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Showing posts with label Maladies and Treatments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maladies and Treatments. Show all posts
17 February 2009

Humans in Nature: Native American Medicine

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By Jennifer Mueller When Europeans came across the New World, they were presented with an entire new system of healing: new plants and new p...
31 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments: Asylum

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By Eliza Tucker Mental health has been a concern since ancient times, with accounts of insanity reaching as far back as 630-562 BC. In an in...
27 March 2008

Thursday Thirteen:
A Little Drink Can Kill You

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By Delia DeLeest The Volstead Act, aka Prohibition, did not prohibit the prescribing of intoxicating liquor for medicinal purposes. Problem ...
26 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Madness in a Bottle

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By Jennifer Linforth They were all dead. His pregnant wife had a bullet hole in her head and four year old Rose was killed when curiosity ro...
25 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Ancient Egypt

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By Jean Adams If you had to be ill in ancient times, the best place to do so would probably have been Egypt. Not that it would have been a p...
24 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Laudanum, The Miracle Drug

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By Vicki Gaia In my book, Eliza's Hope , I have a scene where one of my characters is taking laudanum. This was a very popular opium ba...
19 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Accidental Science

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By Carrie Lofty For generations, healers and physics (an early term for physicians) used natural cures that worked wonders for their patient...
18 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Medieval Bloodletting

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By Lisa Yarde One of the basic principles of medieval medicine was that four humors controlled the health of the human body. The balance bet...
17 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Healing with Urine

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By Sandra Schwab In the past human and animal urine was used for all kinds of things: for cleaning cloth and wool (even as late as 1966, the...
12 March 2008

Thursday Thirteen: Medical Reasons Why I'm glad I Live in 2008

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By Bonnie Vanak In a ballroom scene in my upcoming Egyptian historical, The Scorpion and the Seducer , the hero's mother cajoles him to ...

Maladies & Treatments:
The Budas of Abyssinia

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By Karen Mercury The Christian highlands of 19th c. Abyssinia were a hotbed of ills of the flesh, and an abundance of myths and superstition...
10 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Patent Medicines

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By Jacquie Rogers The labels carried wild promises but no list of ingredients. Patent medicines were ubiquitous in the 1800s, partly becaus...
04 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Florence Nightingale

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By Marianne LaCroix Florence Nightingale. It is a name we all recognize, but what exactly is so important about her? She is the woman who es...
03 March 2008

Maladies & Treatments:
Galen and Ancient Medicine

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By Michelle Styles One of the more interesting aspects that I always find when I am researching a historical period is the way medicine and ...