Category Biography

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.…

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…

Elizabeth Blackwell, MD

1821 – 1910 Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England and came to America with her family in 1832. Her father, Samuel Blackwell, was a social reformer and an entrepreneur. His involvement in the abolition movement left little time for…

Beginning of the Low Carb Diet

William Banting and the First Low Carb Diet

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…