Medicine Blogs

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• Preventative Medicine: Why It’s Talked About More Than It’s Practiced — Preventative medicine is proven to work - so why does healthcare keep defaulting to treatment? We break down the real re
• Robbing the Doctor: 17th-Century Medics as Victims of Crime — I combed Old Bailey records to recover vivid stories of early modern medical practice. In 16th and 17th century London p
• Mad Dog (bites) and Englishmen: Early-modern remedies for Hydrophobia — I explore hydrophobia in early modern Britain, hunting manuscript recipes, newspapers and parish registers for recipes f
• Medical remedies from history that you wouldn’t consider today — Bizarre historical cures: mercury enemas, tobacco smoke resuscitation. Modern rejection reveals survivorship bias in med