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Show & Tell: The Radio Guy’s Collection of Scary-Looking Headgear

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medicine

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

The history of unpleasant odor, or miasma, has unexpected relevance in the time of COVID-19.
Daniela Blei April 8, 2020
The exterior of Raeapteek
Tallinn, Estonia

Raeapteek

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.
An herbal hotpot with black chicken and turtle.
Chengdu, China

Qin Shan Zhai

Every dish at this restaurant claims to have a health benefit.
According to Inquisition records, men were often fearful that women would slip magic potions into their morning hot chocolate.
witchcraft

The Chocolate-Brewing Witches of Colonial Latin America

The Inquisition persecuted women who used cacao to entice lovers and spurn enemies.
Reina Gattuso January 27, 2020
Like needles, medical leeches can be used only once. After they've done their job, they're thanked for their service, given a lethal dose of ethanol, and incinerated as "medical waste."
hospitals

The Leech's Journey, From Welsh Lab to American Hospitals

Disgusting? Sure. But invaluable in today's post-surgical ward.
Bradley Allf January 17, 2020
Museo de Anatomopatología
Mexico City, Mexico

Museo de Anatomopatología (Museum of Pathological Anatomy)

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.
Banting House.
London, Ontario

Banting House

The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.
Mount Airy, North Carolina

Siamese Twins Museum

This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."
The Weston State Hospital, once (and again) known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
abandoned

A Cultural Historian Explores an Old Mental Hospital, and Why They Scare Us

They are haunted, but not by ghosts.
Troy Rondinone October 31, 2019
Austen's observations about grisly dental procedures might make your mouth hurt.
literature

For Sale: Jane Austen’s Wince-Inducing Descriptions of 19th-Century Dentistry

In a letter to her sister, the novelist politely recounts a grisly scene.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 16, 2019
medieval

A New Crusade

How the mysterious, millennium-old, stateless Order of Malta outlived its contemporaries and established a place in the modern Middle East.
Ariel Sophia Bardi September 29, 2019
Donor Memorial.
Birmingham, Alabama

Donor Memorial

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.
Inside the National Speleotherapy Clinic in Belarus, where treatments are carried out in an active salt mine nearly 1,400 feet underground.
soviet architecture

On Vacation in Soviet-Era Sanatoriums

The treatments are no longer mandatory, but they're still available.
Anika Burgess August 19, 2019
The museum's colonial building.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico

Museo de la Medicina Maya (Mayan Medicine Museum)

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.
The pillow sham was celebratory and a little cheeky.
objects of intrigue

In the 1890s, Female Medical Students Embroidered a Yearbook on a Pillow Sham

The newly minted doctors had deft handiwork.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 26, 2019
Wilson Greatbatch's tool box.
Clarence, New York

Greatbatch Barn

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.
hoaxes

Why Historians Are Reexamining the Case of the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits

Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
Sabrina Imbler July 3, 2019