
Category: Medical History


Fanny Burney and Her Mastectomy

Sex, Contraception, and Abortion in Medieval England

Bones, Blood, Barbers, and Butchers: Surgeons in the 18th Century

Smallpox vs Edward Jenner: How One Doctor Invented Vaccination and Cured the World

Civil War Hospitals Were Enough to Make You Sick

“A Second St Domingo”: Sickness during the Walcheren Expedition of 1809

“A Cesspool in the Palace”: Prostitution and the Church in Medieval Southwark

Contraception in Ancient Egypt: Hormonal Birth Control, Pregnancy Tests, and Crocodile Dung
