Medical History

Featured Excerpt: The Madness Pill

Patients and staff of the St. Louis City Insane Asylum sit in chairs or stand in doorways along a clean and neat hallway posing for the camera. Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

by Justin Garson

In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself.…
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The Search for the Madness Pill

Solomon H. Snyder

by Justin Garson

In the 1960s, the field of psychiatry was at a standstill. While some…
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Featured Excerpt: I Told You So!

Thomas Sydenham – English physician (1624–1689).

by Matt Kaplan

From Darwin to Pasteur to modern-day scientists, Matt Kaplan's I Told You So!…
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Silver Wedding

by Lydia Reeder

Harriot Kezia Hunt, from a 1910 publication. (Public domain,…
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Three Early Transplant Pioneers

by Paul Craddock

WCAG Heading Thanks to dazzling advances in xenotransplantation and stem cell research, transplant…
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America’s First Native American Doctor

by Joe Starita

WCAG Heading On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical…
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The End of Memory: Understanding the Spread Alzheimer’s

End of Memory
Wcag Heading by Jay Ingram Wcag Heading Chapter 10 – A Deadly Progression The prospect of…
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