has recently fashioned the first speculum from a pewter spoon. It has been used just once, to relieve the pressure inside a young slave girl’s vagina. Anarcha, a 19 year old slave girl and recent mother, suffers from a horrible fistula in […]
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William Banting (1796 – 1878) was a London undertaker. Undertaker you say? And why would an undertaker be found on the pages of a site devoted to health and wellness? Though it is true that Frank Lloyd Wright said, “The physician can bury his mistakes.” that is not why we want to tell you about […]
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Biography , History of Medicine
You’re going to love this . . . and the surprise ending.
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His colleagues hated him and his patients loved him. Florence Nightingale, after Barry’s death would write: “I should say that he was the most hardened creature I ever met.”
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