In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to learn health and safety tips that our ancestors used to cope with the 1918 Flu Pandemic... (Read More)
Jane Hampton Cook writes about the Yellow Fever Epidemic that hit Philadelphia in 1793, very relevant in light of the current Coronavirus pandemic... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to find some of the weird medicines our ancestors used to take for a variety of ailments... (Read More)
An article about the 1925 dogsled relay when 20 mushers and 150 sled dogs combined to carry a batch of life-saving diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska... (Read More)
Elizabeth Blackwell became the first U.S. woman doctor on 23 January 1849 when she was awarded her Medical Degree by Geneva Medical College in New York... (Read More)
Gena Philibert-Ortega shows how, more than a century ago, Lydia Estes Pinkham used marketing techniques to promote her medicinal “vegetable compound.”.. (Read More)
Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, a three-year disaster that killed approximately 50 million people worldwide... (Read More)
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