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Medical Experiments

Swiftwater, Pennsylvania

Haunted Candle Shoppe of the Poconos

A candle shop hiding a haunted basement once used as a monkey research lab.

A 16th-century anatomical lecture in London.

Questionable Cure-Alls: Our Favorite Reads

Powdered hair, bile beans, and other old remedies you probably shouldn’t try.

Roxanne Hoorn February 7, 2025

Edward Jenner's letter to John Glover Loy.

objects of intrigue

Vaccination Could Easily Have Been Called 'Equination'

A recently sold letter from medical pioneer Edward Jenner provides some insight as to why.

Matthew Taub June 24, 2021

Vladimir Demikhov demonstrates, for an audience of experts, the implantation of an artificial heart–like device in a dog at the 18th International Congress of Surgery in Munich, on September 18, 1959.

How the United States and Soviet Union Embarked on a Macabre Surgical Arms Race

Cold War animal experimentation and the roots of transplantation medicine.

Brandy Schillace March 4, 2021

The feeding of chimpanzees on Monkey Island.

Marshall, Liberia

Monkey Island

After surviving decades of medical testing and civil wars, these chimpanzees were abandoned on their own islands.

A 17th-century cider press.

When the Cure for Poisonous Cider Was Hours of Bathtime

Doctors sent "Devonshire colic" patients to soak in the town of Bath.

Anne Ewbank August 19, 2019

The monument near the grave of Dr Horace Wells.

Hartford, Connecticut

Horace Wells Memorial

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

The head of Diogo Alves

Lisbon, Portugal

Preserved Head of Diogo Alves

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A customer in a candy store in Stockholm, 1946.

An Adorable Swedish Tradition Has Its Roots in Human Experimentation

How the Swedish custom of lördagsgodis, or Saturday candy, relates to tests at a 1940s mental institution.

Hana Glasser January 3, 2017