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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Sometimes an idea is just too simple, too rational, and makes way too much sense to be put into practice because we are complicate, irrational, senseless beings most of the time. Just look around you.
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An introduction to the greatest killer on the planet: Cardiovascular disease. How we’ve looked at it, what we thought caused it, and why your parents are on all those damn drugs.
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Doctors don’t really know what causes high blood pressure, and the drugs they administer work only half the time.
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