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Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

WEBThe Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, one of the largest medical libraries in the world, serves the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard …

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Flower Power Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

WEBJanuary 24, 2019. Detail from a painting of David Hosack’s Elgin Garden, artist unknown, ca. 1810 — Source. IIn 1797, fifteen-year-old Philip Hamilton was burning up with an …

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Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (ca. 1353)

WEBThe art of keeping ourselves entertained while quarantined dates back many centuries. In 1349, following a bubonic plague epidemic that killed more than half the …

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Medical Imagery of the 15th Century — The Public Domain Review

WEBThe following images are all taken from Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen Medizinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des …

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Source: Augustus C. Long Health Science Library

WEBThe Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library is a part of Columbia University Irving Medical Center and serves the faculty, staff, and students in the Vagelos College of …

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Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern …

WEBBenjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris …

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Troubled Waters Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine

WEBFrom cabbage green to course meal, medieval manuscripts exhibit a spectrum of colours and consistencies when describing urine. Katherine Harvey …

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Sniffles and Sneezes (1955) — The Public Domain Review

WEBSniffles and Sneezes (1955) A 1950s "Health and Safety for You" educational film shows how the common cold is spread not just by sneezing and coughing, but …

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Eastern Sports and Western Bodies

WEBAlthough largely forgotten today, exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century. Daniel Elkind explores the rise of the phenomenon in the US, and how …

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Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

WEBPublished in 1833, Dentologia was written by Solyman Brown, who helped found the first dental journal, society, and school in the United States. Known in his …

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Plague Doctor Costumes — The Public Domain Review

WEBThe invention of the plague doctor costume, complete with beaked mask, is credited to the French physician Charles de Lorme (1584–1678), who’s thought to have …

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Picturing Pregnancy in Early Modern Europe

WEBWhen the womb began to appear in printed images during the 16th century, it was understood through analogy: a garden, uroscopy flask, or microcosm of the …

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The Legend of the Divine Farmer — The Public Domain Review

WEBThe earliest written record connecting Shen Nong to the practice of Chinese herbal medicine is found in the Huai Nan Zi (淮南子), or ‘The Masters of Huainan’, the …

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The Silent Treatment Solitary Confinement’s Unlikely Origins

WEBCharacterised today by the noise of banging, buzzers, and the cries of inmates, solitary confinement was originally developed from Quaker ideas about the …

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“Invisible Little Worms” Athanasius Kircher’s Study of the Plague

WEBLiving through the devastating Italian plague of 1656, the great polymath Athanasius Kircher turned his ever-enquiring mind to the then mysterious disease, …

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Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922)

WEBA year after the Swiss psychiatrist Walter Morgenthaler published his 1921 monograph on the life and artwork of Adolf Wölfli (a schizophrenic patient in his care), …

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When Chocolate was Medicine Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour

WEBPublished. January 28, 2015. Poseidon taking chocolate from Mexico to Europe, a detail from the frontispiece to Chocolata Inda by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, 1644 — …

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The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell (1908)

WEBThe x-rays collected below come from Dr. Ludovic O’Followell’s Le Corset (1905–1908), the first volume of which contains an abridged history of the garment, the …

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