Health Checks on History
Ming Yang, Caroline RanceHistory’s outbreaks, policies and turning points that built public health - and the lessons they keep teaching us.
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Islamic hospitals were built to last centuries
13th century painting depicting healers, caregivers and physicians treating a reclining patient. Source: Arabischer Maler um 1275
Bees, or cold war bioweapons?
Yellow speckles were found on leaves in Laos, Cambodia and the Thai border, which the US suspected the Soviet Union of supplying allied forces with bioweapons. A counterclaim was that they were the result of bee droppings on leaves. Source:...
Syphilis has no origin story
Syphilitic Man by Albrecht Dürer in 1496. This was one of the earliest known artistic representations of syphilis during the epidemic. The disease was believed at the time to have astrological causes.
What really killed Napoleon’s Grand Army
A painting by John Augustus Atkinson titled “Retreat of the French Grand Army from Moscow, intercepted by Russian Cossack, 1812”, published in January 1813. Source: McGill University Libraries, public domain.
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I’m an editor at Nature Medicine, working in epidemiology, public and global health. I write here to explore how history shapes the way we think about health today. Views are my own.
Historian, speaker and writer about the history of medicine - especially quacks and patent remedies. Also co-host of the literature podcast She Wrote Too.
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