Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918
This is super fascinating: But what about the survivors of what remains the single greatest mortality event ever recorded? New research published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests it was.
As always, natural disasters are really human-disasters, exacerbating preexisting inequalities that people don't want to talk about. With Covid, and for that matter with other communicable diseases such as tuberculosis,.
Well, this is certainly an interesting argument from the historian of medicine Melanie Kiechle. Does the pandemic mean that we need to take 19th century theories of medicine seriously again?.
Nurse Harriet Curley takes the pulse of a Navajo patient waiting in the dispensary of the Sage Memorial Hospital, an ultra-modern institution at the Ganado Mission, Arizona, a Presbyterian enterprise.
If you read the comments at LGM or anywhere else on the liberal internet, it's all doom and gloom, with commenters one upping each other in assuming the very worst.
The Spanish were able to conquer the Mexica (Aztecs) due to the smallpox wiping out Tenochtitlan between 1519-21. But in the writings that survived the Spanish conquest, there were guides.
I am not a historian of medicine. But as an environmental historian, I'm familiar enough with this cousin of my field to know the stories they tell well enough. And.
