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Tales from the past

A look back at the history of medicine and health.

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A replica pump stands in Broadwick Street today as a monument to a pioneering moment in epidemiology

John Snow and the Pump Handle of Public Health

10 Aug 2021
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CholeraEducational
Soldiers in a World War One medical facility

A Deadly Alliance – War and the Pandemic Influenza of 1918

30 Jul 2021
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Iron Lungs: Polio patients at a medial ward.

The Iron Lung

1 Jul 2021
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A 1909 depiction of Mary Mallon, known as “Typhoid Mary,” published in the New York American

The tragedy of Typhoid Mary

18 Jun 2021
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Volunteer with a portable vaccine carrier Credit: Gavi/2006/Indras Getachew

Keeping vaccines cool with cold chain

31 May 2021
5 min read
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The four Yellow Fever Commission doctors who proved yellow fever’s link with mosquitoes: top (L-R) Jesse Lazear; Aristides Agramonte; bottom (L-R)Walter Reed; James Carroll.”

Yellow Fever and the Panama Canal

27 May 2021
6 min read
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Arch Street Wharf, where the first cases in the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic were spread

How Yellow Fever decimated the USA’s first capital

21 May 2021
5 min read
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EducationalYellow fever
Advert for the Anti-Mask Meeting held in San Francisco in 1919; Credit: SF Chronicle

Masking Trouble

12 May 2021
5 min read
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Image courtesy of Sotheby’s, © Sotheby’s 2021

An Indian Queen’s “Vaccine Selfie” in Oils

26 Apr 2021
5 min read
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Alexander M. Ross' late 19th Century magazine "The Anti-Vaccinator"

Ye Olde Anti-Vaxxers

14 Apr 2021
5 min read
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Stuttgart, Wuerttembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Don. C I 12, A, Blatt 39r

The World’s First Vaccination Campaign

12 Apr 2021
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Louis Pasteur portrait – 5 French banknotes 1966

The age of modern vaccines: An Abridged History of Vaccines, Part 2

7 Apr 2021
9 min read
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