Medical History
Haunting Medical Practices From History
March 2, 2023
Think back to the first time you remember visiting a doctor’s office. All of the equipment looked so large and frightening, and the examination was definitely strange, but regardles...
55 Crazy Medical Practices Doctors Thought Made Sense
December 8, 2022
The human body is a mysterious machine. Most of the time, human babies develop according to plan, but sometimes, something goes weirdly wrong and the result is a cur...
55 Crazy Medical Practices Doctors Thought Made Sense
December 7, 2022
The human body is a mysterious machine. Most of the time, human babies develop according to plan, but sometimes, something goes weirdly wrong and the result is a curio...
Banned Medical Practices You Can't Unsee
November 28, 2022
The human body is a mysterious machine. Most of the time, human babies develop according to plan, but sometimes, something goes weirdly wrong and the result is a curious medical ...
55 Crazy Medical Practices Doctors Thought Made Sense
November 16, 2022
The human body is a mysterious machine. Most of the time, human babies develop according to plan, but sometimes, something goes weirdly wrong and the result is a curio...
Smallpox: The First Bioweapon
June 25, 2021
Smallpox is an extremely infectious and deadly disease, wiping out up to 30% of those unlucky enough to catch the virus. By the 1700s, people began figuring out how the disease spread an...
The History Of Anesthesia: How We Discovered Painkillers
September 29, 2020
Reenactment of the first operation under anesthesia (ether). The actual operation took place on October 16, 1846; this reenactment took place shortly afterwards. ...
Sleeping Beauty Syndrome And How It Takes Over Your Life
September 2, 2020
The Sleeping Beauty - Fairy tale by French author, Charles Perrault: 12 January 1628 16 May 1703. The scene where the Prince appears to the Sleeping beauty ,and...
1894: Two Scientists Discovered The Bacteria That Causes The Plague At The Same Time
August 25, 2020
Man being injected by doctor during an outbreak of bubonic plague in Karachi, India. Photograph, 1897. (Wellcome Collection/Wkimedia C...
'Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass': The Literal Meaning/Medical Practice Behind The Idiom
July 12, 2020
To "blow smoke" has had a few definitions over the years, and the end of the phrase (as well as its meaning) varies. You can "blow sm...
The Anti-Mask League Of 1919: The Anti-Masker Movement That Cost The Pandemic Thousands Of Lives
July 1, 2020
In 1918, the most deadly outbreak of influenza of the 20th century killed nearly 50 million people across the world and...
San Francisco's 1904 Black Plague Scare (And How It Was Covered Up)
May 14, 2020
South tower of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons) The bubonic plague is one of the most catastrophic disea...
The Polio Epidemic: A Brief History Of The 20th Century's Most Feared Disease
April 26, 2020
(Wellcome Images/Wikimedia Commons) In the early 20th century, polio was one of the most debilitating diseases to rock the planet. The illn...
How Every Pandemic In Human History Has Been Exactly The Same, On A Human Level
April 11, 2020
From the Black Plague to the flu of 1918, global pandemics have been affecting the vast population Earth for thousands of years. This kind of...
How We Tried To Contain Major Pandemics Throughout Recorded History
April 10, 2020
A nurse checking on a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital Flu Ward during the influenza pandemic, Washington, D.C., circa 1918. (Harris & Ewing/Underwo...
This Is How The Church Handled Easter During The Plague
April 9, 2020
Easter is one of those times when people who don't normally attend church services fill the pews, but in the time of a pandemic like COVID-19, this kind of gathering...
The History Of Quarantine: How Individual Actions Stopped Our Biggest Threats
April 6, 2020
With many cities, states, and even countries issuing "stay at home" orders to stop the spread of COVID-19, now might be a good time to look bac...
