History of Medicine

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The Medieval Key Workers
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Shark Tales: the oldest shark attack, the shark attack survivor who became a lord mayor, and the shark that solved a crime
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How that *one* thing we all 'know' about Egyptian Mummies might be wrong
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Ice and a slice (of history): the story of the G&T
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History rhymes: two Prime Ministers, two pandemics
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Super Spreaders: The Story of 'Typhoid Mary'
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The Truthtellers: Li Wenliang & Ignaz Semmelweis
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Mouldy Mary and the Cantaloupe
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Casting the dye: the first antibiotics
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Bald’s Leechbook: Going (pre) medieval on superbug
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Opium: A trip through history
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Two snakes or one? How we get the symbol for Medicine wrong
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When mental health robbed England of its king for over a year
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#FOAMPubMed 1: Lemons and Limes, the first clinical trial and how to make a research question
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Hippocrates to Helsinki: Medical Ethics
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Not to be sneezed at: How we found the cause of hay fever
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Medical school medieval style
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The world’s first forensic scientist
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Those who cannot remember the past: how we forgot the first great plague and how we're failing to remember lessons with Ebola
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There is nothing new under the sun: the current New York measles epidemic and lessons from the first 'anti-vaxxers'
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Sweating Sickness: England’s Forgotten Plague
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The Most Famous Case Report Ever
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Mass Hysteria & Moral Panic: The Dancing Plagues and #Momo
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Flogging, Bellows, Barrels, Smoke Up the Bum and Abraham Lincoln - Early CPR
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Smallpox: the Giants' Shoulders Edward Jenner Stood on to Overcome 'The Speckled Monster'
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How 'The Unknown Woman of the Seine' became 'Resusci Anne'
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The Story behind Gray's Anatomy (the real one)
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The Wound Man: From Textbook to Emblem and Hollywood
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How Saline Earned its Salt
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