medicalhistory | tioedong's Tags

Weblog » Tags » medicalhistory (all)

Granddad has secrets

I was watching a youtube video where people's ancestors were investigated, and while discussing a person's great grandparents, it was noted that the great grandmother had three children die at an early age, and then went…
Monastic Herb gardens

Here, (I live in the Philippines) the local Showtime is finally showing the miniseries World Without End. I read the book, which is not as good as "Pilars of Earth", and takes place a hundred years later in the same mona…
Pot, Guns, and Frankinsense

From the UKMail: Cannabis makes pain more bearable instead of reducing it, say scientists yeah. similar to alcohol, where you "feel no pain".And we docs often use anti depressants in chronic pain so that the patient can…
medical headlines

A lot of hysteria over mercury in tooth fillings are found on the internet, but actually the real dangers of mercury poisoning are overlooked (e.g. what happens when a million mercury fluorescent light bulbs get thrown o…
nine Diseases that almost killed George Washington.

ah the good old days. When everyone wore romantic dresses, slaves (or servants) did all the dirty housework, and everyone was oh so polite. Right. From PBS: The nine deadly diseases that plagues George Washington. D…
Worms in the Mummies

When a couple weeks ago, a mummy was found to have ASCVD (Aka hardening of the arteries from high cholesterol) I wondered if any of the mummies had schistosomiasis. according the National Geographic the answer is yes, a…
Lepers in the past

There are a lot of arguments if the "lepers" of the Bible had Hanson's disease. I suspect they did, and were banished because the dirty little secret is that the disease is associated with an odor. I remember we had a…
The Native American Sisters of the Spanish American War

While reading articles about smallpox epidemics, I came across this factoid in an article about Native American women veterans, many of whom served as nurses in the US Military.Four Native American Catholic Sisters from…
Henry VIII: Syphilis, Mercury or just plain Mad?

ArcheologyNews reports that Henry VIII didn't die of a combination of syphillis, Obesity related diabetes and malaria, (and perhaps a bit crazy from cerebral syphilis and the mercury used back then to treat it). No, it…
Medical headlines that tell you the obvious

The Washington post discovers that patients can find a lot of medical nonsense on line. Well, duh. Every conspiracy theory known to man is on line. And the more outrageous, the more "hits" and readers you get. One "adv…