15 Jan 2020
Edward Jenner and the World’s First Vaccine
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
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27 Nov 2019
Cholera: A Panoply of Useless Remedies
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
22 Oct 2019
Quacks Galore!
Pillbox (Edward William John Hopley), Quack: An Ignorant Pretender, [1838], Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine Why do we call a person who promotes fradulent or harmful medicine under the guise of medical expertise a “quack”? The term comes from the 17th century Middle Dutch kwaksalver: a combination of kwaken (to brag, boast, or croak) […]
2 Oct 2019
Cholera: Poverty, Urbanity, and Immigration
The threat cholera posed was not limited to the population’s health, but extended into political and social concerns of the era. When cholera arrived via Britain’s harbors and waterways in 1832, the disease swept across a nation agitated by political unrest and a deeply divided class system. The working population, disenfranchised and without democratic representation, […]
7 Sep 2019
Cholera: Overview
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
2 Mar 2020
Gout: The Disease of Kings
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
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