
Category: Disease


Treating the (Last) Pandemic: Heroin, Aspirin, and The Spanish Flu

A Cure for (Anything) that Ails You: Cocaine in Victorian Medicine

Dreams of Love: Franz Liszt and la Dame aux Camélias

Ghouls’ Night Out: Sex, Death, and Damnation in Fin de Siècle Paris

Sex and the Asylum: Imprisoning Inconvenient Women

Drop Dead Gorgeous: 19th Century Beauty Tips for the Aspiring Consumptive

Pervitin, The People’s Drug: How Methamphetamine Fueled the Third Reich

Resurrection, Corpse Art, and How the Father of Modern Surgery Stole the Irish Giant
