You Must Have Holes in Your Head
Say you’re an anthropologist and say you’re on a dig in a remote part of the world and say you come across some ancient graves, and say that a few of the skulls found in those ancient graves have holes…
Category History of Medicine
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…
San Francisco Winter 1918-1919
I had to stop writing our article on the Spanish Flu before getting into the second wave. My PTSD was ablaze and I was about to self-destruct if I kept on course. You see, these are not numbers to me.…
The Spanish Flu
The image above is from the hospital at Camp Funston, in Fort Riley, Kansas, or “ground zero” for America’s greatest pandemic. Go ahead and forget that “fact,” because you’re about to get one heck of an education. What is Influenza…
History of Medicine — The Revolutionary War
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…
History of Medicine 1800-1850
“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…