The Quack Doctor
Caroline Rance, Ming YangStories from the history of medicine, with an inclination towards the strange.
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Lash Lure and the FDA's chamber of horrors
Lash Lure packaging. US Food and Drug Administration.
17 May 1933: Hazel Musser was looking forward to the banquet that evening. She had worked hard all year for the Fairview Elementary Parent-Teacher Association, organising fundraising ev...
The medieval book nobody can read
Fold out of the Voynich manuscript depicting large circular diagrams of unknown interpretation (page 158).
Authors’ note: This is a collaborative post researched and written by Ming Yang and Caroline Rance. The same article is published on...
'We are now making our usual getaway': the Advanced Medical Science Institute's miraculous machines
Kentucky businessman Xavier W. Wittman (1880-1959) saw a lot of potential in X-rays. Doctors might get excited about their emerging medical applications, but for him X-rays offered something even better – the chance to get rich quick.
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On sledge and horseback ... to scandal
‘I may be called an enthusiast, or a woman who bids high for the world’s applause, but I care not what I am called or what I am thought of, so long as the goal of my ambition be reached.’
Kate Marsden, On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Si...
The Brinkerhoff System
If you wanted to make a quick buck in the late 19th-century US, becoming an itinerant healer had its appeal. Depending on your moral fibre (or lack thereof), you might sell a useful medicine and gain a good reputation, offer mysterious heal...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Historian, speaker and writer about the history of medicine - especially quacks and patent remedies. Also co-host of the literature podcast She Wrote Too.
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.
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