Medical History Torment and Teeth 17 Aug 20203 Dec 2025 There's no sound you enjoy more, I know, than the resounding crack as a tooth puller, expert or otherwise, yanks free a partially decayed tooth from your sweet mouth. Now consider such a procedure sans those delightful…
Medical History The Manchester Mummy 17 Aug 20203 Dec 2025 One of my favorite topics to explore is the terrifying phenomenon of being buried alive (also delightfully known as vivisepulture). It remains one of our supreme dreads, and while for some premature…
Medical History The Utica Crib 17 Aug 2020 “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It has often been…
Medical History The Man With A Hole In His Stomach 16 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 Major discoveries in medicine can occur for different reasons. Some, the result of slow, careful work; aggregate studies and experiments done over time with methodical precision. Some advances however are made…
Medical History Genius & Insanity 13 Aug 2020 Genius can often come at the cost of deep rooted psychological disorders, and one such man, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), prophet of both theological revelation and neurological study, is such an example.…
Medical History Empire Of The Dead 13 Aug 202013 Aug 2020 What do you do when you have millions of bodies, some only partially decomposed, overflowing in a space no bigger than a few city blocks? The answer lies beneath the streets…
Medical History Two Million Corpses 12 Aug 2020 I often hear about young people who enjoy taking romantic sojourns to a nearby cemetery, proving the eternal and inextricable bond between fervent sexual ardor and the grim inevitability of death.…
Medical History The Monkey Mutiny of 1890 12 Aug 2020 Dear readers, I hope you'll forgive a lack of medically related anecdotes this week, in exchange for an absolute gem I found whilst perusing the Saturday 29th March, 1890 copy of the…
Medical History Morphine With Friends 12 Aug 20203 Dec 2025 The companionship of humans has always been of great interest to me in my studies, yet I have never really had need of it. That said, there is something to be…
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