27 Nov 2019
Cholera: A Panoply of Useless Remedies
Emily WinterEmily Winter is an archivist of everything from the miasmatic to the purulent.
Dubious Remedies
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) […]
27 Jan 2020
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JGJared Gardner is a professor and patient at the Ohio State University. jaredgardner.org
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