Tag: medical

Originally published in 1895, the article below describes what it was like inside a dissecting room. What I found interesting was the description of how…

Are vaccines a medical delusion? That was a question being asked by the authors of an ad that appeared in various U.S. newspapers in 1919….

In the early 1900s, Germany was still executing the condemned with an axe and, like the French, they were also experimenting with the bodies immediately…

There was a huge kissing phobia in the early 1900s and it was recommended to use lemons and an antiseptic kissing screen if there was…

Have you ever had a tooth pulled? How about your wisdom teeth extracted? If you have, you know that the process is rather unpleasant, but…

Chang and Eng were siamese twins who toured Europe and the United States. Their condition aroused a lot of curiosity at the time and the…

Polio was originally called “infant paralysis.” The newspaper report below comes from 1922, 33 years before a safe vaccination was discovered and used on the…

How did people get malaria and where did it come from? Scientists in the 1800s and early 1900s were on a mission to find out…